What is the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform?

Removing fossil fuel subsidies is an important part of emission-reduction strategies, as many fossil fuel enterprises will cease to be profitable without subsidy, and could then give way to lower carbon alternatives being taken up.   Governments around the world spend US$400-600 billion a year to keep domestic prices for coal, oil and as products [...]

By |2018-12-12T14:55:44+02:00December 14th, 2018|

Project 90’s Richard Halsey attended an “Emotions” Workshop at COP24

Parallel to the large main events of the COP24 negotiations, there are a wide variety of side events. One I attended was a small discussion group at the Climate Hub around the EMOTIONS that climate change induces... How do those people active in the climate change space maintain hope when it sometimes seems so hopeless? [...]

By |2018-12-12T12:36:21+02:00December 13th, 2018|

Project 90’s Richard Halsey attended the Just Transition Event at COP24

Just Transition Event - Building Local Living Economies 'Just Transition' is a framework for a fair and sustainable shift to a sustainable economy through the implementation of real solutions to climate change that chart a path towards more democratic, ecologically rooted economies.  The workshop that I attended at COP24 on 9 December 2018, aimed to [...]

By |2018-12-12T11:11:27+02:00December 12th, 2018|

Project 90’s Richard Halsey is at COP24 and says: “We cannot grow out of this!”

On the 10th December I attended an event about how social inclusion measures, and investment decisions, assist in a just and sustainable transition.  There was a panel of high profile, influential speakers including Lord Nicholas Stern (who authored the highly cited review on the Economics of Climate Change) and Nick Robins from the London School [...]

By |2018-12-11T14:53:48+02:00December 11th, 2018|

Largest NO2 air-pollution hotspot: Mpumalanga

Greenpeace has just released a report on the extent of the global air pollution crisis, analysed using groundbreaking satellite data from 1 June to 31 August this year mapping the world’s Nitrous Oxide (NO2) air pollution hotspots across six continents in the most detail to date. The world’s largest NO2 air pollution hotspot is Mpumalanga province [...]

By |2021-07-06T12:50:06+02:00October 30th, 2018|
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