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By Chris Littlecott
Together with our friends at openDemocracy, and the support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a new blog - Global Deal: the politics of climate change.
Global Deal launched at the UNFCCC meeting in Bali in December 2007 with frequent reports and insider access from David Steven.
Global Deal investigates new pathways in the international politics of
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By Chris Littlecott
We would like to invite you to a meeting to be co-hosted by Chatham House and the European Policy Centre in Brussels on 22nd November 2007 to discuss the key findings of the project ’Interdependencies on Energy and Climate Security for China and Europe’.
The authors of the report will set out some concrete policy options to strengthen the foundation for engagement on energy and climate
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By Tom Burke
The 2007 Annual Conference of the Conservative Women’s Organisation was on the theme of “creating a better world for future generations”, and featured the topic of climate change.
E3G Founding Director was one of the participants. His speech follows below, and is attached as a pdf for download.
Security, Prosperity, and Climate Change
Address to the Conservative Women’s Conference
November
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By Nick Mabey
The economics of climate change is lagging behind the science. We need to improve on this quickly if we are to take the right investment decisions.
So argues Nick Mabey in this E3G opinion article. A pdf download version is also published here.
Investing in the Economics of Climate Security
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Fourth Assessment
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By Jennifer Morgan
China and Europe share similar concerns when it comes to energy security and the future of our changing climate. Increased cooperation lights the way ahead.
So writes Jennifer Morgan in an article featured on the new ‘Changing Climates’ forum hosted by chinadialogue.
Rising to the challenge of interdependency
There is no more powerful dynamic at work in the world today than the economic
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By Bernice Lee and Nick Mabey
Europe must work with China to produce the next industrial revolution – the creation of a low-carbon economy. But that will take real vision and political courage.
So write Bernice Lee & Nick Mabey in an article published in Chatham House’s magazine The World Today. The article is also featured on the new ‘Changing Climates’ forum hosted by chinadialogue.
As the world wakes up to the
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By Chris Littlecott
Launching today on the website of chinadialogue is a new forum for debate on energy security and climate change.
The European Union and China – respectively, the world’s largest single market and the fastest growing economy – share similar concerns regarding energy security and climate change. Facing mutual, interlinked challenges for decades to come, neither Europe nor China can respond
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By Chris Littlecott
To mark the 60th anniversary of India’s independence, our partners at the Centre for Social Markets (CSM) have published a powerful new pamphlet calling for enlightened leadership on the greatest challenge facing our times - climate change.
Sixty years on from India’s Independence, the country is a rising global star with ambitions to match. But global climate change could wreck that rosy
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By Quentin de Molliens
The Reuters website carries an article looking at the 2007 Ny-Ålesund Symposium on global climate change and the changing Arctic, which has just taken place close to the polar circle in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.
This was an international event held from 20-22 August where politicians and scientists from 13 nations met to discuss climate change issues.
In attendance at the seminar was
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By Chris Littlecott
Following in the footsteps of California, Florida is the latest state in the USA to push forward with efforts to respond to climate change.
Governor Charlie Crist held a two-day conference last week to explore how Florida can take a lead in reducing emissions and securing its future in the face of sea level rises.
In attendance at the conference was E3G Founding Director John Ashton in his
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