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International climate change event (COP19): Warsaw, December 2013 … succinct reflections for a meeting with the Welsh natural resources minister This personal account of COP19 was submitted to a meeting of the ‘climate change commission for Wales’ (CCCW) with Alun Davies, Welsh…
21 Nov. 2013. Warsaw’s widening climate chasm could lead to 4°C of global warming. The Guardian Report by Graham Readfearn highlighting the chasm between international climate change negotiations and what the science demonstrates is necessary to meet the international community’s…
21 Nov. 2013. Make the rich change their ways to avoid a 2°C rise The Guardian John Vidal reports on a presentation I and my colleague Alice Bows-Larkin gave at the 2013 international climate change negotiations in Warsaw (COP19). The talk revealed how…
Below is an open letter (dated 13th Dec. 2013) to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, outlining how, if the EU is to “set in stone a commitment to cap the temperature increase at 2 degrees Celsius”…
Dec. 2013. Piece for the British Science Association. People & Science An invited article summarising my concerns over the emergent conspiracy of silence amongst policy-makers, business leaders and many scientists as to the political and economic repercussions of science-based carbon-budgets…
Don’t shoot the messenger: why disliking a conclusion is not a good basis for disregarding it. “… for a reasonable probability of avoiding the 2°C characterisation of dangerous climate change, the wealthier (Annex 1) nations need, temporarily, to adopt a…
21 Nov. 2013. “We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis Democracy Now Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviewed Alice Bows-Larkin and I about our research and our contribution to the Warsaw international negotiations…
27 Oct 2013 Is fuel fuel tax (& carbon prices) the best way to control emissions The Voice of Russia Rajenda Pachauri, the Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), asserts that the financial markets are humanity’s…
15 Oct. 2013 Report on presentation during National Ethical Investment Week Blue&green tomorrow … Anderson notes how the Government’s introduction of tax breaks for shale gas, it’s rejection of a 2030 decarbonisation target for electricity generation and support for both exploitation of the Arctic and record…
1 Oct. 2013. Plan to use financial markets to halt climate change is ‘doomed’ The Independent The Independent pick up on an earlier article Why carbon prices can’t deliver the 2°C target to counter Dr Pachauri (chair of the IPCC)…