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Can Climate Campaigns Reach 9 Million MPH?
In haste, but because we were recently asked by a climate campaigner friend; can there be a Make Poverty History (MPH) campaign for climate change? From memory, MPH persuaded its supporters in the UK to take more than 9 million … Continue reading
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The Politics of Climate Change … Again
If the Australian electorate used last week’s poll to speak out on climate change, it certainly did not do so without equivocation. With three parliamentary seats left to fill with certainty, the results to date suggest a vote evenly split … Continue reading
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Why Is A US Climate Bill So Elusive?
According to at least one US commentator, Senate climate and energy legislation is now as dead as the parrot in Monty Python’s famous sketch. Without rehearsing the possible scenarios for introducing the bill at a later stage or the ins-and-outs … Continue reading
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The Politics of Climate Change
A primer for the last in ippr’s A Climate of Politics events series (9.00am, ippr, Tuesday 29 June 2010) In partnership with Christian Aid and WWF-UK and with technical assistance from Cisco Systems, ippr – Political Climate’s parent organisation – … Continue reading
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Stoking the Eskom Debate
Before we start, it’s important to make two things very clear. First, Political Climate thinks that building new coal-fired power stations without emissions abatement is unwise on climate grounds. Second, we think subsidies for the capital costs of new electricity … Continue reading
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Copenhagen’s Carcass
Six months on and commentators continue to pick the last morsels of analysis off the carcass of the 15th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen. The UK’s Guardian, for instance, has had a couple of goes at this piece, which … Continue reading
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Climate Policy Crisis
US and Australian shelves are suddenly straining under the weight of planned climate change policies. In the space of a few days, American Democrats appear to have put climate and energy legislation on hold in favour of a Senate bill … Continue reading
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India and Climate Negotiations
India has often been seen as an awkward customer in international processes. While this is indubitably true in the climate negotiations, it is not merely because of negotiating style. Rather, it is down to India’s complex national interests, which are … Continue reading
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BASIC Indian Considerations
India and China are so often mentioned in the same breath, especially in climate change negotiations. Prior to Copenhagen, they joined up with Brazil and South Africa to form the BASIC grouping. But many in Delhi are asking a two-pronged … Continue reading
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Indian Political Climate
Political Climate is off to India for a few days to participate in an event looking at linkages between technology, economic opportunities and finance. It’s being organised by TERI which partners with ippr in the Global Climate Network of think … Continue reading
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