The Great Beyond: Study sheds light on the demography of climate change

Aging reduces emissions as elderly people contribute less to economic growth. Urbanization has the opposite effect: The migration of people from the countryside to large cities boosts the supply of labour and so fuels economic growth and the demand for energy, the study finds.

Tianjin by numbers | Sam Geall - China Dialogue

Mistrust between the United States and China dominated last week’s climate talks. After another disappointing round of negotiations, Sam Geall considers the figures behind the impasse.
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"The United States pledged a 17% reduction in overall emissions by 2020 but the prospects for the climate-change legislation needed to achieve it are in disarray…It is understandable then, that other countries might lack confidence the US is serious about its targets."

Disappointment lingered in the air of Tianjin's Meijiang centre on Saturday morning, as pervasive as the polluted haze in the north-eastern Chinese city that last week played host to UN climate-change talks, the final session before November's COP16 meeting in Cancún, Mexico.

Wind Power Backbone Sought Off Atlantic Coast - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — Google and a New York financial firm have each agreed to invest heavily in a proposed $5 billion transmission backbone for future offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Seaboard that could ultimately transform the region’s electrical map.

Emily James on climate direct action film Just Do It | Environment | guardian.co.uk

She picks out the Climate Swoop on Ratcliffe on Soar power station a year ago as a particularly memorable day:

1,500 people openly stating a date, openly working together to stop the power station working. People walked right up to the fence in front of the police in open defiance, but without anger. They were saying: 'We've politely asked you to stop burning coal and you haven't listened, so we're just going to stop you.' It was quixotic and a little mad, a really incredible day. It's been good to work with people who can't just sit back and watch climate change happen, but want to stand up do something.