What an odd title, you might think, given that NZ was the first country to have universal suffrage. However, you might like to read the admirable and utterly irrefragable Bronwen Hayward on the latest efforts in Christchurch to rebuild a threatened democracy in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes. As if the quake wasn't enough ...
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...
Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...