Image credit: Leon Brocard via Flickr. By Katie Morrey The centrepiece of Christmas decorations in most households will be the Christmas tree. Every year there are whole conversations about whether […]
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Environmental blog with a focus on climate change.
Opinion: The Paris Agreement: Let’s get to work
Actor turned environmentalist Leonard DeCaprio, with UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon during COP21. Photo credit: United Nations Photo via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen During the years I have been following the climate debate since […]
The world reacts to the Paris Agreement
The Eiffel Tower illuminated in a Le Soleil (The Sun) message. Photo credit: Mark Dixon via Flickr. As the UN agreed on the first-ever global deal on climate change, opinions and statements […]
Opinion: Five things we learned from the Paris COP21 climate talks
COP president Laurent Fabius on the opening day of the summit. Photo credit: ConexcionCOP Agencia de Noticias. By Phil Foster Climate change is an issue that affects us all. And at the […]
World leaders agree on historic deal to combat dangerous climate change
COP president Laurent Fabius flanked by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the left and the French president Francois Hollande on the right declares the Paris Agreement adopted. Photo credit: COP Paris via […]
McKibben: A UN climate deal would not change anything
Bill McKibben. Photo credit: Mark Dixon via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen, in Paris As the world waits to see what a potential UN climate deal will look like, ‘A greener life, a […]
The EU getting the picture right with COP21 infographics
By Katie Morrey Image of Jean-Claude Junker, European Commission President. Credit to European People’s Party, on Flickr. The European Commission’s (EU) statistical office (EUROSTAT) has published a set of infographics in […]
Editorial: We must see Paris as the beginning and not the end
The president of France, Francois Hollande and the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in discussion with former US vice president Al Gore. Photo credit: COP Paris via Flickr. Right now in Paris, […]
Opinion: COP21 – My New Year’s resolution
Climate Countdown poster. By Kaia Rose My New Year’s resolution on January 1st of this year was that I would be in Paris for COP21 in December. I didn’t know what I […]
As the Eiffel Tower switch on the renewables sign, a record amount of people marches for climate action
The London climate march. Photo credit: Avaaz. By Anders Lorenzen Green groups have said that a record amount of people across the world took to the streets to call for action on […]