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Once again, the lobbyists advocating for the interest of carbon intensive industries have managed to prevent EU climate action, guaranteeing a discount rate for pollution in Europe. This disappointing votes brings me back to the starting point of my engagement with the climate movement.
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There are only two days left till COP18 winds down. Yesterday night the negotiations went on till the wee hours…
Read post →UK’s recent pledge of £1.8 billion in climate finance is certainly a big news at COP18. But due to lack of MRV systems in place, it is difficult to tell if the money is new and additional or just a “mistaken articulation for action”
Read post →Bangkok begins with a good old Twitter tease between @EU and @Venezuela
Read post →What can we learn from Syria and London that might help the push for a solar-thermal plant in Port Augusta
Read post →A poem to the RiO+20 negotiators
Read post →I have been a naughty tracker. For today, on the last day of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, I stopped tracking. In fact, I was not even allowed to go into the Rio Centro conference centre this morning as, yesterday, I turned in my accreditation badge. I stepped out of the proceedings, and abandoned my negotiators.
Read post →The first step we take on Monday in transitioning to a green economy, is to realise that we actually…
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Disillusion turned to anger today, when I went along to the reception for UK participants, and had an argument with Nick Clegg! Or, let’s call it a reasoned debate.
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Young people unite in protest against the Rio+20 declaration
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The bigger picture is getting lost as we deal in details.
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A new Sustainable Development pathway has just been created. Here’s the play by play of what happened
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