Last week ‘The Reverend’ Tony Blair announced that he had been working with a group of climate change experts since he left office, and that he thinks the problem is extremely urgent (1). He said that failing to act on climate change “would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible” and that the UN is “the right [...]
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Tony Blair to solve Climate Change!
Posted in China, Climate Change, UN, tagged Climate Change, Glacier, Global Warming, Shell, Tony Blair, UN on 18 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The China Excuse
Posted in China, Climate Change, Energy, UN, tagged , China, Climate Change on 13 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It has to be one of the most common things people say when discussing climate change issues. “But what about China? How can we really do anything about global warming when they are building twenty million new coal power stations a minute?”
Okay, I exaggerated slightly to make a point there, but we’ve all heard the [...]
Bali, the US, and beyond Kyoto
Posted in Climate Change, UN, tagged , Bali, Climate Change, UN on 10 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Representatives of 180 countries are in Bali at the moment to talk about Climate Change, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. They’ve got almost two weeks to talk about a “roadmap for a future international agreement on enhanced global action to fight climate change in the period after 2012” (1), in what is the [...]
