All posts in Climate Change

Climate Change Meeting at UN
September 24, 2007, 1 Comment

UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to act quickly to deal with climate change. He told a gathe ...

Ozone deal hailed as blow against climate change
September 22, 2007, Comments Off on Ozone deal hailed as blow against climate change

David Ljunggren, Reuters OTTAWA, Sept 22 (Reuters) – A deal by 191 nations to eliminate ozone-depleting substances ...

The Crisis Under The Ice: Jeremy Rifkin
August 23, 2007, 1 Comment

Global Warming Enabled Russia’s Arctic Land Grab, and Now It Could Get Worse Any lingering doubts about how ill-prepar ...

Tension in the high Arctic by Cleo Paskal
August 16, 2007, 1 Comment

15 August 2007 Canada’s Northwest Passage: Tension in the high Arctic A classic example of the “if it’s not ex ...

Wednesday Night #1328 – with Hon. David Kilgour
August 15, 2007, 7 Comments

15 August 2007 This Wednesday we will have David Kilgour, long-serving (May 1979 until January 2006) Member of Parliamen ...

Wednesday Night #1324 – Anne Sophie, Cleo & Kimon
July 18, 2007, 7 Comments

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washin ...

Climate change, security & foreign policy
June 25, 2007, 3 Comments

June 25, 2007 Just a quick note from here in London. My Chatham House Briefing Paper “How climate change is pushin ...

Wednesday Night #1318
June 6, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1318

 Preface There was a welcome influx of new (and much younger) faces, including three from Europe – lending fresh ...

Greener by miles – locally-sourced food debate: Comment
June 3, 2007, Comments Off on Greener by miles – locally-sourced food debate: Comment

A contribution from Douglas Lightfoot to the on-going debate on climate change 03/06/2007 Conscientious consumers are be ...

Wednesday Night #1316
May 23, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1316

23 May 2007 A very interesting evening last week, which was a continuation of the previous week’s discussion of nu ...

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