Wouldn’t you want to mill your own flour?
So today it was my turn in the climate change hot seat here at the World Bank in Washington. The highlight of my day was being able to approve an exciting new programme called Scaling-up Renewable...
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Blog Action Day | The heat is on
When it comes to climate change, things are hotting up. I don’t just mean in the way many people are aware of – that is, that global temperatures are getting warmer and the world needs to act now if...
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A brotherly challenge on climate change
Cows - big methane culprits? It’s funny, I’ve got the Copenhagen conference coming out of my ears - trying to keep up with latest developments, seeing where the sticking points are – yet one of the...
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Brotherly challenge, part 2: low carbon development
Brotherly challenge: managed to get him along to the Prove It exhibition over the weekend As I said in my last post, my brother and I have been debating climate change through the unexpected medium of...
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Brotherly challenge, part 3: should individuals reduce their emissions?
Low energy bulbs are one way individuals can reduce their carbon emissions. (Credit: Joe Colburn) In discussing the ongoing climate conversation I'm having with my brother in my last two blogs, I've...
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Some hope or all nope: did anything concrete come out of Copenhagen?
There might have been 15,000 people in the conference centre for last month's climate change negotiations at Copenhagen, and thousands more stuck in the cold outside trying to get in, but I wasn't one...
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A guest in Manila
Last week I went to Manila, where over 300 representatives of developing countries, civil society, indigenous peoples, local communities and the private sector came together for the Climate Investment...
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Saving the forests – and the chimps
Chimpanzees in Budongo Forest Reserve: a mother and baby from the troop that has been habituated to humans' presence in order to ensure the chimps' protection After all the excitement of the elections,...
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Economics and environmentalism: Never the twain?
Last week I wrote about the importance of protecting our forests. But earlier this week I heard one of the world’s leading development economists say that, “sometimes the right thing to do is to cut...
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Low carbon, high hopes
The greatest challenge in my job is when I hear colleagues from developing countries ask how they’re supposed to tackle climate change when they have a hundred other development issues to think about....
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