Copenhagen climb-down
A general scaling-down of ambition in tackling global heating is taking place ahead of the COP-15 – the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,...
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Heartwarming moment
The Danish police response to protests at the Copenhagen climate change conference has led to accusations of heavy-handedness and an excessive state response to a largely legitimate demonstration. It...
View ArticleCopenhagen: facing failure
As the Copenhagen climate conference appears to be drawing to an inglorious end, it is worth reflecting on the basic problem for environmental policy: in most cases, environmental problems only get...
View ArticleEU failure in the COP-15 cop out
The Copenhagen debacle shows one thing very clearly: the European Union has minimal political clout to influence international climate negotiations. As I noted in a previous post, in the Copenhagen...
View ArticleI’m impressed…
…by Connie Hedegaard. Her pronouncements in the European Parliament this afternoon (9 March) mark an abrupt change of direction for European Union climate policy on a number of points. First, she wants...
View ArticleClimate system scandal
Look closely enough at yesterday’s European Commission communication on ‘moving beyond a 20 percent greenhouse gas reduction’ and you will spot a scandal. It’s on page 3 and it reads like this: ‘With...
View ArticleClimate change: still happening
Blink and you’ll have missed it because it has attracted little media coverage, but 2010 was the warmest year on record. According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the global average...
View ArticlePlanning pollution in Estonia
A European Commission state aid notice published on March 23 has shown how EU member state governments can work directly against agreements they make at EU level, in this case on combatting climate...
View ArticleThe appliance of Italian science
Research scientists in Italy seem to have been particularly busy last week, publishing at least three significant reports. The first was about an apparent finding that needs to be proved and may or may...
View ArticleWeather overground
Let’s talk about the weather. It’s been terrible. In northern Europe, summer has so far been a wash out. Russia has seen disastrous and deadly flooding. Last week I was in China and there was a...
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