A report by the Global Carbon Project, published today has highlighted how global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion tonnes this year.
UN Climate Talks
Coal Industry Told to Leave Reserves in the Ground
At a Coal Summit in Warsaw today, the coal industry was told it had to leave most of the existing coal reserves in the ground
Poland’s Billion Dollar Bet on Coal
Irony: On the one hand you have the Polish government hosting the UN climate talks in Warsaw, where the talk is all about the emerging climate crisis being driven by fossil fuels. On the other hand, the Polish government is pressing ahead with building a $3.7 billion dirty coal plant which may never be profitable.
The “Corporate Captured” COP
They say history never repeats itself, but a year ago at the United Nations climate talks in Doha, a typhoon hit the Philippines, killing hundreds of people and leaving an estimated quarter of million people homeless.
“Still barreling down the highway to a dangerously warming world”
Not much was expected of the UN’s 18th conference on climate change in Doha, Qatar, and not much was delivered.
Golden Opportunity or Wasted Opportunity?
It is always difficult writing something positive about the UN climate change talks. So will the latest round of climate talks at Doha be any different?
A Small Window of Opportunity At Cancun
It has been adundently clear that since the Midterms, any small lingering hopes of a domestic push on climate legislation are dead in the water. As the Washington Post argued recently: “This is what the 2010 midterm elections will change about U.S. climate policy: Cap-and-trade was dead. Now it will be deader.” And the political … Read More