Last year the UK pledged £75 million to Bangladesh, often cited as one of the countries that will be hit very hard by climate change. Even modest sea level rises could flood 20% of land. The cash will be used for things like raising homes in high-risk flood areas, provide flood-resilient crops, and a national [...]

India’s strong position on climate change was reaffirmed this year at COP-14. It remains staunchly focused on a ‘common but differentiated’ principle, whereby those who are historic emitters of GHGs should be the mitigators under an international climate policy regime. As a result, India refuses to take on emissions caps or cuts. So what is [...]

Talks at Poznan about a re-engineering of the Clean Development Mechanism, Kyoto Protocol’s righteous son, have been Bonn-ed. This does not come as a surprise for some observers, but disappointment is understandable. As a flagship of the Kyoto Protocol’s market-based approach to climate change, one could have hoped that delegates fixed at least the most [...]