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Climate Answers tries to be optimistic and constructive. We are also supportive of the EU as a forum that is essential to control climate change. However, it is very hard to be either optimistic or pro-EU when one reads that the amount that the EU has offered to developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change is just 0.05% of the money given to banks last year.

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, today gave his pre-budget report to parliament. This included some good climate measures.

No form of electricity generation is entirely free of carbon emissions. So just how carbon free are the main types?

What is Nigeria’s contribution to the global annual greenhouse gas emissions?

Edy

The Copenhagen Climate Summit starts today. Prospects are looking better than they were a few weeks ago and the fact that President Obama has decided to attend the final negotiating session, rather than just for a token visit at the start, is excellent.

Yesterday I went to Brussels for a seminar on CCS with Ruud Lubbers, who used to be prime minister of the Netherlands and is now running the Rotterdam Climate Initiative.

So climate change has claimed a political victim in Australia and you don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

It will be cheaper to control climate change than not to control it, as the Stern Review memorably said. However, that does not mean that it will be cheap.