Nothing is agreed until everything else is agreed

By Dr Stephen Peake Over the past week or so, a great deal of routine housekeeping work has been achieved on various agenda items under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol. The texts of most of this work are now, as is customary, bracketed (this is how Governments signal discontent with the texts) and being [...]

Global agreements – a false sense of security?

by Dr Stephen Peake COP15 will be our third big global punch up on climate change. The first was the establishment of the UNFCCC at the Earth Summit in 1992. The second was in Kyoto in 1997. It’s ten years since I left the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in [...]