President Barroso announced an interesting shift in the Chinese attitude to the post-Kyoto agreement when visiting Beijing last week. The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is said to have indicated that China could participate fully in an international agreement provided that the old industrialised nations promised to reduce their emission till 2020 and that a [...]

In just two months time (July 7-9) there will be a G8-summit in Hokkaido under the Japanese chairmanship. A month earlier there will be a preparatory meeting on energy. The chairing country have made their homework thoroughly and it looks all set for a decisive step in preparation for the post-Kyoto agreement. But still it [...]