The UK often claims leadership on green policy, yet as Richard Gledhill reflects on the country's annual Budget announcement they couldn't claim this to be the greenest budget ever. For all the talk in Rio last year about green growth, the focus in the corridors of power in Westminster this...
With no deadline to agree anything before 2015, the discussions are interesting but directionless. Richard Gledhill, Jonathan Grant and Dan Hamza Goodacre report from Doha. Much of COP18 is following a familiar rhythm. Opening presentations - three minutes each for delegates to bang their particular drums. Then meetings along the...
The latest World Bank report on climate change, Turn Down the Heat, sets out a stark vision of the future says Richard Gledhill, partner, PwC sustainability and climate change. The World Bank's latest report on climate change is not so much a wake up call, as the coffee and buffet...
Fighting climate change is never going to be easy, no matter what front you are attacking, whether it is on policy, financing, business action or consumer engagement. So on the fifth anniversary of the credit crunch in the UK, has sustainability and climate change been a winner or a loser?...
Richard Gledhill, partner, PwC Sustainability & Climate Change rounds up the progress at Rio, and previews its legacy Instead of binding treaties, the best we can hope for from Rio + 20 is a road map, and a rather unusual one at that, where the destination isn’t really clear, so...
PwC’s sustainability and climate change team give us their round up on the key issues, their implications and next steps from The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. Richard Gledhill, partner, PwC sustainability and climate change So now we have a road map and an ambitious timetable. But our precise destination...
Richard Gledhill of PwC's climate change team, at the UN climate summit in Durban, looks ahead to the (second) final day of negotiations... The mood at the International Convention Centre has changed from eager anticipation to languid pessimism. Delegates have absorbed the texts issued overnight and are now drifting around...
Richard Gledhill comments on the final day of negotiations Could the UN process be heading towards a successful outcome in Durban? Albeit on a rather slow burn. Sources have suggested that there is a real possibility of a 'Durban mandate' that will extend the Kyoto Protocol, commit countries to signing...
Richard Gledhill updates from Durban on the final day of the climate summit. As COP17 moves towards the endgame, rumour and speculation are rife in the corridors of the International Conference Centre in Durban. The mood appears more optimistic than anyone might realistically have hoped for, just a few months...
Richard Gledhill reports from Forestry Day at the Durban Climate Summit. Forest Day 5 opened with a moving film tribute to Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner, who died earlier this year. "Our sister, our mother, our friend, our heroine", she was the first African woman and...
