Jon Snow
Whatever happened to climate change?
Out of the smoke and steam of failure, inspired political and scientific leadership are needed if the cause is to be rebooted. Only then will the media begin to revive interest.
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Jon Snow
Has the climate change summit failed?
A prophetic ad in Copenhagen airport’s terminal 2 – picturing an Obama as old as Nelson Mandela, the caption reads ‘back in 2009 we could have turned the tide on global warming….we didn’t.’ It’s true, the climate change summit failed. On the opening day I talked to the UN chairman of the summit, Yvo de…
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Jon Snow
Big thoughts from Copenhagen – a new world order
If there is a political deal today at the end of the Copenhagen climate change summit, it will herald the beginnings of an entirely new world order, blogs Jon Snow.
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Jon Snow
Team Green – why teenagers could save the world
Jon Snow blogs on the answers to the UK’s climate change problems – teenagers….
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Going green for Christmas no longer makes you Scrooge
Climate change: Going green for Christmas is no longer Scrooge-like, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
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Jon Snow
Copenhagen takes the carbon-emitting biscuit
30,000 people descend on Copenhagen for the meticulously planned climate change summit, blogs Jon Snow. But will it succeed in paving the way for a legally binding treaty on carbon emissions?
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Liquid bomb airport checks: what's it all about?
A genuine “liquid bomb threat” or an attempt to sustain a level of anti-terror hysteria to justify expenditure on the “war on terror”? Jon Snow blogs from the airport for Channel 4 News.
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The non-green processes behind green technologies
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reveals how the growing market for green technologies is polluting parts of China.
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I leave Brazil an optimist
Goldman Sachs was right when, earlier this century, its chief economist came up with the concept of the BRIC economies…these were the big economies likely to make it into the top league in the first part of the 21st century: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Stopping the Great Amazonian Chainsaw Massacre
On a patch of grass outside the Rondonia State headquarters for Brazil’s airborne Amazon police stands a post-modern totem pole. A metal tree, 20 feet high, whose branches are recycled chainsaws on stalks. The whole thing is painted forest green. The chainsaws are real. All of them, confiscated by police officers from illegal loggers. Weapons,…
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Jon Snow
The Amazon Utopia in the heart of a climate change dispute
I’m very conscious I haven’t blogged for a few days. Partly a consequence of the gigantic scale of Brazil – every night is spent flying and manoeuvring to get somewhere deep into the issues on climate change ahead of Copenhagen. I’m sitting in the early morning sun on the far side of the Amazon (ten…
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Finally interviewing Brazilian President Lula da Silva
I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his…
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Jon Snow
Brazil: Pay us to keep our trees up to sustain the world's lungs?
World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must understand that Brazil is a vast CO2-sapping country with a surging carbon-emitting economy, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
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Climate change: things can only get hotter
As a leading UK climate change expert says half the years between 2010 and 2019 will be hotter than 1998 – the hottest year ever, Jon Snow blogs from Brazil.
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Jon Snow
Brazil: a country at an environmental pivot
Jon Snow blogs from Brazil on the start of a special week of reports.