Priscilla Jebaraj

POZNAN (POLAND): At the U.N. climate talks which finished in the early hours of Saturday, the divide between rich and poor nations was obvious in their differing views of what has been achieved here.

Priscilla Jebaraj

By Marianne de Nazareth

Oxfam erected 10 human ice sculptures to remind negotiators of the impact climate change is already having, on poor people around the world...

POZNAN: The high-level segment of the 14th meet of the UN climate convetion (COP-14) began on Thursday in the background of distrust and suspicion that has dogged this meeting from day one.

Mary Robinson, Margot Wallstr

The classical have and have not divide is destined to turn the climate change summit here into a failure. Forget identifying the elements that would be negotiated in Copenhagen next winter, there is a strong possibility that rich industrialized countries or Annex 1 countries could even tinker with the set principles of UN

The global negotiations, under way in Poznan (Poland) on working out a successor to the Kyoto protocol on climate change that expires in 2012, have been strategically mistimed, and it would be a surprise if they delivered any satisfactory build-up to the final Copenhagen conference scheduled for a year from now.

Jyoti Parikh / New Delhi December 10, 2008, 0:55 IST

A liability framework for adaptation funds should be set up by linking payments with emissions.

Priscilla Jebaraj