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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The politics of calling GHGs as pollutants
<p>Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA), on December 7, 2009 announced to the world that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people, and therefore, can be considered an air pollutant under the US’s Clean Air Act. The US is now the first country in the world to call GHGs air pollutants. </p>
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Solar lighting - No time to wait for grid or government
Less than a kilometer from Asia's largest Solar Termal plant, west of Bikaner, Rajasthan, lives the farmer Sabhu Khan. His hamlet is still unreached by the grid. Instead of the grid connection, he decided
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Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon
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Lanco's allies
Jonas Hamberg stumbles on fictitious companies dealing in public funds. It was all there on the Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation (RREC) website—names of companies, addresses and phone numbers. But
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Global Sustainable Development Goals: The Unresolved Questions for Rio+20
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Preparations for the Rio+20 United Nations conference on sustainable development have begun, but the first round of
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New business for new renewables
Karno GuhathakurtaIt was a trade exhibition abuzz with the restrained chatter of busy suited executives at company stalls making contacts and finalising deals. Nothing out of place except that this trade
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Equity and Global Climate Policy
<p>The key issue is not defining equity but determining whether climate change is a sustainable development or an environmental challenge</p> <p class="rtejustify">A workshop on ‘Equitable access
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The Bonn Negotiations: New Global Climate Policy
<p><strong>As all countries take actions to reduce emissions the unresolved question is to what extent fairness will be the basis for international cooperation</strong></p> <div> <p>International cooperation
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Climate Negotiations: new pitfalls, but on track
<p class="rtejustify">The climate negotiations have finally begun to focus on the criteria for reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases to be agreed by 2015, and new pitfalls have emerged.</p> <p class="rtejustify">The