by Michael Rawlinson QC | Nov 26, 2020 | Blog
The Treasury has announced that large organisations and those financial organisations which have holdings within them are likely to be required to report the risks which they directly or (via their holdings) indirectly face at the hands of climate change and what they...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog
CARBON OFFSETTING IN AVIATION: THE SIZE OF THE TASK Introduction I have recently blogged on the ability and, indeed, the necessity of the aviation industry to engage in carbon offsetting in order to try to reach carbon nett neutrality by 2050. I will assume that...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog
Introduction We should draw a clear distinction at the outset between two separate, albeit related, concepts. As I set out in my last series of blogs, one method of ensuring that a nation’s carbon emissions reduce over time is by constructing a ‘cap and...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jun 15, 2020 | Blog
Let us now return to our main narrative. Kyoto set emissions targets until 2020 but long before that it became clear that even the systems set up under Kyoto would be insufficient to bring about the required level of carbon change. Zahar analyses (convincingly to my...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jun 15, 2020 | Blog
There were several problems with Rio. First, it set no binding targets; second, it left the provision of funding ad hoc; third it did not really consider how private capital should be utilised for carbon mitigation and fourth, it left the majority of the world (i.e....
