US and China agree to sign Climate Change agreement
The White House announced that the U.S. and China countries would sign the Paris Climate Agreement on April 22nd, the Earth-day.President Barack Obama and President…
Policy & Strategy
Paris always worth a mass?
The COP 21 final accord is seen by many as crucial to move world societies towards resilient, low-carbon economies. Not everyone agrees
Rifkin: ‘UN climate talks lack a new economic vision’
The good news is that European cities and regions are at the forefront of the internet revolution which can deliver this promise, he told EurActiv…
Winning ‘hearts and minds’ for the energy transition
For the past three years, the R&Dialogue project has been working on facilitating social acceptance for the transition to a low carbon society. Endorsed by…
Egypt revives Suez dream amid global trade slump and escalating insurgency
Egypt has revived the Suez Canal on a grand scale with a flourish of patriotic fervour, vowing to reignite world trade almost a century and…
How the Border Security Industry Will Profit Hugely From Climate Change
April 24, at the Defense, National Security, and Climate Change Symposium in Washington, D.C., Brigadier General Stephen Cheney stepped up to the podium to discuss…
Obama cancels plans for oil leases in the Arctic
The Obama administration is abandoning plans to open the Arctic Ocean to more drilling in the face of dwindling industry interest and massive environmental opposition….
Climate change? Not now, not in the US
Climate change can do more harm to the U.S. economy than to the environment. This is basically what Florida senator Marco Rubio said when replying to…
Aluminium boss: Chinese dumping a ‘slow death’ for European industry
Unfair Chinese aluminium trading is killing the European industry and, if the country is given market economy status by the European Union, it could have…
A new CDM hub in Bangkok
A new step to promote the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The further boost comes with the establishment of a centre in Bangkok, Thailand, which…
On the road to Paris
100 to go. Developed country Parties under the Kyoto Protocol today enter the final 100 days of the emission reduction treaty’s accounting period during which they ensure…
An inconvenient truth
High expectations are being built around the forthcoming 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will…
Obama’s Crucial Step on Climate Change
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new rule…