UK's More4 News - reports the outcome of the Bali Environmental Change Conference with some considerable scepticism, highlighting the significance of what was NOT agreed. Charlie Kronick of GreenPeace is quoted about the absence of targets. Kevin Konrad of Papua New Guinea delegation is shown attacking the US delegation position at Bali and being applauded by the Bali Conference and then widely reported by all news reports. UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn is interviewed trying to place a positive spin on what was achieved, but that in turn is set in context with an interview with the Director of Global Warming Policy at the US's Competitive Enterprise Institute, Myron Ebell.
Lifestyle changes made by a north London family in order to discover ways of reducing their CO2 footprint and and developing a more sustainable way of living. The BBC Panorama series broadcast this item at the beginning of March 2007.
2500 scientists issue their latest report on Climate Change at a conference in Paris. http://www.citoyensdelaterre.fr Webcast of the conference, papers and reports of the various workshops etc can be accessed via: http://www.ipcc.ch
"Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to 'Manufacture Uncertainty' on Climate Change" http://ucsusa.org/ Discussed by: Ben Stewart - Head of media at Greenpeace UK Lord Monckton of Brenchley - Climate Commentator Interview Author of UCS Report about the report at: http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com.nyud.net:8090/ecotalkblog/files/Segment_01_Airdate-1_3_07.mp3 Video of: Al Jazeera "Inside Story" 4th January 2007
BBC Newsnight program about the IPCC report of 2nd February 2006, released at the Paris Conference. Full details including the report and an audio webcast of the proceedings from the Paris conference can be found on the website for the IPCC at: http://www.ipcc.ch
Washington talks on 14th 15th February 2007 appear deadlocked between "what might be achievable" and "what might be necessary", with Germany challenging Blair's preparedness to compromise targets to secure his personal legacy.
BBC1 main evening news report about the UN Intergornmental Panel on Climate Change Conference, Paris - day 1 - 2nd February 2007. http://www.citoyensdelaterre.fr Webcast of the conference, papers and reports of the various workshops etc can be accessed via: http://www.ipcc.ch
BBC News 24 update item about the IPCC report of 2nd February 2006, released at the Paris Conference, carries a brief interview with Saleem Huq due to release the next report, due out in April 2007. Full details including the report and an audio webcast of the proceedings from the Paris conference can be found on the website for the IPCC at: http://www.ipcc.ch
CNN Business section news on the report by the IPCC Webcast of the conference, papers and reports of the various workshops etc can be accessed via: http://www.ipcc.ch
The UK's leading independent TV Channel hosts a feature item about what local actions can and are being taken in the South East of the UK to address the Climate Change Debate at the time the Government was introducing the Climate Change Bill.
9th February press conference in London, with Richard Branson proving himself the ever-able self-publicist par-excellence !
Further to the Branson-Gore competition, the Richard and Judy show on UK's Channel4 do a follow-up look at some of the ideas, and pre-announce a film to show on the BBC on Monday.
"Inter-American Court of Human Rights" to consider indigenous people's case that US refusal to cap emissions is contributing to melting ice (polar ice-caps reduced by 14% since 2004) and thawing permafrost is violating Inuit people's human rights. Interviews with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit spokeswoman, and Martin Wagner, Earthwatch lawyer. The process likely to take years". Al Jazeera Report 3rd March 2007.
Jeremy Paxman, anchor person of the BBC's flagship Current Affairs Newsnight show, presented this program on 21st December 2005, arguably a watershed item in the BBC's presentation of energy issues and climate change. Paul Mason: "The end of the oil age - Running on empty?" BBC Science Editor Susan Watts: "The end of the oil age - What cost to the planet?" BBC Historian Greg Neale: "The end of the Oil age - What comes next?" Discussed by: James Howard Kunstler, Author: The Long Emergency Tom Burke, Academic and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, who has advised Rio Tinto on environmental issues. Richard Dean North, writer and Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Sonia Shah, Author: Crude - a History of Oil. Professor Paul Ormerod, Author: Why Most things Fail. Professor Felipe Fernandez Armesto - Author: Ideas that Changed the World.
Review of the Stern Report Recommendations, and an interview with Sir Nicholas Stern himself, followed by a GEEK Report on the technological 'fixes' that are being floated. Link below will start another Newsnight item debating the Stern Report from the Newsnight website (wmv - 16 min): http://news.bbc.co.uk/media_acl/avdb/news/video/63000/bb/63699_16x9_bb.asx
ABC News - report about the Paris Conference and of the report by the IPCC. http://www.citoyensdelaterre.fr Webcast of the conference, papers and reports of the various workshops etc can be accessed via: http://www.ipcc.ch
BBC News 24 program about the IPCC report of 2nd February 2006, released at the Paris Conference. Full details including the report and an audio webcast of the proceedings from the Paris conference can be found on the website for the IPCC at: http://www.ipcc.ch
BBC News 24 interviews Patrick Michael of the Cato Institute in Washington - who notes that influential newspaper the Washington Post does not even mention the UN report, jests about Bush's response to the energy crisis, and claims there are no existing technologies that can make an appreciable change to reduce warming - and Roger Harrabin, an Environmental Analyst in the UK, pointing out some of the technologies which do exist, and speaking of the "exquisite angst" which exists uniquely in the UK, with other countries not displaying the same amount of alarm on these matters.
A least common denominator "agreement" is reported by BBCNews 24 ... but is such a least common denominator agreement sufficient?
France24, brief news report about the UN Intergornmental Panel on Climate Change Conference in Paris, 2nd February 2007. http://www.citoyensdelaterre.fr Webcast of the conference, papers and reports of the various workshops etc can be accessed via: http://www.ipcc.ch
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