Throughout the middle of May, the Parties to the Paris Agreement met in Bonn to continue negotiations relating to its implementation. Of particular interest to …
Category: Paris COP21
Invoking uncertainty can be perilous
The past couple of weeks have seen something of a storm of protest directed at Bret Stephens of the New York Times, following the publication of his first …
Carbon pricing in 2016
Given that 2016 marked the first full year of climate policy development after COP21 in Paris and was the year in which leaders lined up …
Debating the global temperature goal
Within the Decision Text supporting the Paris Agreement, paragraph II.21 calls on the IPCC as follows; 21. Invites the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to …
Pathways from the Paris Agreement
As COP21 concluded I was reminded of a quote by Otto von Bismarck, ‘Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being …
Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions
Three years ago when Shell released their New Lens Scenarios, the two views of the future looked out far beyond previous scenarios, taking in the …
Where are we now?
Last week I presented a simple analysis of the temperature data over the last 50+ years which showed that there was good reason to think …
A new reality to come to terms with
The first UNFCCC talks since the adoption of the Paris Agreement are now underway and the various delegations are getting down to the tough task …
A vision for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Within the Paris Agreement sits Article 6, a carefully crafted set of provisions to foster, in the parlance of the UNFCCC and the Parties to …
Rapid progress for electric vehicles?
The last few weeks have brought great excitement for electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts with the announcement of the Tesla Model 3 and the subsequent filling …
