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By Jennifer Morgan
Who will lead the USA back into a meaningful international engagement on climate change in 2009? And who can Europe work with best?
Those are the questions raised by Stephen Boucher of the thinktank Notre Europe in his recent paper Clinton, Obama, McCain - Europe’s Best Hope for Fighting Climate Change.
Now, as one of a number of responses to Stephen Boucher’s paper, E3G’s Jennifer Morgan
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By E3G Admin
Following on from the publication of Nick Mabey’s report ‘Delivering Climate Security’, BusinessGreen.com have interviewed Nick on the topic, including discussion of the implications for business. The full interview follows below:
“Climate Change represents an existential threat”
Former senior advisor to the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Nick Mabey, warns that governments and businesses
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By Jennifer Morgan
Climate change will be at the top of the agenda when leaders of the world’s major economies gather in Japan for the G8 Summit in July. The science is clear on the need for an ambitious and rapid response. Almost all heads of government now have a basic understanding that without climate security they will be unable to meet their economic or development goals. This makes reducing global
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By Chris Littlecott
E3G Founding Director John Ashton has been interviewed by British Satellite News in his role as Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The interview focussed on the security implications of climate change and the continuing need to change from high carbon to low carbon economies.
The video is hosted on the blip.tv site, and is also embedded here
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By Tom Burke
Other nations will not take Britain’s commitment to tackle climate change seriously if we don’t recognise that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an imperative, not an option, argues Tom Burke in a comment article published in The Parliamentary Monitor.
Crunch time for carbon
Climate change is a bad problem that is getting worse. For the present, it remains a manageable problem. Quite
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By Jennifer Morgan
The Danish newspaper Politiken has published an international comment article written by E3G’s Jennifer Morgan on the necessary elements of an ambitious Copenhagen agreement.
The text in Danish is available here from the E3G website.
Here below follows an English version of the text, which is also attached for download in pdf format.
Climate: Elements of an ambitious agreement in
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By Jennifer Morgan
The Danish newspaper Politiken carries an international comment article written by E3G’s Jennifer Morgan on the necessary elements of an ambitious Copenhagen agreement. The text in Danish follows below and is attached for download in pdf format.
Klima. Elementer til ambitiøs aftale i København
Jennifer L Morgan
Ved klimakonferencen på Bali besluttede verden at slå ind på en helt ny vej
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By Nick Mabey
Back in November, we launched the ‘Changing Climates’ report [4Mb pdf] we authored alongside Chatham House as part of our joint project on Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe.
Since then, a Chinese version has been launched in Beijing, and interest continues to grow around its innovative proposals.
Senior Chinese economist Angang Hu has added his voice to
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By E3G Admin
The 28th February saw the Beijing launch of the ‘Changing Climates’ report from the EU-China Interdependencies project of which E3G is a member.
Since then, interest has continued to grow in the specific proposals put forward.
The journal Chemistry World has reported on the proposals, and includes quotes from our Chinese partner institutions:
Pan Jiahua of CASS, a senior advisor to the
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By Jennifer Morgan
Europe has been hailed as a leader in the fight against global warming, but are its policies really enough to prevent catastrophe? Jennifer Morgan assesses the EU’s recent policy proposals, in a new article published by ChinaDialogue.
To comment on this article, head over to the ChinaDialogue bilingual forum.
EU commitments on climate: strengths and weaknesses
Jennifer Morgan
February 20,
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