What will be top of mind for Africa at climate talks?
By FELIX DONKOR.- Several regions have been meeting in the run-up to the Paris climate talks to deliberate on pressing climate issues. Africa is no exception.
View ArticleHow to ensure nations stick to Paris commitments
New Zealand is proposing in Paris a climate agreement that is not legally binding. PETER NEWELL, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, explains why legally binding...
View ArticleRussia will use forests as a Paris bargaining chip
By MARIANNA POBEREZHSKAYA.- Russia has a reputation as one of the more difficult states involved in international climate negotiations - and don't expect things to change at the latest UN conference in...
View ArticleHansen: Why global 'carbon fee' system will work
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen has called for a global "carbon fee" in which fossil fuels are taxed when they are produced or imported, rather than when they are consumed.
View ArticleMost Kiribati households are mulling migration
By ANDREW GEDDES.- The Paris climate summit came too late for Ioane Teitiota from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, who made history when his case for asylum in New Zealand was rejected in September.
View ArticleClimate and international laws trap islanders
People on low-lying islands threatened by climate-related disasters are barred from seeking sanctuary because international laws say they are classed as economic migrants.
View ArticleMeet the fossil fuel firms paying for Paris
By DAVID HOLMES.- In their recent book Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg argue that "the reputation risk that...
View ArticleTreaty emerges from battle of the verbs
Under the Paris Agreement there should be no net addition of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere sometime in the second half of this century.
View ArticleNZ leads charge for world carbon market
Tentative steps have been made toward the development of an international carbon market.
View ArticleCOMMENT: Great, now all we need is a plan
By editor ADELIA HALLETT.- Two months ago, Northern Employers and Manufacturers' Association chief Kim Campbell let fly on climate change.
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