Climate Change

Durban challenge

India faces the onerous task of balancing equity and environmental efficacy in the climate talks. It must not repeat the blunder that led to the Copenhagen disaster.

Publication Date: 
16/12/2011
Praful Bidwai
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Climate Change, India, COP 17 (Durban Summit), South Africa, Green House Gases, Global Warming, IPCC, Carbon Dioxide, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea
Climate Change

Time-out

The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and acrimonious, as the world desperately searched for new ways to avoid the toughest of questions—how to drastically reduce emissions to keep the world somewhat within safe levels and how to do this while ensuring equity. With uneasy answers, the easy solution was to push the world to another round of messy negotiations for a new treaty, protocol or legal instrument or something like that.

Publication Date: 
16/12/2011
Sunita Narain, Chandra Bhushan, Souparno Banerjee, Indrajit Bose, Uthra Radhakrishnan
Down to Earth
20
15
12-22
Tags:
Climate Change, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), CSE, Climate Equity, Climate Mitigation, COP 17 (Durban Summit), Emissions Trading
Air Pollution

New Mexico City Buses Cut Pollution, Generate Cash

Mexico City's sleek new public bus system is attracting significant international funding in carbon credit sales, part of the capital's ongoing effort to reduce pollution and green up its smoggy im

Publication Date: 
16/12/2011
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Mexico, Public Transport, Buses, Air Pollution Control, Green House Gases, Carbon Market, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Offset, Climate Change, COP 17 (Durban Summit), European Union (EU), Developing Countries
Climate Change

Carbon credit market sags even after Durban climate talks

Emission reduction certificate prices at record lows, reflect question marks on the climate change policy.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2011
Rajesh Bhayani & Piyali Mandal
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
COP 17 (Durban Summit), India, Canada, Kyoto Protocol, Russia, Industry, Japan, Europe, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Copenhagen Green Climate Fund, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), UNFCCC, Environment, Certified Emission Reduction, Climate Change
Climate Change

Durban maps path to climate treaty

Marathon talks enable Europe to break deadlock over global-warming deal with major greenhouse-gas emitters.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2011
Jeff Tollefson
Nature
480
7377
299-300
Tags:
Climate Change, India, European Union (EU), COP 17 (Durban Summit), Climate Agreements, Global Warming, Green House Gases, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Kyoto Protocol, Developing Countries, Cap And Trade, China, Climate Mitigation, Agriculture
Climate Change

Watching the players at the climate poker table

In two decades of covering climate-change negotiations, Frank McDonald, has seen youthful hope fight dark forces, and a distant threat become a reality.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2011
Frank McDonald
Nature
480
7377
293
Tags:
Climate Change, UNFCCC, Conference Of Parties, Kyoto Protocol, South Africa, COP 17 (Durban Summit), India, China, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)
Climate Change

The mask slips

The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
15/12/2011
Nature
480
7377
292
Tags:
Climate Change, COP 17 (Durban Summit), Climate Science, UNFCCC, South Africa, Emission Targets, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Agreements
Climate Change

European crisis to keep carbon prices under check

The wait might get longer for Indian companies anticipating a rebound in carbon credit prices.

Publication Date: 
14/12/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Europe, Climate Change, COP 17 (Durban Summit), Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Emissions Trading, Economy, China, Developing Countries, UNFCCC
Climate Change

Canada pulls out of Kyoto, deals blow to climate talks

Toronto Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.

Environment minister Peter Kent said Monday that Canada is invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto doesn't represent the way forward for Canada or the world.

Publication Date: 
14/12/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Canada, Kyoto Protocol, Japan, Russia, Global Warming, COP 17 (Durban Summit), Green House Gases, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Energy, Climate Change
Climate Change

Durban deal may do little to cool heating planet

The world is forecast to grow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even more destruction and the new deal struck by governments in Durban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do lit

Publication Date: 
13/12/2011
Reuters
Tags:
COP 17 (Durban Summit), Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Green House Gases, Pollution, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, China, Coal, Developing Countries, Europe, United States Of America (US), Japan, India, Poverty

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