Explaining failure

Robert Manne, a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, has written an excellent article article in The Guardian about why we have not made as much progress on addressing climate change as we could have. This is a sobering review that should give us some food for thought. Climate change: some reasons … Continue reading Explaining failure →

How easy it is for the media to change its coverage of climate issues

We normally expect unbiased, accurate coverage from the major news agencies. Suzanne Goldenberg writes in The Guardian about what happened at Reuters’ news agency because of one climate sceptic senior editor. Rest assured that EiD’s editor is not a climate sceptic. Reuters' climate-change coverage 'fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as editor' Media Matters … Continue reading How easy it is for the media to change its coverage of climate issues →

Linking energy efficiency and climate change

Peter Hannam writes in the Southern Weekly from New South Wales about how important it is to keep up the effort on energy efficiency, even if there is a shift on carbon pricing. Carbon change 'must not halt energy efficiency' Australia's businesses would be wrong to think an earlier-than-planned shift to a floating price … Continue reading Linking energy efficiency and climate change →

What do you know about carbon capture and storage?

Fiona Harvey recently wrote in the Guardian about a research study by the UK Energy Research Council that was trying to better understand what the public thought about the future of energy policy. CCS is considered by the government’s climate advisors to be a major way of helping to take carbon out of electricity generation. … Continue reading What do you know about carbon capture and storage? →

EU Emissions Trading System under the microscope

Nathaniel Keohane and Gernot Wagner provide an excellent analysis in the Financial Times of the Emissions Trading System (ETS). The writers are vice-president for international climate and senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund based in the US. Judge a carbon market by its cap, not its prices The goal of the union’s ETS is … Continue reading EU Emissions Trading System under the microscope →

The on-going debate about global warming and economists

John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli have a regular blog in The Guardian called Climateconsensus – the 97%. In this blog, John Abraham explains why he feels the 2009 publication, SuperFreakonomics, is misleading on climate change. Global Warming and Economists - SuperFreakonomics is SuperFreakingWrong Those who purchased the book SuperFreakonomics are paying to be misled about … Continue reading The on-going debate about global warming and economists →

How Europe is making the transition to green urban transportation

Erica Gies writes in the New York Times about efforts in Europe to integrate the old with the new to develop a much greener approach to urban transit. Examples are given from Austria, France and Germany. In Europe, Greener Transit on Existing Infrastructure Vienna is employing some old-fashioned technology to run shiny new electric buses … Continue reading How Europe is making the transition to green urban transportation →

A novel approach in Norway leads to the winner’s circle

Trust someone from Norway, with the enormous reserves of oil and gas in the country, to come up with an idea to actually pay countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground. Pilita Clark writes in The Financial Times of a prize winning idea by a Norwegian academic. Norwegian’s provocative plan to curb climate … Continue reading A novel approach in Norway leads to the winner’s circle →

The health and wealth of cities

Tim Smedley writes in the Guardian about a new report by the Carbon Disclosure Project that discusses the positive impact of climate change on cities. It will be interesting to see how this is received by the environmental community. Is climate change making cities wealthier and healthier? A new report on climate change action … Continue reading The health and wealth of cities →

There are some things we should not ignore – but we do

If you don’t read everything Andrew Sims writes, you should. Andrew Simms is chief analyst at Global Witness, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and the author of Ecological Debt, Tescopoly and Eminent Corporations. What he does is make us think. This article is must reading. We keep moaning about population, but ignore … Continue reading There are some things we should not ignore – but we do →