While it seems there is good and bad news coming out of the COP 25 in Madrid, one does get the feeling that the world is moving to slowly on the issue of de-carbonization. To give some context to the entire issue, I have picked these four charts out of the work done by the Global Carbon Project that I think summarizes the situation.
The TPP and the Environment
Environmentalists are up and arms about the Trans-Pacific Partnership although on the surface it seems to be going in the right direction and we have to wait until the full text is made public.
Repsol and the Canary Islands – Let the Islands Decide
The central government of Spain has given Repsol authorization to drill exploratory wells off the coast of the Canary Islands demonstrating their attitudes about risk …
Food and the environment
A recent column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, convinced me to turn my attention away from Crimea and focus on a completely different issue which is how our dietary choices affect our natural environment. Kristof cites a new book by Christopher Leonard about Tyson Foods and the concentration of the American meat […]