What Durban revealed about climate’s shifting allegiances
Canada’s reversal on Kyoto won’t undermine the sense that the Durban climate conference achieved more than many expected. Inside Story
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Durban has given a major boost to climate policy
United Nations climate change conferences don’t of themselves cut greenhouse gas emissions. Negotiations about targets and texts cannot do that; only government policies that give incentives and require business investment … read more »
Hope at last at the Durban conference on climate change
Michael Jacobs: The latest climate change conference will help to strengthen the fight against global warming the Guardian
A profound contradiction at the heart of climate change policy
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Is Accuracy Being Frozen Out of the BBC’s Climate Change Coverage?
The final episode of Frozen Planet featured narrator Sir David Attenborough as he explained the ways in which shrinking ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic are radically changing life … read more »
Scientists frustrated in climate change debate
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Why the house journal of the sceptics is full of hot air
The propaganda machine of self-proclaimed climate change “sceptics” has been in overdrive in the run-up to the United Nations summit in Durban, and the new edition of The Spectator is … read more »
UN climate talks see ‘delayer countries’ throw away the 2C goal
Michael Jacobs: The goal of holding global warming to 2C will be missed if the world’s largest economies insist on delaying negotiations the Guardian
Can Durban deliver?
These two weeks might turn out to be more interesting than expected, writes Michael Jacobs. The stakes are certainly high enough. Inside Story
Reports spell double trouble for the climate
There have been two sobering climate change statistics recently. First we learnt that despite a sluggish economy, global emissions of carbon dioxide grew by a whopping 6 per cent between 2009 … read more »