In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
trading worth us $100 million have been carried out in the global greenhouse gas emissions market since 1996, states a study commissioned by the World Bank. The study reveals that at least 60 transactions between companies, which account for 55 million tonnes of carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) equivalent …
The emperor of Kyoto is not wearing any clothes. This is certainly the case of the weary, weakened and pretty much nothing agreement on climate change the world agreed to last fortnight. The meeting on the Kyoto Protocol
The us President George Bush’s obdurate stance on climate change has driven negotiations under the critical un Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) to a feverish pitch. The world has now two options
although emissions trading between industrialised countries to meet reduction targets will officially begin only when the Kyoto Protocol comes into force, private companies in countries like the uk , Denmark, France and Norway are already engaging in such trading. The latest addition to this list is the us . As …
Last week, us president and oilman George Bush made his first statement on global warming, which has shocked environmentalists and European governments. But what we must realise is that his position, howsoever Neanderthal, is well calculated, strategic and frankly no different from the earlier us administration. Writing a letter to …
That was the question written across many tired and desperate faces after CoP-6 was suspended. The prospects for future agreement look particularly bleak in light of domestic us politics. If Republican George Bush becomes president, many fear that the chances of the us ever ratifying the convention will be lost …
During the second week of the meeting, it became clear that there were four main areas of contention. In climate jargon, these were: sinks, supplementarity, compliance, and funding for adaptation. A note by Pronk to address these issues in what he considered a balanced manner, presented two days before the …
For the first eight days, negotiations went exactly as expected. After at least two previous climate conferences that followed a predestined script, the outcome of the sixth conference of parties (CoP-6) to the climate change convention, held in The Hague last month, seemed as predictable as a soap opera. The …
smack! A pie in the face of Frank Loy, the leader of the us delegation to the conference on climate change in the Hague. A young British girl threw the organisers into a tizzy, and immediately the civil society became a security risk. A Bangla-deshi non-governmental organisation ( ngo ) …
the sixth conference of parties ( c o p -6) to the un Framework Convention to Climate Change ( unfccc ) is scheduled to be held at The Hague in the Netherlands from November 13 to 24. It might turn out to be the most crucial meeting of climate negotiations …
the us is unlikely to achieve emission reduction targets as stipulated under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol due to large-scale economic growth. "Taking full advantage of the flexibility mechanisms is the only option left with us in order to meet the Kyoto target,' said Frank Loy, under secretary of state for …
"there are few areas where cooperation is needed more than on the issues of climate change and clean energy,' said us President Bill Clinton, addressing a group of environmentalists and journalists at a meeting in Agra during his visit on March 22, 2000. The speech, which also promised to fund …
the Tokyo Electric Power Company ( tepco ) plans to plant eucalyptus and other trees on 1,000 hectares of land in Australia in an attempt to offset its greenhouse gas emissions. The world's largest power utility, which accounts for up to 8 per cent of Japan's carbon dioxide ( co …
South Korea, the world's 11th largest emitter of carbon dioxide ( co 2 ), is coming under increasing pressure from other countries in the world, especially the us , to reduce its carbon emissions. With international negotiations on climate change, under the mantle of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, gaining momentum, …
according to a report by Ilex, the Oxford-based energy consultant, the uk is better placed than most leading European rivals to exceed carbon emissions goals established following the Kyoto climate change summit two years ago. If the uk sells surplus reductions to other countries it could earn up to us …
the us has criticised the European Union ( eu ) government's decision to seek limits on carbon emissions trading under the Kyoto global climate treaty. The us accused eu saying it was rewriting prior agreements. According to eu officials, they have decided on a common approach for international talks in …
australia is about to set up a stock exchange for trading emissions in the next century, and although the modalities are yet to be finalised, the Sydney Futures Exchange will be the most-likely venue, said James Waldren, a key member of the Sydney Futures Exchange Limited. "Emissions trading will just …
On the lopsided negotiating position of the US at CoP-4: The us position in the climate talks is an extension of the belief that the free market can solve the problem that the free market has created. The us is pushing hard to globalise emissions trading, because big industries, whose …
