Climate change sell-out or landmark global warming fightback? Whatever your point of view, Cop28, the 28th such meeting of its kind, was not short on controversy. This year the event was held in Dubai and 84,000 people registered to attend. Critics often point to the carbon footprint of moving this many people from place to […]
Presidents and Real Leadership [Updated]
Lech Walesa, who is speaking at IESE business school, like Barak Obama shows what the Kennedy School’s Dean Williams calls real leadership …
The European Parliament represents only those who turn up
Analysis of the European Parliamentary elections miss the point as the real story is the ability of the far right and new left to mobilize their voters …
Miami Heat
After not visiting Miami for a number of years the city causes a remarkable impression and has become the financial center of Latin America and may become its political center if it survives climate change …
Global Change Agents
Dean Williams’ course at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is a strong reminder to get engaged in public life and work to make the world a better place
Obama and Climate Change
This week I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a course at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and it is wonderful to be back in a place where little seems to have changed since lived here with my family 20 years ago. Harvard Square is still full of students of all shapes and sizes and while Mimi’s […]
