In yet another in a seemingly endless series of gems of reporting on climate change, energy and sustainability, the “Financial Times” has this today. The report looks at critical developments from sub-national governments from California to Sao Paulo to London and many points in between. There are also interesting ads from TckTckTck and UNDP.
There’s a particularly hard-hitting guest column from Tim Wirth, a climate change stalwart for over two decades, and the head of the UN Foundation. He says, for instance: “However, the fossil fuel barons, the lords of yesteryear, may yet succeed in the US Senate in blocking effective legislation this year. They have wildly exaggerated the economic impact of a carbon cap and portrayed it as a new tax on the hard-pressed American consumer. They encourage those who deny the scientific evidence of global warming, even as it reveals itself more clearly by the day.” Wirth is starkly honest in this.
All in all, very good reading for Climate Week.
