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Emissions from aviation are not included in the Kyoto Protocol. Therefore reductions in aviation emissions cannot be taken as a credit to a country’s Kyoto Protocol compliance account. This means that airlines participating in the EU ETS will have to … Continue reading →

Many people now agree that it is vital to make the cost of carbon explicit if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The FT’s leader on 2nd January 2009 emphasises the importance of a carbon tax. There is a … Continue reading →

At COP14 in Poznań, Poland, a remarkable thing happened. A friend lost her mobile phone. The next day I got a call on my phone in Polish. Something like: sywszzw sssz scysrzsłs rzwysz szyszs słsz taxi szrz. I put two … Continue reading →

Climate change negotiators are spending more time on adaptation. Adaptation means helping people adapt to the effects of climate change. It means working out how to grow crops in places where the rain stops falling; how to help countries get … Continue reading →

It takes little more than five minutes in one of the sessions going on at the COP 14 negotiations in Poznan to realise that the UN’s process for fixing the climate problem is a non-starter. In these meetings which constitute … Continue reading →