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 [...]
COP 15: The hum of expectation
December 9, 2009 by Kath
Filed under Expert Comment, Opinion
Dr Stephen Peake writes about the atmosphere of COP15 in its first few days, from a bride and groom honeymooning there, to the various demonstrators and media gathering at the conference… The atmospheric pull of COP 15 begins the instant I leave home. The taxi driver thinks it’s all too late (only a population [...]
Climate change – the why, what and how
By Dr Stephen Peake, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Technologies Avoiding dangerous climate change: the why, the what, but HOW? The reasons why we need to avoid dangerous climate change have been clearly articulated. So too has the scale of the challenge we face. Governments around the world have adopted the target of reducing global greenhouse [...]
