Zambia: Worldwide Climate Indaba Timely
ZAMBIA has been awarded the opportunity to become the first African country to host the board meeting of the Worldwide Green Climate Fund (GCF). In this regard, Zambia is expected to share its experience
COP 17 (Durban Summit)
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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 image.
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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. THE climate conference in Durban, South
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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
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The mask slips
The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds. (Editorial)
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Durban maps path to climate treaty
Marathon talks enable Europe to break deadlock over global-warming deal with major greenhouse-gas emitters.
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Carbon credit market sags even after Durban climate talks
Emission reduction certificate prices at record lows, reflect question marks on the climate change policy. To the surprise of the carbon trading market, prices of carbon emission reduction (CER) certificates
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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.
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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.
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European crisis to keep carbon prices under check
The wait might get longer for Indian companies anticipating a rebound in carbon credit prices. A weak European economy coupled with an oversupply of carbon credits will keep carbon prices under check in
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Indian companies stand to gain
SAIL, ONGC, Adani Power, Delhi Metro among gainers. The Indian industry has reasons to cheer the outcome of the just-concluded Durban climate change talks, which announced the extension of the UN carbon