United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
FT Climate Experts' Forum - 14 December
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director discusses the first week of the Copenhagen Conference
Obama at the Copenhagen Endgame
IPN Opinion article
Julian Morris blogs for FTEnergySource during COP15 in Copenhagen
UN Climate Plans vs. The Poor
IPN Opinion article
Despite the breakdown of UN climate-change talks in Bali last December, the same themes were still being pushed at the late August week's meeting in Ghana--but now developing countries have begun to question the effects on the world's poorest. They must fight for greater realism in the climate debate: their livings and even their lives depend on it.
The End is Nigh Ö for the Kyoto Protocol
IPN Opinion article
At last week's climate change meeting in Buenos Aires, European governments
appeared finally to have woken up to the fact that the Kyoto Protocol sums
don't add up. Meanwhile, Brazil, China, India and the US ñ together
representing the majority of global emissions of greenhouse gases ñ seem
opposed the imposition of binding restrictions on emissions of greenhouse
gases after 2012, when Kyoto comes to an end. As a result, the Kyoto
Protocol itself may unwind. This would be good news for everyone, especially
the poorest.
The EU and other rich countries must stop their hypocritical attempts to foist emissions controls on the poor, says Director of international think-tank
IPN Press release
Imposing Kyoto-style emssions restrictions on poor countries would be 'immoral' says NGO coalition
IPN Press release
Climate Controls Dangerous to Developing Countries
IPN Opinion article
THE Institute of Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) has warned African countries that Kyoto protocol on climate control aimed at reducing energy use amongst other things, would halt economic growth and worsen the poverty situation in developing countries.
IPPA in a statement by its Nigeria coordinator, Mr. Thompson Ayodele, said attempts to control the climate would thwart human's ability to adapt to climate change.
