Doha – A Turning Point for Climate Talks?
Trying to thrash out a climate deal in a city built on oil and gas is like debating drugs policy in Afghanistan. That is; a good idea. The sight of a few LNG vessels pulling away to deliver vital...
View ArticleWhat do the EU and UNFCCC have in common?
Tony Blair arrived back in the UK to thrust his well worn stick into another bee’s nest issue over the weekend - this time Europe. I hope our leaders were listening. Blair’s cosy relationship with...
View ArticleOffsets Put Green Air Travel Within Reach
Air travel makes the world smaller – connecting businesses and allowing individuals to travel the world – adding to GDP as well as bringing pleasure into people’s lives. But jet engines don’t run on...
View ArticlePacific Rim Can Diffuse Carbon Bomb
Pacific Rim Countries Can Diffuse Carbon Bomb In a troubling report this week commissioned by Greenpeace, Ecofys has identified 14 fossil fuel projects that could add 20% to the world’s carbon...
View ArticleIf the UN won’t Offset, Who Will?
Offsetting is not everyone’s preferred form of environmental action. But when you run the biggest mechanism for generating offsets on the planet, you think you might have bought in. Not so. The UN...
View ArticleBorder Carbon Adjustments – Tariff Reform for the 21st Century
There is a radical idea doing the rounds. So radical in fact that in years gone by, earlier forms of the idea have brought down governments, destroyed political parties, even brought the country to the...
View ArticleOn a Warm Summer’s Evening – DECC Plays the Gambler
It was no lesser authority than Kenny Rogers who revealed in his 1978 country classic that ‘Every gambler knows; the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep’. It is...
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