Renewable energy the way to go
Last night’s Sunday programme on TV1 had a couple of really interesting items on Denmark’s drive towards renewable energy. According to the report they now generate 20 percent of their electricity from...
View ArticleDoes Key know why he is going to Copenhagen?
We all now know Key is off to Copenhagen. Grant Robertson predicted it. But he doesn’t know why? Somehow he thinks he is going to make a difference to the result. We all know that he is only going...
View ArticleNext stop: Copenhagen
A couple of weeks back I said that I would be going to Copenhagen for the COP15 summit. I have decided to go to observe first hand what the world’s leaders finally agree to as well as to get a sense of...
View ArticleCOP15 – I run into another Kiwi in Copenhagen
Here is a photo of me with Aaron Packard, one of the driving forces behind 350 Aotearoa, in the Radhudspladsen in Central Copenhagen, on Sunday afternoon. Aaron has done a terrific job working with...
View ArticleCOP15 – What will come of Copenhagen?
Day 4 for me today. Yesterday, the developing nations staged a walkout from the negotiations. This was largely to dramatise their concern about the developed world’s unwillingness to taken on...
View ArticleKey dumped from climate debate
Reports have emerged that John Key and his ministerial colleagues may have been a bit premature when they started boasting that he would be playing a star role in a BBC debate on climate change later...
View ArticleDr Seuss in Copenhagen
Just as a bit of light relief (with a serious undertone of course) here’s Marcus Brigstocke’s Dr Seuss summary of the Copenhagen summit on the Now Show on BBC4. This link is to the whole show, but if...
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