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Finance – Post-Copenhagen (and Gordon Brown Takes on the Denialists Again)
February 13, 2010 3 min. read

There was, of course, a lot of coverage from me, and much of the rest of the world it seems, on the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen in December – before, during and since.  One of the critical agreements to come out of the conference was on finance.  Pledges were made by […]

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Food Miles
January 22, 2010 3 min. read

I wrote here a while ago about food miles – see under Transportation of Food.  I looked at two arguments:  that the long distances we transport food has a discernible impact on the production of greenhouse gases – and that it doesn’t.  From what I’ve been reading over the past couple of years, the weight […]

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Betting on Copenhagen
November 23, 2009 6 min. read

There are all sorts of prognoses for what’s going to happen in a couple of weeks at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP15).  Some are calling this the most important international meeting of minds since the Bretton Woods and San Francisco conferences created much of the political architecture for the postwar […]

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