April 3, 2024
Companies serious about climate change should boycott CoP 29
At some point over the next couple of months, Chief Sustainability Officers will be making decisions and recommendations about this year's CoP in Azerbaijan at the end of the…
March 7, 2024
Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism?
This is a bit of a long one! So here’s my “Executive Summary” so you can decide whether to commit the time to the rest of it: mainstream climate scientists run the risk of…
January 4, 2024
From CoP 28 to CoP 29: The Road to Hell
CoP 28 limped to its predictably calamitous conclusion on December 13th. The heavily spun headline (“historic breakthrough”) quickly dribbled away into the sands of Dubai, to be…
December 4, 2023
SO WHAT’S YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE?: COP 28 OR JUST STOP OIL?
The waves of phoney positivity emanating from CoP28 in Dubai are making me feel sick. “Look at our shiny new Loss and Damage Fund”. “Marvel at the new Emirates Declaration on…
November 26, 2021
COP26 is Dead. Long Live COP27!
Glasgow is what it was: not an outright failure, but falling so far short of what is so urgently needed in the real world (1.5 degrees C and all that) as to leave almost…