After Copenhagen, we need to change the climate argument

In Copenhagen’s glitzy airport, there’s a brightly lit billboard bearing a picture of an ageing President Obama. ‘I’m sorry,’ says the legend. ‘We could have stopped climate change. We didn’t.’ The advert, paid for by the international ‘tcktcktck’ climate campaigntest

A “Tobin” tax is workable

The Times on Friday branded as “unworkable” the Tobin tax being considered by the Treasury. But development expert Rodney Schmidt has demonstrated its practicality

The atmosphere has changed in Copenhagen

As the talks started at the beginning of this week I noticed the atmosphere had changed. Up until then I had felt the mood was too gloomy: then it felt too optimistic, with people assuming because some of the keytest