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REDD shafted by deepwater drilling concessions

Pressure builds on Indonesia to sign up to a moratorium on deforestation. Meanwhile, both US and UK governments refuse pleas for a moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil. Is this a contradiction?

Published January 10, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged indonesia, norway, oil, redd, UK, US

Obama BP tirade opens door to climate reparations

President Obama may be winning votes by piling up the oil spill compensation costs for BP. But is he creating a precedent for environmental damages that climate change activists can exploit?

Published June 13, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged loss and damage, oil, US
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things