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Category Archives: International
BBC Radio 4′s The World Tonight – Segment on Rio+20
TweetShareI was on BBC Radio 4′s The World Tonight last night, talking about Rio+20 with Bernice Lee of Chatham House and Andrew Hurrell of the University of Oxford. Click here to listen to the programme. The Rio+20 segment starts at … Continue reading
Tom Burke’s political commentary: Durban talks were not a failure for climate policy
TweetShareENDS Report 444, p. 45, January 2012. The latest round of UN climate talks made important progress in a number of areas, including Green Fund governance and the Clean Development Mechanism. Durban did not fail. That is by far and … Continue reading
Tom Burke’s political commentary: Nixon’s environmentalism is a lesson from history
TweetShareENDS Report 438, p. 55, July 2011. Under President Richard Nixon, the US led the world in environmental protection. But his ideologically driven heirs in the Tea Party threaten to destroy this legacy. Modern environmentalism began in the US. In … Continue reading
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Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: New momentum on climate negotiations is now urgently needed
TweetSharePublished in ENDS Report (Issue 420, p49), in January 2010. So what really happened in Copenhagen? And even more importantly, what happens now? Forgive me for troubling you with this topic again, but this was no ordinary meeting. Konrad von … Continue reading
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: Slouching away from Copenhagen: a terrible beauty was stillborn
TweetSharePublished in ENDS Report (Issue 419, p55), in December 2009. They came. They tried. They failed. Not one of the 119 world leaders who attended the Copenhagen summit came intending to shatter a global climate regime so painfully built over … Continue reading
Tom Burke’s Political Commentary: The US returns from the green policy wilderness
TweetSharePublished in ENDS Report (Issue 406, p53), in November 2008. The US is back. The missing voice from the world’s environmental conversation has returned. It has been missing for a long time. Longer than you think. It is nearly 30 … Continue reading
The world and climate change: all together now
TweetSharePublished in openDemocracy, 7th December 2007. A version of this article is also being published by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) The “global” problem of climate change is endlessly discussed, but rarely looked at in a cold … Continue reading
On hanging together
TweetSharePublished on IIED, in Dec 2007. Last year Kofi Annan warned of the growing gap between what scientists say is necessary to avoid dangerous climate change and what politicians are willing to do. Since then concern among climate scientists has … Continue reading
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The G8 and climate change: a campaigners’ scorecard
TweetShareWas the G8 summit good for the prospects of limiting global climate change? Scientists and campaigners comment on the Gleneagles outcome. My answer to this question is below. To see all of the contributions- from Mayer Hillman, Camilla Toulmin &Saleemul Huq, … Continue reading
Emissions Trading
TweetShareWritten for publication in May 2005. Like all good theories, the theory of emissions trading is elegant. Governments establish an overall limit of the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Enterprises are then allocated permits to emit the … Continue reading