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Issue No. 250 (Jun 2011)
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COVER:
UN talks deadlocked as climate crisis takes climactic course
Climate
regime on the brink
The climate talks held in Bonn
in June failed to break the deadlock over the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
There is a real prospect of the global climate regime unravelling.
By Martin Khor
Developing
countries have pledged more emission cuts than industrial North
The aggregate emission cuts pledged
by the rich countries are less than those promised by developing countries
combined.
By Stephen Leahy
Kyoto
Protocol's future hangs in the balance
The Bonn
talks witnessed a fundamental cleavage between developed and developing
countries on the issue of the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
By Lim Li Lin
Canada
spurns Kyoto in favour of tar sands
As critics charged that oil companies
are dictating the country's energy policy, Canada joined Japan
and Russia
in refusing to sign on to a renewal of emission cut commitments under
the Kyoto Protocol.
By Stephen Leahy
North
insists on post-Kyoto Protocol market mechanisms
The rich countries are intent on replacing
the Kyoto Protocol with a new agreement which will commit some developing
countries to emission cuts.
By Lim Li Lin
South
warns against trade protectionism to 'mitigate' climate change
Developing countries warned rich countries
against taking trade protectionist moves masquerading as climate change
mitigation measures.
By Hilary Chiew
A
divergent wish list for the Durban
climate conference
The wish list for the Durban
climate conference highlighted the wide gulf between developed and developing
countries.
By Meena Raman
India's
proposal on neglected issues for Durban talks sparks controversy
An Indian submission that the Durban
climate talks consider some neglected issues received a frosty response
from the developed countries.
By Meena Raman
A
CDM misadventure in waste management
Developed countries have been pushing
for market mechanisms to regulate carbon emissions. But there are serious
inadequacies in such an approach.
By Neil Tangri and Dharmesh Shah
Carbon-free
by 2050?
A recent report by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change which examines the prospects of replacing carbon
fuels with renewable energy sources by 2050 is seriously flawed in some
respects.
By Payal Parekh
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The
green revolution backfires: Sweden's
lesson for real sustainability
Sweden
has a valuable lesson to offer: for a sustainable world, green and clean
technologies are not sufficient without a change in lifestyle.
By Firmin DeBrabander
HEALTH & SAFETY
WHA
defers to 2014 decision on smallpox virus stocks destruction
The World Health Assembly will reconsider
the issue of smallpox virus stock destruction when it meets in three
years' time.
By Lim Li Ching
ECONOMICS
Land
deals under the spotlight in Africa
As foreign investors continue
to make forays into Africa's land resources,
a study reveals the surprising identity of some of the principal investors.
By Chee Yoke Heong
Greek
protesters are better economists than the European authorities
European authorities are not facing
up to the default and debt restructuring that will have to take place
sometime.
By Mark
Weisbrot
WORLD AFFAIRS
The
most bombed country on earth
The cluster bombs the US
dropped during its 1964-73 ‘Secret War’ continue to kill and maim people
in Laos. Yet the
US still refuses
to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
By Tom Fawthrop
HUMAN RIGHTS
ILO
adopts 'historic' convention on domestic workers
The International Labour Organisation
in June adopted a landmark convention aimed at protecting tens of millions
of domestic workers worldwide.
By Kanaga Raja
WOMEN
Women
panchayat leaders: Breaking stereotypes, bringing hope
Elected women representatives to village
local councils in the Indian state of Rajasthan are playing a dynamic
role in bringing about social change in their constituencies.
By Bharat Dogra and Reena Mehta
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