Ok let’s get back to reality –as if to underline how great is the challenge on climate change the UN has just released figures showing that gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly entrenched as the biggest polluter.

Reading the British papers today there is a general consensus that the Stern review has changed the political landscape over climate change. Those who have long argued for inaction have finally run out of excuses. The debate about climate change is over. Now is the time for action.
According to the Independent “what Sir Nicholas Stern [...]

Whilst Sir Nicholas Stern’s report continues to receive blanket media coverage in the UK, Washington remains largely uninterested. Look at the New York Times and the Stern report is mentioned half-way through a report entitled “Budgets Falling in Race to Fight Global Warming”.
Outraged by he sees as America’s inability to respond to the seriousness of [...]

Tony Blair has called it the most important document report that he has ever received in ten years of being Prime Minister. For the last eighteen months ex-World Bank economist, Sir Nicholas Stern, has been working on a report for the British government on climate change. It is published before the next round of negotiations [...]

Here is the official news: Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has driven the FTSE London market to a new five-and-a-half year high, as shares in the company lifted 3 per cent after its third quarter figures came in better than expected, despite a 34 per cent fall in net earnigs. The decline in profits was [...]