Suffer the little children
When Rudd recently deferred the main component of his climate change strategy, the CPRS, into the never-never Peter Wood reminded us of a speech that Rudd made at Copenhagen. In ringing tones he called for the assembled leaders “to frame [...]
Copenhagen week two open thread
I thought I’d start this post by reminding us what the task should be at Copenhagen. The above image is from Copenhagen Diagnosis, Figure 22. It is even more demanding than the earlier version we discussed here.
Copenhagen open thread
The Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, or more accurately the UNFCC Conference of Parties 15 (COP 15) will get under way about 11pm our time today. The conference has its own website which features a positive message from UN climate [...]
China commits to quantities in emissions reduction
China has now nominated cutting its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 as a quantitative aim. Given the growth in the economy this will not see emissions peak for some time, probably not for two decades as we discussed in [...]
Climate talks in Bonn inch forward
In Bonn for the last two weeks 4,600 people from 183 countries representing governments, business and interest groups met in Bonn to discuss the draft text for the December climate change meeting in Copenhagen which we looked at in May. [...]
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