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Cancun backslapping is premature
“Cancun has saved the UN climate process, if not the climate” was the general media conclusion to the latest annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties that concluded yesterday. Certainly the so-called multilateral ‘Cancun Agreements’ is an improvement on the limp Copenhagen Accord that emerged from last year’s fractious COP meeting but to hail [...]
Asia-Pacific businesses must not wait for climate legislation
Conventionally, climate action has been a top-down process, with businesses awaiting legislation before adapting their climate management processes. But in the Asia-Pacific region there are signs that growing business concern over the impact of climate change on their industry could see climate legislation pre-empted by corporate action. This sentiment is endorsed by a new survey [...]
A dying process
Not much was expected at last week’s UN climate talks in Tianjin, and very little was delivered. Optimists are talking of progress toward a $100bn annual fund transfer from rich to poor countries to assist with climate change adaptation, although not unsurprisingly the recipients claim the sum is inadequate. And even if the fund is [...]
Green rhetoric has to be replaced with workable climate policy action
Politics has always been a colorful discipline yet the only colour that seemingly matters today is green. When David Cameron became leader of the UK Conservative party he coined the phase “vote blue, go green”, to reinforce his party’s environmental conscience. Then in May the new prime minister promised that the new coalition government would [...]
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