Lima to the Sundarbans, is change coming fast enough?
Its time for Bangladesh to walk away from fossil fuels, and become a global leader in renewable energy development. If not, we will suffer even greater disasters than the Sundarbans oil spill.
At What Expense?
As I wrote yesterday, the decisions undertaken under the UNFCCC do not operate in a vacuum, and reflect the power disparities between the north and the south. We see that happening again in the last hours of...
The Time For Difficult Decisions
It is clear that the urgency of this moment in addressing climate change is now not being denied by anyone except nutjobs and those on industry paychecks. The UNFCCC Lima climate change conference started 12...
And the Movement Continues to Grow
Less than three months ago, I followed the New York People’s Climate March live on the news and felt deeply inspired even through the screen. Though I was upset that I could not be present physically with...
The Forest First, Please!
I’m sitting in a session of the Durban Platform which has been tasked with a mega-project to save the world – including, among other things, delivering an agreement to keep temperature rise to less than 2...
What Are We Doing in Lima?
Whether you are a minister, negotiator, observer, reporter, secretariat member, support staff, or Shell employee here in Lima attending the 20th UN conference, you probably have significant appreciation (or...