... but I think I have just discovered the greatest quotation of all time. It is 1987. Mike Tyson is harrassing a little-known model called Naomi Campbell at...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
That globe in Copenhagen you keep hearing about
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Gaze not too long into the abyss
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA5VsSF6FZA[/youtube]
Scandinavian efficiency goes AWOL
ChinaDialogue's Isabel Hilton on how to make a critical situation desperate: Step 1: Take the most ambitious and important world summit ever, invite the...
Is this the least professional security detail, like, ever?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78hZ62_uKE[/youtube]
Climate Change and Hunger: Responding to the challenge
World Food Programme report on the state of the science on what climate change means for hunger, plus policy recommendations. Authored by IPCC Impacts Chair Martin Parry with Mark Rosengrant, Tim Wheeler and Global Dashboard’s Alex Evans (December 2009)
“Just then, the state of British domestic political debate looked a bit shameful”
Last time we caught up with Charlemagne over at the EU heads' meeting in Brussels, he and his fellow hacks were sniggering about some unfortunate new...
Us Now
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlqU1o3NmSw[/youtube] This is the first bit of Us Now, an hour-long film by Ivo Gormley - screened on Channel 4 but...
How climate change will affect hunger: new report on the state of the science
The World Food Programme has just published a new report (pdf; also Reuters coverage here) on how climate change will affect hunger, which both summarises the...
Copenhagen “in disarray”? Don’t believe the hype
The Guardian's leading with a rather breathless piece this evening on how the Copenhagen talks are ... in disarray today after developing countries reacted...
Why are environmental NGOs pushing for a later peak emissions year than the IPCC?
As we've been arguing here since March, the year that policymakers select as the deadline for global emissions must peak is the key short-term variable to...
Welcome to Gropenhagen
Newsflash just in from Der Spiegel: Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers...
Space-based solar plant gets go-ahead
From the NYT's Green Inc blog: California regulators on Thursday went where no regulators have gone before — approving a utility contract for the nation’s...
A rough guide to Copenfailure (part 2)
Yesterday I published a post looking at how the Copenhagen climate summit might fail. Today: why it might fail. David and I have identified seven main...
A rough guide to Copenfailure (part 1)
With three days to go until Copenhagen begins, there's increasing awareness that the likeliest scenario is that Copenhagen will fail to produce a robust deal...
The FT trashes the CDM, endorses per capita convergence
The FT's leader on Copenhagen this morning was exactly right. First it trashed the CDM (see here for CDM-trashing here on Global Dashboard over the last two...
Hey! Look! Climate policy that would actually work!
So imagine if you will that you're a small energy company. You're thinking about building a wind farm, say, off the coast of Yorkshire. Problem is, you're...
Europeans: here to save the world from MS Powerpoint
This little gem - spotted amid Iraq documents leaked to the Telegraph and apparently quoting one Colonel J.K. Tanner, chief of staff to the British general...
Blackwater’s secret war in Pakistan
We've covered Blackwater a few times in the past here on GD, and when the founder of the firm was implicated in murder in two sworn depositions back in...
Public diplomacy: Boris Johnson shows us how
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