So, the unthinkable happened and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (USA) has a Republican senator. Why is this so monumentous for the rest of the world? Poke a stick into the virtual world and you will find innumerable analyses of what happened – my source of info on Massachusetts (my one time home) is WBUR. But [...]
It’s the festive season and rather than pretend there’s time between parties and pantos to write anything remotely insightful, I thought I’d scribble a few of my favourite blogs and posts this year. In no particular order, they are: Dan Bodansky‘s letter from the Barcelona Climate Change Talks that preceded COP-15. This and blogs such [...]
When Copenhagen winds up in a week’s time it seems pretty certain the limo we’d hoped would whisk us away to a low carbon world won’t have shown up. We may have a better idea of what a limo looks like, and we will probably know what limo companies to avoid in future. But the [...]
Up front, I am not jumping up and down about the Copenhagen Climate Summit or COP 15 as it’s called. It would be nice to have a genuine worldwide commitment on tackling climate change announced when the Summit ends on 18 December. But this has been a busy twelve months for the world’s politicians, and [...]
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. All around, people are caught up in the frenzied run up to the Copenhagen. Will there, won’t there be an agreement? Is it better to have one or not? There’s lots of blogging on this as you can imagine, and I’ll just flag up one of my colleague’s, [...]
In the frantic run up to the Copenhagen Summit later this December, many in the business community are positioning themselves as champions of a revitalised Kyoto Agreement. Their voices lend weight to those of politicians, not least those who are concerned there won’t be a new agreement. I’m agnostic on an agreement at Copenhagen. A [...]
What this week has brought home is the size of the gap between our goals and our achievements. Climate change combatants are looking for ways to ramp up solutions : hopefully they won’t mistake the icepick for a solution