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John Ashton pulls no punches in climate arena

Since retiring from the Foreign Office last year, John Ashton has given a series of forthright speeches on climate change. Why does he omit the predicament of the most vulnerable countries?

Published May 6, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, unfccc

Sustainable Energy For All heads new world order

Leaders of the UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy For All initiative have held a press conference at Rio+20. Public-private partnerships are the model of the future, they say, and this is the biggest of all.

Published June 21, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged energy for all, public private partnerships, rio+20, unfccc

Rio+20: notes for scientists: 12th March

News about the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development relevant to the science community, covering Sha Zukang, Christiana Figueres, A Date With History and the Nine Principles of a Green Economy.

Published March 12, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged green economy, planet under pressure, rio+20, unfccc

Time to snap out of the two degree trance

Vulnerable nations such as Tuvalu made some progress at Copenhagen last week in questioning the right of rich countries to regard two degrees as the safe limit of global warming. More momentum could scupper the talks.

Published December 14, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, unfccc

Blair unfit to lead Europe on climate change

On a visit to China last week, Tony Blair said that encouraging people to reduce flying and driving is not an appropriate response to climate change. This is not good enough for a prospective president of the European Union.

Published August 24, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate justice, unfccc

UK climate projections betray Copenhagen agenda

The new UK climate projections published by the Met Office Hadley Centre are a valuable risk management tool for policymakers. But they also speak volumes about the global failure to protect poor countries from climate change.

Published June 29, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alpha, climate adaptation, climate change, global divide, unfccc, winchester

Assorted omens for Copenhagen climate agreement

The mood of last week’s World Business Summit on Climate Change was positive that climate negotiators will reach agreement in Copenhagen in December. But US Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, appears to be in hasty retreat from election promises.

Published June 1, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, climate change, oneworld, unfccc, US

Car scrappage may upset climate negotiations

Subsidies for scrapping old cars are all the rage in Europe. But will these handouts put developing countries in a positive frame of mind to make concessions for a new Kyoto agreement?

Published April 20, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, climate change, subsidies, unfccc

Climate activists should look beyond Copenhagen

The outcome of the G20 reinforced fears that the US and China will not reach agreement on climate change this year. Maybe it’s time for campaigners to downgrade the Copenhagen summit, however unpalatable.

Published April 6, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged alpha, climate change, film, unfccc
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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