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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India, China, West: How to Trade With ‘Foreign...
04 Jul 2025 16:54 GMT
… a common drumbeat.
Today, China, the world’s largest … unlike other regions. In East Asia, the share of firms … Asia catches up with East Asian per capita incomes, which … differentiated responsibilities’ enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol. This is duplicitous. Carve …
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BRICS nations need to build consensus and balance innovation by reinforcing Global South's digital sovereignty
05 Jul 2025 16:38 GMT
New Delhi: BRICS, the developing world's stand-in to the G-7 grouping. was expanded at the Kazan Summit, last year. Post expansion, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have joined the founding members Brazil, Russia, India, China …
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N. Korea’s Yesong River power plants and carbon credit challenges
20 May 2025 00:38 GMT
During a National Assembly Diplomatic and Unification Committee audit on Oct. 13, 2017, a lawmaker asked the South Korean government, “North Korea is secretly operating some Kaesong Industrial Complex facilities – what electricity source are they using to …
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Multiple Emissions Trading Systems Govern Maritime Industry
04 Jul 2025 21:52 GMT
As the global shipping industry strives toward the net-zero 2050 target, multiple emissions trading systems (ETS) or schemes govern maritime emissions. The emissions trading system or scheme is a market-based, cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse …
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Climate Crisis Threatens Pakistan’s Tourism Future And National Wellbeing
03 Jul 2025 12:38 GMT
… Countries like India and China in Asia also significantly contribute … stabilise greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol (1997) and its successor, … 1994, has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and is a signatory … became the first South Asian country to join the …
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China’s Climate Leadership: Progress, Challenges, and Global Impact
03 Mar 2025 23:46 GMT
… As a result, the Kyoto Protocol (1997) was ratified, … Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement requires China and all … in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Qinghai, China is leading … Through programs such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB …
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Heat, Hunger, and the Ghosts of Empire
30 Jun 2025 23:09 GMT
The industrialized nations of the Global North—many of them former imperial powers—built their prosperity through centuries of colonial extraction and, later, unrestrained emissions. Today, the consequences of that history are unfolding across a warming …
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Hong Kong environmental entrepreneur Doug Woodring’s serial start-ups, in his own words
22 Jul 2024 03:30 GMT
Keep moving
A lot of kids that get into swimming start when they are about six and burn out by the time they get to college. I didn’t really get serious about swimming until I got into college, so I was still improving. I went to the University of …
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When is a transition not transition? The Kyoto Protocol and climate change
01 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT
OPINION:
Back in 1997, President Bill Clinton signed on to the goals and processes of the Kyoto Protocol, which commits signatory countries to reduce greenhouse gases in amounts sufficient to prevent dangerous man-made interference with the climate.
In an …
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Trump Is Handing China a Golden Opportunity on Climate
11 Nov 2024 12:49 GMT
In what will probably be the warmest year in recorded history, in a month in which all but two U.S. states are in a drought, and on a day when yet another hurricane was forming in the Caribbean, Donald Trump, a climate denier with a thirst for oil drilling …