The UN climate talks just failed – now for the real battle
The annual UN Climate Talks ended on Sunday in Lima, Peru. In case you were wondering, nothing happened....
Blog Archives: 2014
What Might Carbon Markets Post 2020 Look Like?
“We are on the cusp of a very interesting period in the evolution of carbon markets” Post 2020 carbon markets are a very exciting space with much to contr...
Clean Energy in Indonesia: A Massive Opportunity Which Must Be Seized by its New Leadership
A strong sense of déjà vu has been a constant companion on my recent trips to Indonesia: Several proposed clean energy project I was shown by local developers were exactly the sa...
We can win on climate change – but without the UN
The climate community has been in a beehive of activity all summer as government officials, corporate leaders and climate activists prepare to congregate in New York City on 23rd S...
Linking Emissions Trading Schemes Is Not A Viable Flexibility Mechanism
ABSTRACT. Emission Trading Schemes will soon become much less about trading and much more about implementing low carbon technology so that capped entities do not need to buy the al...
Climate change and Lebanon: the elephant in the room
In Lebanon this summer, there has been an array of topics dominating the headlines: ongoing domestic divisions, political soap operas that put the screenwriters of House of Cards t...
Where is the money?
Assaad W. Razzouk on how to finance the transition to a green economy published by UNIDO’s Making It magazine. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Four part series by Assaad W. Razzouk on reviving and reinventing the global climate movement
Part 1: Warm, too warm, and warmer still: The climate movement must face up to its colossal failure There is no disputing its passion. But far, far too little has been achie...
It’s been a big week for climate change – but don’t believe all the hype
by Assaad W. Razzouk The announcements by the Americans and Chinese are actually distinctly unambitious. It’s time for leaders to lead and propagate the facts: Climate action pro...
The EU elections “earthquake” is good for climate action
In a torrent of apparent bad news for many, including for the climate movement, a wave of extremist, nationalist, anti-immigrant and generally anti-science parties won elections to...
A barrage of lawsuits is needed to curb climate change
Calling for investors to divest from polluters is laudable but won’t be enough by Assaad W. Razzouk Institutional investors command a stratospheric £70 trillion of assets and te...
A tale of two Thai landills
by Jay Mariyappan On my last trip to Bangkok a few weeks ago, I opened up local and national newspapers to catch up on the latest in the ongoing Government upheavals and protests t...
How to slow climate change? Target the 90 companies who pollute the most
Very little has been achieved despite scientists sounding the alarm time after time by Assaad W. Razzouk The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Sunday ...
What the climate movement must learn from the fight against AIDS
The battle against Big Pharma was won in a way that offers important lessons for the fight against Big Coal, Big Oil and Big Gas by Assaad W. Razzouk There is a recurring theme in ...
Warm, too warm, and warmer still: The climate movement must face up to its colossal failure
There is no disputing its passion. But far, far too little has been achieved by Assaad W. Razzouk At a sustainability conference earlier this month in New Delhi, a senior represent...
Why Europe Should Go For A Minus 50 Per Cent Climate Target
by Gareth Brydon Phillips The European Commission has set the ball rolling for Ban Ki Moon’s September climate summit with a 2030 target of 40 per cent below 1990, dropping membe...
The European Commission is taking a big gamble with the CDM
By Gareth Brydon Phillips Many of my colleagues in the climate investment space were shocked by the European Commission’s proposal to exclude international emission reductions fr...
Renewable energy targets are bad policy. Here are five reasons to prove it
by Assaad W. Razzouk A green, competitive Europe doesn’t need them and shouldn’t have them In its White Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies released today...
What climate action can we expect in 2014?
by Assaad W. Razzouk Top-down talks have failed, now local forces are gathering strength The year just passed may be remembered as a watershed year in climate policy. While clima...