Anthropocene Definitions – Power, Responsibility, or Something else? Over the last year, the concept of the Anthropocene has received a tremendous amount of attention from sustainability, resilience and Earth system…
Does anybody else find the ongoing conversation about the temperature goal curious? The growing number of supporters of a 1.5°C long-term temperature goal is bizarre. Simply stated, 1.5°C is impossible…
Recently, much of my research has focused on the Anthropocene. I’m wondering, and have been investigating, what people mean when they talk about the Anthropocene, and what they imagine when…
– How the Polish COP Presidency and the Fossil Fuel Industries inadvertently helped out the Climate Action Movement It took a while to find some inspiration for a blog from…
– Helping the Mind Deal with Climate Change Futures Brigitte Pawliw-Fry & Manjana Milkoreit Climate change is a problem that reaches far into the future. Although one could debate to…
Much has been written about the latest round of global climate negotiations at COP 18 in Doha. Much of the blogosphere has expressed its disappointment with the Doha Gateway, complained…
COP17 is over, delegates are back home and analysts are starting to publish their thoughts on the Durban outcome. So what is left for me is to wrap up my…
It is Saturday, almost lunch time, and it looks like the negotiations might keep going for a while. Here is a short run-down of the events since yesterday. When I…
It’s Friday morning, the last day of COP17 (let’s ignore voices suggesting that this event could last till Monday). Ministers and Heads of State have disappeared in the President’s Indaba…
As a student of Global Governance I was intrigued to observe the Occupy COP17 protest about an hour ago here in the ICC in Durban. I could start talking about…
Today I am not writing about the uncertain future of the paltry global climate regime, but about the mysterious business of doing fieldwork at a mega-conference like COP17. It is…