Mark Twain famously said that “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds”. In the same way the outcomes of COP-15, while messy and minimal, are better and more hopeful than the reporting to date would suggest – and certainly do not justify patently puerile claims of ‘suicide pact’ and ‘crime scene’ from...
At some point in large UN conferences like this, it becomes a business of expectation management to recalibrate the benchmark for success. On Friday there was every sign that this was a conference at risk.
When two major plenary-style briefings for civil society are cancelled without explanation ...
I was planning a second colour piece but events here and abroad got in the way. Of all the issues that could foil an agreement here, maybe none is the bigger than the relationship between the rich world and the G-77 group of developing nations. As an Australian who has now lived and worked in London...
