A quick update from the final days of the global climate negotiations here in Poznan. United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon opened the high level segment of the event this morning, as delegates sort to salvage something from an intensely disappointing two weeks. He stressed the urgency of reaching an ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey last month, about Climate Change, Politics
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attacked environmental protesters in the country describing them as ‘idle'. After proclaiming himself to be a ‘real environmentalist', referencing Turkish ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, he went on to claim that "being an environmentalist is something they (protesters) do to pass their free ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in September 2008, about Media, Politics, Protest
Editor's Note: This post comes to us courtesy of Tan Copsey of China Dialogue as part of our series on China that we will be running throughout the 2008 Olympics. Despite gloomy pre-games predictions, in Beijing face-masks are yet to join lycra and running shoes as an athletes accessory ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in August 2008, about Air Quality, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Deforestation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Politics, Pollution, Protest
Editor's Note: This post comes to us courtesy of Tan Copsey of China Dialogue. We will be running more posts from Tan throughout the 2008 Olympics. As the Games of the 29th Olympiad open, the world's eyes are focused on China. Despite the best efforts of the Chinese ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in August 2008, about Air Quality, Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Events, Politics, Protest
We're heading in to a challenging few years of international climate change negotiations. In Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders will hopefully agree to a new global agreement on addressing climate change. But the U.S. and some other developed countries continue to play politics on this most crucial of ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in July 2008, about Climate Change, Economics, Emissions, Politics
China has announced a ban on the production, sale and use of ultra-thin plastic bags. Shoppers around the country will also now have to pay for regular plastic bags. According to estimates from the Chinese Plastics Processing Industry Association, one billion bags had been given out by supermarkets every day ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in June 2008
Last week John McCain outlined his plan to fight climate change. In doing so he broke from President Bush’s orthodoxy of inaction and outlined a new conservative line on climate change. The speech has since been analysed and critiqued extensively. But in the end it may be that it ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in May 2008, about Carbon Trading, Politics, Weather
Climate change, it seems, will force migration on a scale never seen before. A few days ago I was in the pleasant surrounds of the British Library where climate luminaries discussed and debated an issue that is increasingly urgent. Professor Norman Myers, who had concluded in 2005, that climate change ... keep reading
Written by Tan Copsey in May 2008, about Events, Politics, War, Weather
