This report discusses how Denmark - a country whose major agricultural organizations have committed to become carbon neutral by 2050 - can achieve carbon neutral agriculture. The report’s lessons can inform not only Denmark’s agricultural future, but also that of other advanced agricultural economies.
T. Jayaraman To keep its developmental options open, India must insist that the North drastically reduce its occupation of the global atmospheric commons and compensate the South for what it has taken away. What precisely is at stake in global climate change negotiations for India and other developing countries? Undoubtedly, …
Total, the French oil group, has warned politicians that they risk accelerating an oil supply crunch if they enact environmental policies that deter investment in oil and gas before enough viable alternatives are available.
The aviation and shipping sectors would be included in global carbon-cutting measures for the first time under a European Union proposal to be tabled at December
India and China struck an agreement on Wednesday to co-ordinate efforts to combat climate change that has at its core demands that the developed world take the lead in cutting global carbon emissions. Both countries are resisting acceptance of binding cuts or caps to their carbon emissions, arguing that they …
Denmark, South Africa and India are among the countries with the most effective energy policies, according to the World Energy Council, an industry group. The Council on Tuesday publishes its first World Energy and Climate Policy assessment, which aims to review the performance of 88 countries on issues such as …
The moment of truth will already be upon us in a few weeks. In mid-December 2009 delegates from practically all the countries of the world will meet in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations. It will perhaps be the biggest meeting that has ever taken place. The results of this …
Many countries that have made commitments under the Kyoto agreement will have problems meeting them. For most countries this will only be possible by resorting to
Until now, agriculture has been largely excluded from global carbon markets, but this is set to change in December 2009 at the Copenhagen conference. Agribusiness companies are lobbying hard to make a range of farming activities eligible for future funding under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). As a result, billions …
As the Copenhagen climate change summit in December begins to dominate the global agenda, China is trying to pull off a delicate balancing act. On the one hand it is holding firm against international pressure to sign up to specific targets for reducing carbon emissions or to set a date …
WHILE we are yet to ascertain whether aerosols are warming or cooling our planet, a scientific team has traced a new source: deciduous trees. These are plants that shed their leaves seasonally. So far aerosols were described as particles of pollutants like sulphur dioxide, black carbon (soot) and sea salt …
The road to global cooperation on climate change mitigation at the forthcoming Copenhagen Summit is currently gridlocked by an apparent direct clash of interests between the mitigation priorities of the developed countries and the growth priorities of the developing world. Nobel laureate Michael Spence has an imaginative strategy for getting …
