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Issue No. 236 (Apr 2010)
COVER:
After Copenhagen: North continues to backtrack from climate change responsibility
Climate
talks resume, future uncertain
After the chaotic ending of the Copenhagen conference,
the United Nations' climate negotiations resumed in Bonn in April, with differences over how to proceed towards
a global deal.
BY MARTIN KHOR
Leaked
Danish post-mortem of Copenhagen
fiasco
Leaks of a post-conference confidential memorandum
from the Danish Prime Minister's office analysing
the outcome of the Copenhagen
conference have confirmed that there was a conspiracy to scuttle the
democratic UN negotiating process and compel developing countries, contrary
to the Kyoto Protocol, to undertake carbon emission cuts.
BY MEENA RAMAN
Bonn climate talks settle procedure on new negotiating
draft
After much wrangling, the Bonn climate talks finally resolved differences
on whether a new draft negotiation text should be prepared for the next
session and, if so, on what basis. Meena Raman reports.
BY MEENA RAMAN
Kyoto
Protocol work continues in 2010 despite threats to its future
Much of the procedural debate at the Bonn climate meeting was
largely about the future of the Kyoto Protocol. Lim Li Lin explains.
BY LIM LI LIN
Climate
battle moves to Bolivia
In Cochabamba
in the Andean mountains, where glaciers are melting, a people's climate
conference was held in April that invigorated the spirit of social and
political leaders to intensify the battle against climate change.
BY MARTIN KHOR
Cochabamba
Conference proposes climate justice tribunal to tackle climate change
The conference on climate change organised by the Bolivian government has put forward some
novel proposals to pressurise Western leaders
to speed up climate negotiations.
BY FRANZ CHAVEZ
Bolivia
submits Cochabamba Conference outcome to UNFCCC
Despite its radical agenda, the main outcome of
the Cochabamba Conference has been submitted by the Bolivian government
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
BY MEENA RAMAN
US
calls for Copenhagen
Accord to be reflected in new negotiating text
In its submission to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, the US has made a special pitch for the
Copenhagen Accord, describing it as 'the locus of progress'. And it
has also made it clear that it favours a legally
binding agreement which imposes obligations on 'all relevant parties'
and not merely the developed countries.
BY MEENA RAMAN
World
cannot wait for the US
indefinitely, say BASIC Ministers
Ministers from the BASIC countries said that 'the
world could not wait indefinitely' for the United States in reaching
an internationally legally binding agreement on climate change, noting
news reports that domestic climate legislation in the United States
had been postponed.
BY MEENA RAMAN
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ECOLOGY
The end
of Russian 'nuclear renaissance'?
According to the Russian government, the number
of new nuclear reactors planned to be built by 2015 will be cut by
60%. But even that number of nuclear units will be hard to build.
As environmental groups have been saying for years, Russia's nuclear aspirations are far
from realisation.
BY WISE RUSSIA
ECONOMICS
Microfinance:
Profiting from the poor
While advocates of microfinance often make exaggerated
claims about its capacity to reduce poverty, there is no denying that
it has a role to play. However, as some recent scandals involving
microfinance institutions have revealed, there is a need for microfinance
to be properly regulated.
BY KAVALJIT SINGH
WORLD
AFFAIRS
Thailand on the
brink
The recent explosive events in Thailand which have exposed the deep
social fissures in that country have come as a shock to many. Tom
Fawthrop explains the crisis.
BY TOM FAWTHROP
Kissinger
rescinded warning against Condor assassinations
Recently declassified documents have revealed that
in September 1976, US
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger countermanded moves to thwart the
wave of assassinations of dissidents carried out by the military dictatorships
of the Southern Cone countries led by the Pinochet regime in Chile under its notorious 'Operation
Condor'.
BY JIM LOBE
HUMAN
RIGHTS
Sewing
discord
Escalating garment factory strikes in Rangoon have needled a nervous
ruling regime.
BY BA KAUNG
WOMEN
Imprisoning
Palestinian women
While world attention has been focused on Gilad Shalit, the lone Israeli held
by Palestinian militants, it has ignored the fact that since 1967,
over 700,000 Palestinians have been incarcerated, including 10,000
women.
BY STEPHEN LENDMAN
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