Because, after lots of build-up, Copenhagen failed to yield an accord that was officially adopted, die-hard optimists clapped at Cancun.

THE latest cache of WikiLeaks cables point to the increasing synergy between the United States and India on climate change and trade issues.

In a cable sent to the US administration soon after the Copenhagen summit, its ambassador here pointed to a shift in New Delhi

Meena Menon

The climate talks ended with uncertainty over the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol and no agreement on binding emission reductions.

The difference between optimists and pessimists is that the optimists have more fun, joked Elias Freig-Delgado, a member of Mexico's Ministry of Finance Special CO {-2} Task Force and the working groups of the U.N.

Oleg Deripaska

Even as national governments resist concessions at climate talks, business leaders are not waiting to act.

Cooperation at the regional level, such as that between Russia and China, demonstrates there is will to combat climate change

Of all the sources of clean energy, it is hydro-electricity, a mature technology, which holds the greatest promise

It is easy to be disheart

The US has set a very low bar and has everyone else racing to the bottom to keep pace with it
Shyam Saran / December 15, 2010, 0:05 IST

The Cancun Climate Change Conference concluded on December 11 with a raft of

With an extension of the Kyoto Protocol appearing bleak and in absence of any legally binding commitment by the participating nations on mandatory carbon emission caps in the Cancun agreement at the annual UN climate talks, experts fear a crash in the carbon market, one which could make a tangible impact on India

The Cancun climate negotiations stretched, as now customary, into the early hours of the day after its scheduled end. The events of the final day were far less acrimonious than one would have expected after Copenhagen. Indeed, had it not been for the pesky Bolivian delegation repeatedly drawing attention to the lack of ambition in the

Has India yielded without securing any benefit?

Was it poor strategy or smart tactics? India