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COP18 Doha UN climate talks Nov 26

Notes on the opening press conferences from the Doha climate negotiations, covering Climate Action Network, Jonathan Pershing, Artur Runge-Metzger and a gaffe-prone Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah.

Published November 26, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP18, reducing emissions

Energy poverty news: Rio+20: June 18

UN-Energy boss Kandeh Yumkella wows a corporate audience on the subject of energy poverty. Potential funding sources continue to be debated whilst new research in Nature gives Energy For all a green light on mitigating climate change.

Published June 18, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged energy for all, reducing emissions, rio+20

Moral climate hazard and real disaster risks

In the approach to COP17, the IPCC SREX report is published whilst the Stockholm Environment Institute looks at suspect economic assumptions for emissions projections.

Published November 18, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged disaster risk, reducing emissions

Bangladesh PM lectures India and China on climate change

Speaking at the Climate Vulnerable Forum, Sheikh Hasina appeals to major emitting countries to face up to their responsibilities on climate change.

Published November 14, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged bangladesh, CDM, reducing emissions

Global carbon dioxide emissions for 2010

Figures released by the US Department of Energy show an increase of 6% over 2009 carbon dioxide emissions.

Published November 8, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged reducing emissions

The emissions cost of electricity for all

Providing universal access to electricity represents justice for the poor but will increase carbon dioxide emissions. A new report suggests that the pain is worth the gain.

Published October 22, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged coal, energy for all, reducing emissions

Prepare for personal carbon rations, says UN report

One of the UN’s most influential annual reports warns that personal energy rationing in richer countries is a necessary component of any coherent global strategy for sustainable development. American citizens might be capped at less than one sixth of their current carbon consumption by 2050.

Published July 11, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged energy for all, reducing emissions, rio+20, yahoo

How to make COP17 interesting

Could the Green Climate Fund conceivably support a programme which would increase greenhouse gas emissions?

Published June 28, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged energy for all, FCCC COP17, reducing emissions

Chinese ducks in a row for climate negotiations

Publication of its 12th Five Year Plan has put flesh on the bones of China’s energy pledges made in international climate change negotiations. By contrast, Congressional budget wrangling renders U.S. emissions targets less convincing by the day.

Published March 7, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged china, climate politics, reducing emissions, US, yahoo

Fuel subsidies debacle undermines global warming roadmap

The abrupt New Year’s Eve reversal of President Morales’ decision to raise petrol and diesel prices represents a setback for prospects of reducing global carbon dioxide emissions.

Published January 3, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged bolivia, fossil fuel subsidies, india, indonesia, reducing emissions

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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with Winchester Action on the Climate Crisis, Winchester Poetry Festival, City of Winchester Trust and Hampshire Hogs CC. Still playing cricket, fives, 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