Author: Frank Schnittger

It’s a NO to Copenhagen

All prospects of a substantial, legally binding agreement in Copenhagen have now been buried at the Asia-Pacific Summit with Obama and the other leaders accepting that no agreement is possible in the remaining time available....

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Carbon and tax neutrality

Cross-posted from climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu The purpose of carbon taxes is to shift consumption from carbon based to sustainable sources, not to act as another revenue source for Governments seeking to fund bank bail-outs...

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The State of the World

OK – a slightly ambitious title for a short diary – I will concede.  But I want to talk about a few inter-related factors which I think are emblematic and symbolic of the state of world politics today.  ...

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