25 posts categorised "Richard Gledhill"

December 31, 2013 2014: Welcome to the year of ambition? As we close 2013, a global deal on climate change is still the answer, says Richard Gledhill. We may never know if climate change was...

October 25, 2013 Energy prices – PwC look at the options In the UK, recent energy price rise announcements have fuelled an almost daily debate amongst politicians and media, with rumours of green levies been potentially...

September 26, 2013 IPCC AR5: Our carbon addiction - time to break the habit? In advance of the release of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report on climate science, we've looked back over our analysis on the progress of the...

July 02, 2013 UK's National Adaptation Plan delivers a postcard from the future: will the boardroom receive it? This week the UK got a postcard from the future in the shape of the National Adaptation Programme Report. It’s not a destination businesses have...

June 21, 2013 Climate change: Six things to worry about, besides the weather With climate change often measured in terms of tens, and hundreds of years, its been a pretty frantic few weeks for our understanding of the...

March 21, 2013 Going for growth - green or any colour 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...

November 30, 2012 Show me the road from Doha 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....

November 20, 2012 Who'd want to bank on 4C? 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...

August 09, 2012 What the credit crunch did for climate change 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...

June 22, 2012 Will Rio+20 deliver the" future we want?" Richard Gledhill, partner, PwC Sustainability & Climate Change rounds up the progress at Rio, and previews its legacy Instead of binding treaties, the best we...

December 11, 2011 Durban: All aboard.....but to what destination? 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...

December 10, 2011 Durban D Day? 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...

December 09, 2011 Durban - a new mandate? 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...

December 09, 2011 Moving towards the endgame 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...

December 04, 2011 Forestry day update 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...

December 01, 2011 Green Climate Fund This year's panto at the Durban Playhouse is Cinderella, with an African heroine and two very ugly sisters. It isn't clear yet which parties will...

November 24, 2011 Did Hugo Chavez have a point? There's no better place to start a low carbon revolution than in the shower, says Richard Gledhill, head of climate change at PwC In the...

June 06, 2011 UN negotiations in Bonn Richard Gledhill, partner, PwC Sustainability and Climate Change previews the UN's negotiations in Bonn. Almost half way along the road to the UN climate conference...

January 28, 2011 World Economic Forum at Davos The theme for this year's meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is "Shared norms for the new reality". We had a taste...

December 10, 2010 Update on the final day's negotiations Observers who have lasted the course are converging on the Moon Palace, anxious for news of progress, but reconciled to a long day of rumours...

December 09, 2010 Compromise or conundrum? Cancun still challenges At the Moon Palace, most of the meetings are now taking place behind close doors, as ministers work with negotiators to broker that elusive compromise,...

December 08, 2010 Compromise is the watchword in Cancun Large numbers of environment ministers, and just a few heads of state, arrived in Cancun over the weekend. To welcome these VIP guests, the Mexican...

December 07, 2010 Richard Gledhill gives his first impressions of Cancun The T-shirt worn by many of the younger delegates sums up the challenge for policymakers in Cancun. "You have been negotiating all my life. You...

November 08, 2010 The Cancun conundrum A much-trailed report from the UN Sectary General's High-level Advisory Group on Climate Finance (AGF), examines how the US$100 billion a year by 2020 promised...

October 19, 2010 Despatches from Amazonia Richard Gledhill, of PwC’s climate change and carbon markets network, describes a recent day at the ‘office’ All along the Rio Negro, broad expanses of...

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