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Entries from Jonathon Porritt tagged with 'co2'

Bali - the final analysis

So that’s Bali done: a binding timetable agreed – for more talks through to the end of 2009. And an agreement for something more substantial to slow deforestation - by 2013. Against such meagre pickings, I wonder how Bali will...

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Posted on December 19, 2007 9:27 AM

Bali

Bali discussions duly chuntering on. And my heart goes out to all those poor NGO stalwarts who have to sit there day after day listening to the mind-crushing mediocrity of most government delegations. By way of inspiring contrast, I have...

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Posted by JP on December 10, 2007 9:28 AM

Shattering the government silos with pedal power?

The biggest frustration for anyone watching governments make such a horlicks of sustainable development is their apparent inability to make the connections between different policy silos. So here are three seemingly “separate issues”: the increase in levels of obesity –...

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Posted on September 26, 2007 4:08 PM

NFU and vegans

I’m in trouble with the NFU. Not my fault, it has to be said, but a no doubt wonderful organisation called the Redditch Vegetarians and Vegans has issued an ‘eco-poster’ directly attributing these words me: “You make a bigger contribution...

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Posted on July 30, 2007 5:17 PM

Population: boom and bust

Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: (PDF) do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children – or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the...

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Posted on May 17, 2007 8:03 PM