Two recent publications highlight the challenges ahead in the multilateral process that continues to seek an equitable global approach to the issue of growing CO2 …
Category: Kyoto Protocol
Is the CDM now increasing emissions?
Late last week Point Carbon reported that the Executive Board of the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism has (re)agreed to allow energy efficient coal fired power plants …
A link up between Australia and the EU
As Australia struggled through the ill fated CPRS legislation and finally landed with its carbon pricing mechanism, I often thought that it would be much …
A new market mechanism from the UNFCCC
While much of the focus in the recent UNFCCC meeting in Bonn was on the protracted discussion around agenda and chair for the ADP (Ad-Hoc …
Cancun: A reason for optimism?
Looking at a set of newspaper headlines earlier this week one might get the impression that nobody was quite sure whether progress had been made …
Cancun and Beyond: Financing the Energy Future
Pick up almost any article on climate change today and it won’t be too long before your attention is turned towards the subject of financing. …
A Lost Opportunity?
The final decision by the United States Senate not to proceed with climate change legislation for now raises the very difficult question as to where …
