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George Thomas
George Thomas, popularly known as Siby Kattampally, is a senior journalist with over a quarter of a century’s experience in active journalism for Malayala Manorama, the second largest selling daily newspaper in India. Currently he is assistant editor and serves on the editorial board. He was an accredited correspondent to the US presidential election in 1992, President Clinton’s presidential inauguration in 1993 and the India-US Nuclear Negotiations in Washington DC in 2006. His current responsibilities include writing editorials, commentaries, analyses and in-depth reports on international issues, peace and security, environment, climate change and human rights. Siby has won several national and international awards and fellowships for excellence in journalism. He is a winner of the Lorenzo Natali Prize, 2008 and the French Freedom Prize, 2008.
Posts by George Thomas
Big battle over Danish document
Comments offDeveloping nations and China attacked Wednesday a Danish proposal leaked to a UK newspaper during UN climate talks here in the Denmark. The Guardian newspaper story said the Danish prime minister’s proposal put responsibility for cutting carbon pollution equally on both developing and developed countries, an idea firmly opposed by delegates from the world’s poorer countries.
»India says no to American agenda
No commentsIndia is dead set against scrapping the Kyoto Protocol and US moves for a new climate agreement in Copenhagen
»Talk, talk….but no agreement
No commentsThe general feeling coming out of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and developing nation envoys in the corridors of the UN convention center is that there won’t be much progress on the road to Copenhagen unless the US changes its hard line stand.
»Chasing the monsoon: Farmers’ cries reflected in climate talks?
No commentsNot long before national delegations began raising their voices here in UN climate talks, Rajappan Nair was standing in his banana patch, in tears. A farmer in India’s southern Kerala State, he had watched with panic as heavy rains and hurricane winds lashed northern Kerala, causing land slips, floods and heavy crop losses.
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