100 world leaders reportedly attended last Tuesday’s session at the United Nations Climate Summit and were joined by Leonardo DiCaprio who has been named the UN’s Ambassador for Peace for the next year. Since 1998 Dicaprio, like his character Jay Gatsby, has earned respectability and praise by spending part of his fortune estimated at $220 million. While […]
Australia & Climate Change
Energy policy and the environment are not only decisive issues in Australian politics but the history of the recently repealed emissions trading scheme or “carbon tax” shows how such issues can divide politicians, parties and even people.
Long Term Thinking
Some business leaders are pushing to restore long term thinking …
Obama will now focus on Climate Change
With two and a half years in office and no possibility of re-election Barak Obama is turning to make the fight against climate change a key piece of his legacy …
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 […]
