India: Walking on a Tightrope for Climate-Responsible and Climate-Resilient Development! Published: 30 November 2015 As a result of the climate change India and South Asia will likely have a huge economic, social, and environmental damage. Therefore climate solutions must be considered in national climate policy. Sanjay Vashist
Natural gas, fracking and climate change – gas is not a solution, but part of the problem Published: 30 November 2015 Is Gas a climate-friendly energy sources? And the gas industry a climate protector? No, says Laura Weis and explains why we delay the energy transition with this idea. Laura Weis
Brazil and the REDD debate Published: 27 November 2015 A compensation mechanism could provide countries with incentives to stop their deforestation and thus reduce emissions. However, this relatively simple economic solution remains controversial. Maureen Santos
Commentary: Pursue a dual strategy Published: 27 November 2015 We should not completely abandon economic arguments; but instead of hectically following and reinforcing the trend, we should lessen the prominence of these arguments by strongly fostering alternative ones, especially those which relate to the very intuitions and reasons why people protect nature. Kurt Jax
“South Africa has the negotiating capacity” Published: 27 November 2015 South Africa is highly dependent on coal but also considered a leader on climate policy. How does it look at the upcoming climate summit in Paris? An interview with Richard Worthington. Richard Worthington
Commentary: Dialectics between merits of and concerns Published: 27 November 2015 Creating the visibility to the economic eye requires abstractions that may in the end result in much more far-reaching changes to how we understand nature than initially imagined. There are three claims implied in this statement. Konrad Ott
"We will always have Taiga, we will always have coal" Published: 24 November 2015 For his documentary a finnish filmmaker followed the coaltravel from Kuzbass to Helsinki. His plan: talking to people in the train about climate change. But they didn't want to talk with him. Anastasia Laukkanen
Poland’s approach to the Paris COP Published: 24 November 2015 Poland is a major coal producer. Miners there are well organised and have strong political leverage. There is a big question mark over how the new government want to approach EU climate policy. An analysis. Tobiasz Adamczewski
Myanmar needs more than a new government Published: 24 November 2015 The people of Myanmar have collectively placed their faith in the NLD. The party will have to go on - even beyond Aung San Suu Kyi’s lifetime. A commentary. Khin Zaw Win
Commentary: The role of the state Published: 23 November 2015 The new economy of nature tends to produce a similar right to decide what lives and what does not in the /natural world/ according to its economic value for capital, whether that world lies in the hands of corporations or of states. Ivonne Yanez