Tag Archives: Copenhagen
International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]
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UK and India Proves That Not All Of Copenhagen Was All Talk And No Action
Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.
Copenhagen was full of hot air, right? Commitments by developed and developing nations fell short of the mark then and have since been further scaled back, correct? There’s no hope for further progress on the international response to climate change, is there?
Some countries have other ideas.
The Copenhagen agreement was a complicated beast, and although most [...]
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After Copenhagen, The Carbon Tariff Trade Wars Begin
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ross.
In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, the industrialised world looked back at the lessons of the 1930s and realised that the fastest way out of recession was to avoid protectionist trade wars and to keep international markets as open as possible, in order to try to keep trade flowing as freely as possible [...]
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After Copenhagen, What Is Business As Usual?
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
Copenhagen was supposed to start the world on a path to fighting climate change, but with the talks largely derided as meaningless what now constitutes business as usual?
The Copenhagen conference descended into diplomatic farce at the 11th hour, with agreements negotiated over weeks, months and years between 192 countries discarded in a meeting between just [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 6: Technology Transfer v Green Jobs
Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
In the final part of our Copenhagen Conference Focus, we look at the only thing which the politicians and negotiators are likely to agree to at the ailing summit: the need for technology transfer of energy efficiency technology and renewable energy to developing countries.
All the commitments on this issue came early in the conference, with [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 5: Funding The Fight In Developing Countries
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
The developing world holds developed countries responsible for the impending effects of climate change, given that industrial revolutions in the Western world and the subsequent economic activity is responsible for most of the world’s atmospheric carbon dioxide. The historic emissions from the USA alone amount to 30% of the world’s atmospheric carbon.
This had led to [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 4: Aviation And International Shipping
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
One part of the Copenhagen conference trying to quietly slip under the radar is the inclusion on shipping and aviation emissions into national carbon reduction targets.
Few people remain ignorant of the environmental cost of flying: worldwide aviation emissions have risen by 50% since 1990 on the back of cut-price aeroplane operators and rising affluence. (Having [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 3: Deforestation and REDD
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
The Copenhagen Conference is all about carbon reduction. Reducing industrial carbon emissions and reducing economic carbon intensity tends to gain the mainstream attention for the impact that it may have on the quality of life of Westerners, but one of the main sources of man-made carbon emissions is not from the developed world but the [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 2: Enforcing Commitment
Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
In Part 2 of our look at the areas of debate in the Copenhagen Conference, we’re looking at the framework needed to enforce whatever carbon reduction commitments are made by the world’s leaders, and why the Kyoto protocol cherished by poorer nations is now under fire from both ends of the pollution spectrum as not [...]
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Copenhagen Conundrum 1: National Carbon Emissions Targets and the Danish Text
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
As part of a series of posts surrounding the diplomatic shenanigans currently occuring in Copenhagen this month, Energy-Saving News focuses on a selection of the key areas of debate standing between the world’s countries and a meaningful global accord against the looming prospect of climate change.
In the first of these posts, we’re talking targets - [...]
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Obama Shows US Cards Early In Copenhagen Climate Poker
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
For the last couple of months, all the expectation placed on the Copenhagen Conference was that it would fail, despite some nations believing there to be no Plan B. That the USA could commit to nothing because of the stalled legislation in the Senate, and that other countries would feel no need to adopt stringent [...]
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