With concerns over the increasing chances of human vulnerability due to climate related changes, the role of public participation in climate policy making has become more important. Incorporating public opinion has been a key feature of environmental decision making through the formalized environmental impact assessments (EIAs), meant to objectively evaluate developmental projects with environmental impacts. [...]

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 [...]