Copping out at COP 19 in Warsaw
Back in 2002 an Earth Summit (World Summit on Sustainable Development) nick-named “Rio + 10″ was held in Johannesburg. As I recall there was a big push on to transfer the main carriage for environmental matters from the UN to […]
Climate clippings 87
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes climate change. This edition picks up the […]
Climate clippings 86
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes climate change. This edition is mainly about […]
Panama climate conference
In Climate clippings 47 I included a segment on the UNFCCC meeting at Panama City from 1-7 October. They were expecting a boost to the economy with 35,000 overnight hotel occupations. Good for Panama, but what about the benefit to […]
Climate crunch and Copenhagen: the fierce urgency of now
Back in 2003 James Hansen was saying that we had about 10 years to get ourselves organised to tackle global warming and climate change. You ignore him at your peril. For three days this May some of the best minds […]
Climate talks in Bonn inch forward
In Bonn for the last two weeks 4,600 people from 183 countries representing governments, business and interest groups met in Bonn to discuss the draft text for the December climate change meeting in Copenhagen which we looked at in May. […]
Copenhagen taking shape
I’ve found it difficult to get information on the likely outcome of the Copenhagen climate change conference scheduled for December this year to plan the post-Kyoto arrangements. Robert has drawn attention to talks between the US and China. Tim Hollo […]
Tuesday Photoblogging – CDM edition
The big questions for those in Poznan are those around financing. In what ways do existing instruments need reform? What novel measures could be devised to reign in emissions growth in areas like air and sea transport? So it was […]