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...
Results for "convergence capita"
100 WEF CEOs argue per capita convergence ahead of G8
WEF has just published a statement on climate change ahead of the G8 from what appears more or less all of the world's CEOs (A is for ABB, Abercrombie &...
Sarkozy latest convert to per capita convergence in climate policy?
Looks like Sarkozy's the latest European leader to start getting behind convergence of national emission entitlements to equal per capita levels as the...
Is Brown getting behind Merkel on a convergence-based climate policy?
Interesting to see this little nugget included in the UK / Indian communique resulting from Gordon Brown's talks with Manmohan Singh: Long-term convergence...
Australian Stern Review tilting towards Contraction & Convergence
More interesting post-election goings on in Australia. Since April, a Stern-esque Review of climate change has been underway, headed by Professor Ross...
Angela Merkel proposes contraction and convergence
Here’s the chapter and verse from the German Chancellery website: According to Merkel’s proposal, CO2 emissions would be measured per capita. The maximum COs...
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.
A reply to Jeff Sachs and Johan Rockstrom on fair shares and planetary boundaries
Dear Jeff Sachs, Johan Rockstrom, Marcus Ohman and Guido Schmidt-Traub, I'm a long-standing admirer of your work, especially Johan's pioneering research on...
Why Greenpeace is part of the problem on global climate policy
On Twitter a couple of days ago, Greenpeace International's executive director Kumi Naidoo penned an appeal for people to become Greenpeace members. I threw...
The battle for India’s climate policy
While we're on the subject of comings and goings on India's climate team, worth noting that the Indian press is full of talk of an epic fallout between...
The best news on climate change for months. Maybe.
Bono endorses contraction and convergence – potentially kicking off a major (and long overdue) strategic rethink on climate change among NGOs and civil society
Copenhagen “in disarray”? Don’t believe the hype
The Guardian's leading with a rather breathless piece this evening on how the Copenhagen talks are ... in disarray today after developing countries reacted...
World Bank vs UNCTAD
Excerpt from the World Bank's just-published World Development Report 2010 (which this year takes climate change as its theme - overview pdf): Enshrining a...
Come on, NGOs, raise your game!
In comments on Jules's post on the Put People First march, the Bretton Woods Project's Peter Chowla takes me to task for what he argued was a sloppy and...
The Put People First march
People in the City are muttering about being invaded by a horde of Swampies this weekend, for the Put People First march. There's sure to be a lot of angry...
Peak Emissions Now
Why wait until 2015? Let’s declare 2009 the high watermark for global greenhouse gas emissions.
What’s happening in Poznan
Relatively little media coverage so far on the UN climate talks currently underway in Poznan - but that's not to say that nothing interesting is happening...
Global deal – the developing country ask
Imagine you're advising China or India - or perhaps a poorer developing country such as Ghana - on their preparations for the climate change negotiations in...
Burn Up
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY__KBYJjMM] Freed from the nice-guy constraints of being Josh on the West Wing, Bradley Whitford was clearly having a...
Monbiot changes his mind on post-2012 climate policy
Although plenty of people see the Guardian's George Monbiot as an irritating gadfly (see also Gideon Rachman's amusing account of what it's like to work with...
From carbon footprints to grain footprints
The FT's Gideon Rachman has a terrific column today mulling over the question that this week's UN food summit in Rome is likely to sweep politely beneath the...
Starting to think through the long term food agenda
Just back from ten gorgeous days on holiday in Cornwall - hence radio silence on the blogging front, and a much-needed break from frenetic activity on the...
What does China want from a post-Kyoto climate agreement?
That's the question I ask in an article published today on ChinaDialogue, a bilingual English / Chinese environment website. I've already blogged here about...
Citizen Gore
Michael Tomasky has a thoughtful piece about Al Gore in the current New York Review of Books. He doesn't reckon there's much prospect of Gore running: When...
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