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Glaciers are still melting…
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.

Ten key questions on climate change
David Fig

Climate change is a political and scientific conundrum. From the denialism of the George Bush era to the neo-liberal imperatives of carbon trading, the subject is confusing, and an activist agenda is sometimes a navigational minefield.

Global governance priorities in an interdependent world - balancing the economic and the environmental crisis
Susan George

The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labour to capital.

 

Himalayan blunder
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.

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which
threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and
the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act
now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise...

Really inconvenient truth
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+
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
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
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
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.

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