Al Gore Does Not Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for creating “an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.” And what does this have to do with peace?

Negotiating Climate Change for the Poor – Part I

Yale Global is carrying an article by Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, who led India’s negotiations at the UNFCCC, on how climate change affects the poor, and how a global policy to combat climate change can be agreed upon:

Yet, affluent countries press the poor to accept a very different approach. They urge the developing countries to strike a [...]

US To Lead Climate Change Plans

Today’s Wall Street Journal Asia is carrying an article that shows what is in store for developing countries attending the Bush sponsored Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change. After years of lethargy, and calling on the developing world to act, the Bush Administration and many others in the US have decided that [...]

The Politics of Negotiating Climate Change: Implications for India

The FT has a very illuminating article on the politics of climate change. It is illuminating because it brings a perspective to the debate that has sadly been lacking so far – one of pragmatic international relations. Taking that perspective explains why the US, China and other major polluters have not signed on to any [...]

Climate Change: Moving Beyond Principle

The July edition of Pragati, (the Indian National Interest review) has just been released. It includes my article on climate change, making a case for India’s engagement on the issue (note an earlier version of the article first appeared on the IEB).
The publication has much else to keep you preoccupied too, with pieces on China, [...]

India’s Case for Climate Change Action: on IEB

For a month, I will be writing as a guest blogger on the Indian Economy Blog. My first post just went live – Climate Change, Why India Must Act.
I have been a long-time supporter of India’s policy of staying away from Kyoto’s binding targets. Recent research I’ve conducted over the past month, however, has shown [...]

The Evolution of Climate Change

Ever wonder how ideas proliferate, gather momentum, and then are taken as fact? Take climate change. Regardless of its factual basis, it was not mainstream even in the late 1990s. From whence did it come?
I did some research that presents insights into how climate change as an issue has evolved. But its even more revealing [...]

Random Nuggets: Patents, Generics, and Climate Change

The IHT reported two interesting pharma related news items.

It may be high season for patent reform in the US. According to the IHT, Democratic control of Congress, pressure to control healthcare costs, and lobbying by the high-tech industry for weaker patent legislation and protection from frivolous patent infringement suits might finally overturn the stranglehold of [...]