Will Doha tolerate climate protests at COP18?
Locating the UN climate talks in Qatar may prove controversial if activists are banned from street protest. Greenpeace is in talks with the government. A new Arab Youth Climate Movement will bring a...
View ArticleObama owes favour to Doha climate change talks
Many observers believe that Hurrican Sandy swung the election for President Obama. With the COP18 climate change talks set to open in Doha, it's time for a payback.
View ArticleIt’s not the Emir who’s impacted by climate change
I’m very tied up over this period with reporting on the latest round of UN climate talks, COP18 in Doha. It’s a live blog, similar to my work for the Durban COP last year. My highlight of a week which...
View ArticleAl-Attiyah entertains Doha climate negotiators
Two weeks of complex UN negotiations end in two minutes of mayhem as the excitable President of COP18, Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, swings his gavel. "Hearing no objections, I decided."
View ArticleFriedman and Sachs unmoved by Obama’s climate conversion
Speaking today at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, Thomas Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs have lambasted the US political system and questioned Obama’s supposedly reawakened interest in climate...
View ArticleSir Porritt and Lord John in Delhi comedy of manners
Jonathon Porritt and Lord Prescott made telling contributions on climate change at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS).
View ArticleKeystone XL impact study: pipeline safe from global warming!
The Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline inadvertently argues against its own conclusion in a bizarre chapter about climate change.
View ArticleJohn Ashton pulls no punches in climate arena
Since retiring from the Foreign Office last year, John Ashton has given a series of forthright speeches on climate change. Why does he omit the predicament of the most vulnerable countries?
View ArticleRed line in Red List of Ecosystems
A new research paper brings the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems closer to reality. But why is the scientific basis so silent on the subject of climate change?
View ArticleThe sublime, the climate and Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton writes about the inadequacy of language to describe nature. Perhaps it's no surprise that climate scientists can't explain what's being lost.
View ArticleClimate change and art: just good friends
Is this a climate change poem which I see before me? I certainly hope so, because art in all its forms has the potential to succeed, where conventional channels of communication have so spectacularly...
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