As Mr. Marthinus Van Schalwyk (Minister of Environment, South Africa) said, we are three months after Bali, and twenty months before the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 (It is thought that if a post-2012 agreement is to come into force on time, negotiations need to be completed in Copenhagen, so that national and international [...]

At 8.30am, on a Sunday morning, the third and final session of this fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue began under the robust co-chairmanship of Mr. Marthinus Van Schalwyk (Minister of Environment, South Africa) and Mr. Ian Shugart (Associate Deputy Minister of Environment, Canada).
The Keynote address from Dr Ichiro Kamoshita (Minister of the [...]

The session focused on how to encourage entrepreneurs to develop a global low-carbon economy. Mr. Nobo Tanaka (Executive Director, International Energy Agency) explained that renewables and energy efficiency technologies must be part of any solution, he showed that these technologies have the potential to reduce current emission pathways by 21% and 54% respectively. Mr. Tanaka, [...]

Energy Minister, Malcom Wicks, at the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) made an announcement at the first session of the 4th Ministerial Meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue, that the Government of the United Kingdom through the Department of Environment, Food abd Rural Affairs (DEFRA) will make a three-year commitment to REEEP (Renewable [...]

I am in Chiba, Japan, for the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development. The two-day meeting begins tomorrow, with a keynote presentation by Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This meeting will feed into Japan’s G8 Summit in Hokkaido, on 7-9 July.
The [...]