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what will technology transfer really achieve?
COP15. Three objectives, in a nutshell. First it was mitigation, then the need for adaptation was more widely recognised as developing countries raised their voices and developed nations started seeing they would have to adapt too, particularly as it...
climate scoreboard
The Scoreboard team will follow the negotiations at COP15 in Copenhagen from day to day, and continue tracking progress in the months following the conference, addressing the question: if current proposals for emissions reductions were implemented ho...
climate models are limited, but that\'s not so bad
An analytical post on The Blackboard has raised again the concern I have with climate analysis based on short-term observations. Climate models tied to long-term historical records are all we really have to go on for understanding the relationship be...
developing countries flex their muscles
In an effort to ensure that the west doesn't control the agenda of COP15 in Copenhagen, developing countries have prepared a 10-page declaration of their non-negotiable demands of their own. The idea of a counter draft representing the positions...
IEA still hedging its bets
It's quite astonishing, really, how much store we place in the International Energy Agency's predictions for oil supply, when they are no better than educated guesses. In an interview with George Monbiot in December last year, IEA chief econo...
long-term climate refugees
There are countries, like the US and UK, that occasionally provide temporary homes for people from other countries who have been displaced by natural disasters, as noted by Ann Danylkiw on SolveClimate. But what happens when the natural disasters are...

