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Climate Policy Negotiation: When Mucky Meets Murky

Submitted by editor on Thu, 2010-09-02 12:09

Here’s a vex question for you: which is the murkier business – heavy industry, or climate policy negotiation around carbon trading?

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Forests, Financials And The Future

Submitted by editor on Wed, 2010-08-25 11:04

Gloom or boom? There’s no shortage of media reports of this fragile world of ours teetering on the brink of collapse. And a story being a story, there are plenty of positive opinions out there too.

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Gobfests And Gradualism

Submitted by editor on Tue, 2010-08-17 12:47

When a commercial management team runs out of ideas, it typically calls in expensive management consultants. And when the consultants run out of ideas, they have been known to advise, in their own inimitable management-speak, that the company be run along the lines of incremental gradualism.

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Chilling News On Hot Topic

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2010-08-05 00:14

If it weren't so warming, the news would be chilling. The United States, home of some of the archest climate sceptics, is sitting up and paying attention to a report from its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

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Reasons To Be Cheerful

Submitted by editor on Wed, 2010-07-28 12:25

It’s difficult to take the existentialist approach to climate change and deforestation – but, frankly, there’s little choice.

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Logging On? Way To Go...

Submitted by editor on Tue, 2010-07-20 11:04

So what’s all the fuss about? According to a recent report from a well respected research group and think tank, Chatham House, illegal logging of rain forests has fallen sharply.

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Hot Air's Cause And Effect

Submitted by editor on Tue, 2010-07-13 13:16

Here’s a conundrum for you. How come climate change debate generates so much hot air?

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ERRT Is A Reason To Be Cheerful

Submitted by editor on Thu, 2010-07-08 16:19

Here at Citola, we’ve often cited our belief that carbon offsets and forestry provide a welcome instance of synergy between business sense and best (or, at least, good) practice in sustainability.

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Dancing The Cancun

Submitted by editor on Sat, 2010-07-03 18:54

So what are the prospects for Cancun, and the UN climate-change conference in December? Here are the few certainties we can ascertain from the evidence available to us here at Citola.

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Forestry Land Use - A Chorus of Rusty Cogs

Submitted by editor on Sat, 2010-06-19 12:11

There aren’t many beards in evidence at Citola’s offices, but we hope you’ll know what we mean when we say we’ve been doing a lot of beard-stroking when it comes to the issue of the UN climate change talks.

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