IT is beyond doubt that Bangladesh is one of the badly affected countries from the impacts of climate change. Therefore, it is no more any fashion rather an imperative to call for effective measures for combating climate change.

The world can ill afford to haggle over climate change

Brahma Chellaney

Climate change has been correctly identified as a threat multiplier. Yet it has already become a divisive issue, with the danger that the rich nations' efforts to lock in their advantages by revising the 1992 Rio bargain and rejigging their Kyoto Protocol obligations through a new regime could create another global divide between haves and have-nots

The climate-change prime minister loses some green points

A much sounder approach than Kyoto and its successor would be to invest more in research and development of zero-carbon energy technologies

ONE of the first things Kevin Rudd did as Prime Minister was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to bring Australia into line with most of the world on climate change. It was a gesture loaded with good intentions and purpose. Yesterday the Government released its green paper on how to tackle global warming. In the face of this "daunting reality" as Climate Change Minister Penny Wong described it yesterday, how has Canberra reacted? It has spoken loudly and carried a small stick

Environmentalists are seething after the administration of US president George W Bush delayed any decision on regulating greenhouse gases, likely leaving any substantive action to his successor. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a 588-page report Friday that cites