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  • Glaciers are still melting…
    Oct 25 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    Although an estimate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch­ange on rapid recession of  Himalayan glaciers has become a political issue in India,  its scientific foundations are quite solid.

  • Himalayan blunder
    Feb 15 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should create a special commission to cross-check all references in its report if errors such as the one on Himalayan glaciers are not to recur.

  • Really inconvenient truth
    Feb 4 2010
    Saul Landau

    Most political leaders face a challenge they refuse to acknowledge: to gain control of runaway climate change they must abandon convenience, the unchallenged assumptions that place the corporation as means and ends of policies.

  • Energy and Climate Change: C+
    Jan 22 2010
    Daphne Wysham

    In his first few months in office, Obama did take some significant actions to address climate change, but failed to follow through.

  • China: The Prince of Denmark
    Jan 21 2010
    Walden Bello

    Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.

  • Fouling up the air
    Jan 12 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    India has become collusive in the weak and inequitable Copenhagen Accord. The government must correct course if India’s poor are not to suffer further.

  • After our Copenhagen self-goal
    Jan 12 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    The Copenhagen Accord represents an ignominious retreat from the urgent and universal imperative of combating climate change through cooperative global action. It needs to be replaced with an ambitious, legally binding agreement.

  • Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen
    Jan 8 2010
    Nick Buxton

    Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal -  the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use the much weaker language of “noting” it.

  • On the Copenhagen UN climate summit or why you need more than butter to bake a cake
    Jan 8 2010
    Beatriz Martinez

    So it seems that for once everyone agrees on something: the UN climate summit in Copenhagen was a spectacular failure. That is quite an achievement in itself, since consensus seems a rarity in these times.

  • Copenhagen cop out
    Dec 30 2009
    Praful Bidwai

    It is apparent to everyone that the Copenhagen Accord is a travesty of what the world needs to avert climate change.

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