Copenhagen’s hotting up…
You can always tell when things are coming to a crunch when the game gets dirty. If you are reading this blog, then you are...
Is there a peak oil cover up?
Nov 11, 2009
Until recently I've been agnostic about 'peak oil' - I've been in the "we'll only know when it happens" camp, but as the issue has...
WRI’s plot of global greenhouse gas emissions
Oct 26, 2009
The World Resource's Institute (WRI) has released this wonderful graphic of where the world's greenhouse gases came from in 2005 (in terms of human activity...
Business Opportunities in Climate Change Adaptation
Oct 16, 2009
I was running a CSR workshop with a major international engineering firm yesterday. Given the traditional engineers' reactive (and sometimes reactionary) approach to such 'soft...
A Bumpy Road to Copenhagen… does it matter?
Oct 14, 2009
There's an awful lot of expectation on the COP15 climate change talks at Copenhagen in December. The big carbon emitters have been circling each other...
The last wilderness
Sep 18, 2009
On Tuesday night I was invited to a fundraiser to send a young man, Joe Spedding, on an expedition to the Antarctic as part of...
Global or Local?
Jul 8, 2009
There are reports today that the Copenhagen process to agree a post-Kyoto global climate change agreement will stall as China and India will not play...
Obama’s big moment
Jun 26, 2009
Barack Obama is about to put his climate change bill to Congress (the news story in this month's Low Carbon Agenda was a little premature)....
More free resources
Jun 16, 2009
I've just added two new free resources on the Resources page:1. Climate Change FAQs for Executives - a quick guide to the science of climate...
Some Ideas to Chu On…
May 27, 2009
While the last year has seen Barack Obama hogging the limelight of US politics, his new Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, has...