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Carbon and Copenhagen

By Nathan ⋅ August 19, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

The EU Emissions Trading System has failed to drive real action on carbon emissions. With the Copenhagen climate conference approaching, what can be done to fix the system and improve carbon offsetting as an instrument to tackle climate change?

Of all the ways to save the world…

By Nathan ⋅ March 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When Christian Wolmar wrote an article on Guardian’s Comment Is Free recently appealing for people to give up using toilet paper, reactions included “who’s going to pay for a bidet for every toilet in the land?”, “can’t a guy just have a shit in peace?”, “I already recycle my cans and bottles, I’m buggered if I’m giving up my quilted Andrex”, and “I swear to god, these Greens will not be satisfied until we’re all volunteering, gladly, to throw ourselves into a vat of piranhas, for the good of Gaia”.

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