VOL. XLV

No 45

11-November-2002

ENVIRONMENT

UNFCCC Gathering In New Delhi Makes Little Headway In Addressing Climate Change Issues

Apart from calling for parties who have yet to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to do so, the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held inNew Delhi, India from 23 October to 1 November, did little to slow down climate change. The declaration produced at the end of the meeting contained rhetorical...