For health anywhere to be sustained, people need clean air, safe water, adequate food, tolerable temperature, stable climate, and high levels of biodiversity. Climate change is envisaged to alter all these requirements of a hea...
Week one of negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference (COP18) in Doha, Qatar have drawn to a close with disappointingly little to show for it. Ministers will arrive tomorrow to continue negotiations with th...
Us against them? It had just hit 2am in Doha and everybody was looking at each other with a wee bit of anger. Everyone was tired, obviously. Mugs of coffee were scattered all over the table. Thus far the negotiations have centr...
As negotiations in Doha continue three things are glaringly obvious – the process is slow, there remains a distinct lack of trust between developing and developed countries and it’s all about the money. Yesterday, day four ...
The nexus… It is really hard to talk about climate change without mentioning conflict. So where is the nexus? It’s pretty easy to see the connection. See, climate change manifests itself through the effects and events that ...
Day 3 of COP18 was punctuated with news of numerous hurdles hampering the progress of the search for solutions to combat climate change. Typical of most negotiations, there were parties who were keen on making it near impossibl...
This week another annual climate summit begins. The media, as usual, do not show much interest in this issue; the issue that is already changing the quality of life of millions. Sometimes, it is incomprehensible why the leaders...