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India should guide the world on fighting climate change

Moving sustainability from ideas to reality and regaining the leadership of developing countries

 

MukulSanwal[1]

 

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Paradigm shift as a way out of the current impasse

Moving from emission reductions to energy use as the basis for international cooperation must now shape our approach to the climate negotiations

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The Lima Deal: differentiation ends, negotiations begin for sharing the global carbon budget

Lima witnessed the end game of a 20 year old negotiation around doing away with differentiation between countries at different levels of development and the beginning of negotiations on a global pact for sharing the carbon budget. It is all about geopolitics, not about the global environment.

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Climate Politics : Stress is now on use and distribution, not just scarcity, of natural resources for a transformation

Mukul Sanwal[1]

 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has now unequivocally stated that “the evidence suggests that outcomes seen as equitable can lead to more effective [international] cooperation”.

 

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Climate change: an opportunity for leadership by the BRICS

 

Compromises have to be made by all

 

Mukul Sanwal

 

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Priorities for the climate negotiations: a climate regime that works

MukulSanwal[1]

 

Global climate policy is being reframed, moving away from an exclusive focus on emissions, the symptoms, to the causes of the problem, use of energy, and new sustainable development architecture.

 

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Emergence of a climate regime that works

 

The focus on current and per capita emissions has not led to the desired results

 

MukulSanwal[1]

 

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The Paris summit: Universality and diversity

A framework for updating the Climate Treaty

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