Tagged: Economist

Can Cancún’s COP deliver? - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Nov 30, 2010 •

• Cancun,
• Climate business,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• COP16,
• Copenhagen,
• cranks,
• Economist,
• Guardian,
• Mexico,
• Monckton,
• UN

Another year, another Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, number 16 in a series that looks set to run and run. Mexico is the host, Cancún the seaside resort where thousands of diplomats, negotiators, activists and apparatchiks are gathering to have another go at sorting out a successor [...] … Read More

What becomes of the broken Hartwell? - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 13, 2010 •

• BBC,
• Climate politics,
• COP15,
• Copenhagen,
• CRU,
• Economist,
• email,
• Gwyn Prins,
• Hartwell

Calls for a radical re-framing of policies to deal with climate change are intuitively attractive — after all, current national and international policies don’t seem to be doing much to curb rising emissions. The latest effort comes from a group of developed world academics brought together by London School of Economics professor Gwyn Prins, and [...] … Read More