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Unveiling its national climate change roadmap yesterday, India made it’s latest move in an ongoing stand-off against the US on Co2 emissions targets. The US has refused to set binding targets as long as rapidly developing nations remain unconstrained in their emissions outputs. Conversely, India is unwilling to reduce its emissions whilst the US […]

Delegates from the latest US sponsored climate talks in Hawaii have given mixed reports on its success, indicating that the initial stand-off between the US, India and China is still very much an issue.
An unnamed EU delegate gave a very positive statement leading to a number of encouraging headlines in conservative newspapers: “I came expecting […]

We have recently talked about climate extremists on both sides of the debate and their negative impact on progress.
We have also lamented the squabbles in the scientific community, the political bandwagon riding and those who go about cherry picking facts and propagating common climate myths. The result of all this is a confused public and […]

2007 was a big year in Climate Change, which saw the US u-turn on climate policy (on the surface at least), the emergence of the EU and the UK as world climate leaders, continued climate record breaking as temperatures soared and the North West passage was opened up, the worldwide release of An Inconvenient Truth, […]

Against expectations US President George Bush has signed a bill mandating a 35mpg fleet average for the American auto industry to be achieved by 2020 amongst other measures aimed at reducing US Co2 emissions.

With the Bali summit finally wrapped up we’ve been reading mixed messages from around the world. Some news outlets are reporting a positive conclusion with the signing of an acceptable deal at the 11th hour, with others taking a more critical view of the results.
So what happened, and what does it mean? Here is our […]

 
Latest news from Bali indicates that a deal may well be possible as the negotiations run in to extra time.
U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer believes that a deal is certain. ”Absolutely. The only question is how long is it going to take to get, how long we will have to stay up to wait […]

Just as we were getting bored of talking about Bali the European Union has added some additional drama, threatening to boycott further talks if the United States continues to”block progress”. The EU claims that  attending the next exotic climate meeting in Hawaii next month would be pointless if the US continues to reject the current […]

 
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon made a rousing speech at the Bali Climate Summit yesterday, outlining the necessity for urgent action by all nations to combat climate change.
“The science is clear. Climate change is happening. The impact is real. The time to act is now.”
“By being creative, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions while promoting […]

The results of poll were announced yesterday, revealing that two thirds of the UK population have no confidence that world leaders can agree on future solutions to climate change at the Bali summit.
But forget future solutions - the world has proven that we can’t even execute previous solutions; Despite the rhetoric of various national leaders, […]

Discussions at Bali got off to a shaky start today after the United States confirmed that it will refuse any mention of emission reduction targets within a draft UN agreement. The agreement is expected to be the focus of this week’s discussion as the Bali conference enters the real negotiation phase.
The draft agreement calls on nations to […]