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Back in 2005 I analysed Kyoto as a document of economic privilege rather than environmental protection. Now the G8 statement on climate change is announced with considerable chatter on the margins gaining pace for the scrapping of Kyoto. Some links:

Global Dashboard: Kicking Kyoto
Democracy Journal: Nordhaus and Schellenberger say ‘Scrap Kyoto’
Nature: Gwyn Pryns and Steve Rayner [...]

The UN Climate Talks which ran from 2-13 June in Bonn, Germany, to pave the way for a new agreement on how to tackle climate change, have ended with no national or regional UK press coverage.
The opening and close of the climate debate was covered by the wires (Reuters, AFP), by the Chinese news agency [...]

Good news in a way today, in environment reporting terms at least, that comes about through a story focused on a waste of environmental activity and money.
Bad news first
That is, as John Vidal writes today in the Guardian, billions are being wasted on projects funded through the UN Climate Programme. Following the work of two [...]

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is one of three ‘flexible mechanisms’ that allows signatories of the Kyoto Protocol (all developed countries) to purchase ‘credits’ which they can then ’spend’ by investing in clean energy projects in the developing world.
On April 15th last month, the CDM approved its 1,000th project. Analysis and disclosure of its impacts [...]

I believe a method that approaches the Kyoto Protocol (and other international agreements)  as an ‘object of research’(.doc) (Fairclough, 2000) through the application of neuroscientific understanding would show that such documents of law, the environment, politics and of the international, can be read as indicators of the individual and collective human executive functions of the [...]

Here’s an interesting one: quoting from an article in Science from October 2007 that I just got round to reading:
neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that the striatum tracks a social partner’s decision to reciprocate or not reciprocate cooperation, appearing to encode abstract rewards such as the positive feeling garnered by mutual cooperation. (600)

The striatum provides a [...]