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Companies serious about climate change should boycott CoP 29

Climate Change,Business,COP27

April 3, 2024

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 year. My advice to them: spare yourselves the hassle.  Just don't send anyone.

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Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism?

Climate Change,Government,Society,Politics,Young People,COP27

March 7, 2024

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 becoming the new climate deniers.

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From CoP 28 to CoP 29: The Road to Hell

Government,Politics,Net Zero,COP27

January 4, 2024

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 replaced by more “balanced” commentaries from governments, businesses and some mainstream NGOs. Three weeks on, even that…

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SO WHAT’S YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE?: COP 28 OR JUST STOP OIL?

Government,COP27,Food

December 4, 2023

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 Sustainable Agriculture”. “Get your heads around new heights of rhetoric about the importance of addressing the methane…

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COP26 is Dead. Long Live COP27!

Climate Change,Nature & Natural Capital,COP27

November 26, 2021

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 everything still to play for – as in Sharm el-Sheikh, in a year’s time. So, is there any reason to suppose we’ll be in a…

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