Why wait for 2015?
London: As we hurtle towards a 4-5 degrees hotter world, with all its inherent dangers, I have taken some small consolation in the fact that action on climate change is one of the few things that the...
View ArticleDurban calling
London: I thought I’d mark my 3-year bloggiversary with an update post – a look back, a look forward, a look inward and outward (who knows, maybe I’ll find my lost Oyster card). This time last year, we...
View ArticleEarly hope for climate negotiations
Durban: Sawubona! – Hello! – from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa’s subtropical eastern seaboard. Safer than Johannesburg and more racially integrated than Cape Town, Durban feels like a comfortable...
View ArticleKyoto carry on
Durban: Expectations of a successful outcome here in Durban are, as even the most optimistic would agree, modest. It’s a technique that I find works well enough when applied to my own parties, let...
View ArticleWaste-lifters of the world unite
Durban: As expected for the final day of the international climate negotiations, things are hotting up – press conferences have been cancelled, which is a reliable barometer of such things....
View ArticleConnie the Conqueror
Sydney: Snatched from the jaws of defeat, is how commentators are describing the last-minute climate deal struck in Durban at 5am on Sunday morning, nearly 40 excruciating hours overdue. The victory –...
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