by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jul 13, 2020 | News
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 | News
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 | News
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....
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jun 15, 2020 | News
In this series of three linked initial blogs, I want to show you that however large the global figures for the production of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) generally and CO2 particularly may seem, climate change is a problem which can be broken down into manageable chunks,...
by TTF | Jun 15, 2020 | News
Mere Plantations, a UK company, established in January 2007 to reforest 10,000 Acres of UNFCCC classified degraded forest land within the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve in Ghana, are the latest member to the UK Timber Trade Federation. Mere are one of largest...
by Thomas Agyekum | Jun 15, 2020 | News
My week as a Plantation Manager. Thomas Agyekum, everyone calls me Agyekum. I am 53 years old and have been a professional forester all my adult life. The forest is where I feel most at home. I have 4 children who all live with me in Abofour. Originally, I come...
