What Durban revealed about climate’s shifting allegiances
Posted 14 Dec 2011 in Commentary
Canada’s reversal on Kyoto won’t undermine the sense that the Durban climate conference achieved more than many expected. Inside Story
Posted 14 Dec 2011 in Commentary
Canada’s reversal on Kyoto won’t undermine the sense that the Durban climate conference achieved more than many expected. Inside Story
Posted 14 Dec 2011 in Commentary
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 »
Posted 11 Dec 2011 in Commentary
Michael Jacobs: The latest climate change conference will help to strengthen the fight against global warming the Guardian
Posted 8 Dec 2011 in Commentary
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Posted 8 Dec 2011 in Commentary
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 »
Posted 3 Dec 2011 in Commentary
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Posted 2 Dec 2011 in Commentary
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 »
Posted 1 Dec 2011 in Commentary
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
Posted 29 Nov 2011 in Commentary
These two weeks might turn out to be more interesting than expected, writes Michael Jacobs. The stakes are certainly high enough. Inside Story
Posted 21 Nov 2011 in Commentary
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 »