Never have I seen such a wave of social media euphoria as the one that swept through my Twitter and Facebook feeds this time yesterday, as news broke about...
Results for "clean development mechanism"
A high ambition coalition of the willing on climate change
Could a high ambition coalition of the willing on climate change get going with defining a global carbon budget and taking on their shares to it, while leaving the door open for other governments to join at a later date? Owen Bader, Alice Lepissier, and Alex Evans think so – and have developed a detailed quant model to show how it could work and what the decarbonisation costs and emissions trading revenue flows might be.
NGOs at their absolute worst
Now this campaign really annoys me. A gaggle of NGOs have joined forces to launch a declaration demanding that the European Union scrap its emissions trading...
Priesthood? Who, us?
David and I are very partial to having a good rant about the pernicious influence of the single-issue 'priesthoods' that, as we put it in Confronting the Long...
The EPA ‘whistleblower’ YouTube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNQzSjb38g[/youtube] This video, by Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two veteran Environmental Protection Agency...
Who will point out that the CDM emperor has no clothes?
From yesterday's Sunday Times, more news that all is not well with the Clean Development Mechanism: The legitimacy of the $100 billion (£60 billion)...
Africa’s stall at Copenhagen
A significant but little reported event occurred last Thursday. The Africa Partnership Forum held a Special Session on Climate Change on 3 September 2009 at...
Those secret US / China climate talks in full
Today's Guardian has a big splash announcing that "China and US held secret climate talks". According to Suzanne Goldberg, A high-powered group of senior...
Kicking Kyoto
Like Alex, I spoke at the United Nations University symposium on climate change and innovation on Friday - and one notable theme was the ferocious kicking...
Europe’s posture on global climate policy
With Angela Merkel's advocacy of a per capita based approach to future global climate policy, and now (as David reported earlier this week), the prospect of...
Towards More Equal and Resilient Cities Post-COVID-19
What path we take post-COVID-19 will depend in large part on how the world’s cities change. The Long Crisis scenarios are a timely and helpful reminder that nothing is settled: our future is up for grabs. A better future can only be won by equipping and empowering cities to drive a green, inclusive recovery post-COVID-19.
The FT trashes the CDM, endorses per capita convergence
The FT's leader on Copenhagen this morning was exactly right. First it trashed the CDM (see here for CDM-trashing here on Global Dashboard over the last two...
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Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
Big Elephants and Small Islands: getting beyond the New Aid Orthodoxy
Official development assistance (ODA) – or aid – is a small but conspicuous pillar of the international order, and its frailties are being exposed by COVID as surely as those of the other foundations of this order. The assumptions underpinning aid and its management...
Uncertainty and Humanitarian Action: What Donald Rumsfeld can teach us
Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘historical divide’ of BC and AC (before and after COVID-19), where unknown,...