Cho and I walk with our clothes soaked to our bodies with sweat. We break for ten minutes each hour and habitually wring out out tops – that’s as dry as they get all day. They then get used as rags to wipe the jungle grit and grime from the back of our necks and [...]

This article, from the BBC describes how cutting emissions for climate change policies would bring benefits to global health. For any climate sceptics out there, it gives alternate reasons for following a low carbon path.

Its bound to be on the telly over the next few days in the UK and the title is quite relevant to Cho’s and my current predicament. The Amazon is not a normal river like the Thames – it is the focal point of a huge sheet of water that surges through the forest when [...]

So, what did the Copenhagen talks achieve? At the end of the two week climate change conference, nations put together the ’Copenhagen Accord’.  This paper includes a ‘collective commitment’ by developed countries to provide financing to developing countries, with an immediate $30 billion for implementation in the next three years, and a goal to mobilise $100 billion a year globally by 2020.  [...]

Ten years ago yesterday I was sleeping in the spare room at my Mum and Dad’s house in the small rural village of Mowsley in Leicestershire. I had recently graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and, as a young second lieutenant without a place of my own, was staying with my parents whilst on [...]

Despite the above speech by HRH The Prince of Wales on Tuesday – with three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. Tomorrow, the world’s leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop [...]

Today at 1249pm I sat down on my pack and said to Cho I was bored. Not exhausted, shattered or fatigued – just bored. I could see by the look on Cho’s face that he understood me completely. We are only three days into a nine-day leg and we have rested well. Our current hurdle [...]

Today is day four of the two week Climate Summit in Copenhagen. A ceremony on 7th December opened the conference, and this video was shown: So negotiations are now underway between world leaders for international agreement, and the world is watching. The main points to be discussed are emissions and financing. Many nations have already [...]

Whilst walking, Cho and I dream about arriving in the next jungle town. Eating well and sipping beers whilst chatting to friendly Brazilians. Somehow the reality is always less glamorous. I have spent literally days on, or waiting for, the telephone whilst hanging half out of the hostel window attempting to get the Internet link [...]

…to “the most important gathering since the Second World War.” A quote from Lord Stern, one of the world’s leading experts on Climate Change, and writer of the Stern Review 2006, a document which really brought the issue of climate change to the forefront.  He is referring the U.N. Conference on Climate Change taking place next weeek in Copenhagen.  In this article [...]