Blame bankers not oil for climate impasse
<p> </p> <p><em>It's time the green brigade joins the banker-bashing, Occupy Wall Street movement</em></p> <p>Another climate summit and another potential disappointment facing the green brigade.
Climate Change
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Energy politics (part 1): BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: will it force change?
<p>As I watched President Barack Obama speak on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico many thoughts crossed my mind. <br />
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More on the Copenhagen Accord: US vs India (part 1)
<p>Three negotiation related documents that I have been sitting on, which need to be put on public record, are:</p>
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More on the Copenhagen Accord: US vs India (part 2: India's response)
<p>India’s response: point by point and blunt<br /> <br /> For once, India’s submission to the climate secretariat (AWG-LCA) was blunt and took on the US head on.</p>
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Cancun must not repeat Copenhagen
<p>Developing countries must guard against a repeat of the situation at Copenhagen, where negotiations under the UNFCCC were deliberately stalled, and Heads of State/Ministers from developing countries were pressured to agree to “something” to save the climate regime from collapse.
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Why a butterfly can destroy a behemoth
<h1><a class="l" href="http://www.google.co.in/url?q=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/11/23/stories/2010112353020100.htm&sa=X&ei=e5_rTN6uKIK6vwPVibnZAQ&ved=0CDAQ-AsoAjAB&usg=AFQjCNGR6he6ZoBpwDyOKhgO3sT3vwsf8A" a="true">Navi Mumbai airport gets 'green' signal</a></h1> <p><em>- Business Line, 23 November 2010</em></p> <p> </p>
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Cancun musing
<p>I have reached Cancun few hours’ back to attend the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP-16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have been greeted with news that can only be characterised as bad or worse.</p>
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First impressions
<p>How does the UNFCCC select its various locations for its annual climate change meets? What I am hinting at is, why Cancun? Why, for that matter, Copenhagen, Poznan or Bali? I have been told that cities vie for the honour, just like a sporting event such as the Olympics or the Asiad, and pay for it. <br /> <br />
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Word Games
<p>On my last couple of days in Cancun, while vestiges of the sense of despondency and low achievement of the initial days remain, Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh's impromptu statement on "binding commitments" and "appropriate legal form" has jerked many pundits -- especially those from the subcontinent -- up.
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The Protocol in dispute
<p>The post-2012 emissions reduction commitments for Annex 1 countries under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) are presently going nowhere. Japan had fired the first salvo when in the opening plenary, it categorically stated its opposition to the second commitment period of KP. Now, countries like Australia, Canada, and some European nations have joined the chorus to disband KP.</p>
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Cancun, Climate negotiations and the national interest
<p>The time has come to develop a national consensus, define the national position and determine red lines for future negotiations, otherwise we risk endangering our future growth prospects.<br />