Nigel Sizer’s 10th and final post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked of Monday, December 3rd. Into extra time! After a second sleepless night and dramatic wrangling all day, by mid-afternoon the United States capitulated and “joined … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 9th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked off Monday, December 3rd. (Note: Today was supposed to be last day of the conference, but negotiations stalled and carried over into Saturday) The Forests COP? Negotiators agreed … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 8th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked of Monday, December 3rd. Rare’s Arlington neighbor, AES Corporation is here in force. Today their CEO announced plans to invest $600 million in energy plants in Indonesia and … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 7th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked of Monday, December 3rd. Ministers step up UNEP’s head, Achim Steiner, was characteristically eloquent today. “There is the Bali of the brackets and the Bali of action,” … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 7th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked off Monday, December 3rd. Waking up to tropical deforestation Ten years ago when I worked at World Resources Institute, we encouraged the world to include efforts … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 6th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked off Monday, December 3rd. As we head into the second week of the Bali climate marathon the roads are becoming clogged with motorcades as 130 ministers … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 5th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked off on Monday, December 3rd. Can we connect the poor with global carbon markets? The poor are already suffering from climate change and they are most … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 4th post from the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, which kicked off on Monday, December 3rd. This afternoon, I stepped out of the side events on science, poverty and climate change impacts, and headed round the corner … Continue reading
Nigel Sizer’s 3rd post from the UN Climate Change Conference, which kicked off on Monday, December 3rd in Bali. Think about this… Next time you drive instead of taking public transport, leave your computer or TV on standby all night, … Continue reading
This is Nigel Sizer’s 2nd post from the UN Climate Change Conference, which kicked off Monday, December 3rd in Bali. Strange Bedfellows! The best way to learn anything at these huge governmental meetings is to leave the governments to do … Continue reading