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David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
Missive from a minion
A breathtakingly thuggish op-ed on the 'special relationship' between the UK and US in the FT today. The author? John Bolton, who these days is a senior...
Fighting the insatiable international bureaucrat…
In 2004, we had Howard Dean, until the 'I have a scream' speech gave the commentariat a chance to say, 'enough, already.' For the 2008 presidential election,...
Brittle power
The Rocky Mountain Institute's Amory Lovins first described the idea of 'brittle power' in a book published twenty-five years (!) ago. Modern energy systems,...
The full, crazy plan
According to Wesley Clark, in the weeks following 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld was hoping to "take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then...
Iraq, Iran… next stop China.
These days, the American right - sinking ever-deeper into a paranoid, unreasoning funk - is mostly obsessed with Islam abroad and immigrants at home. But...
Wet start…
Weighty analysis from the BBC which wonders whether what impact yesterday's so-so weather in London will have on Gordon Brown's premiership. You'll want to...
Flying blind…
There was a paradox at the heart of this week’s conference on climate change. When describing the scale of the problem, speakers gave very strong messages....
New voices…
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been blogging from the Chatham House conference – Climate Change: Politics versus Economics. As the conference made clear,...
Fair shares
In his closing key note speech at Chatham House, Malik Amin Aslam Khan, Pakistan’s environment minister, argued that ‘we are fast running out of time for...
A goal – or not
Chris Dodwell, a senior climate change official at the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, supports a long-term stabilisation goal. A...
Whose rights?
At Chatham House, this morning, DFID’s chief economist, Tony Venables gave a somewhat elusive presentation on what developing countries want from climate...
The global carbon committee…
In the post below, Alex envisages an implausibly high stabilization target (1000ppm say), followed by a dramatic shock (one that, presumably, everyone needs...
Shared vision…
Dr Per Stig Møller, Danish Foreign Minister, was Environment Minister in Rio in 1993. Now he’s looking forward to the big climate showdown in Copenhagen in...
No renewables in my back yard
Paul Golby, CEO of power major, E:ON, is hot under the collar about the lumbering nature of the British planning system. Case-in-point: the London Array, an...
The little we know about leadership
We’re talking about leadership… John Llewellyn, Senior Economic Policy Adviser for Lehman Brothers, makes the case for economic incentives. Exhortation, he...
Cuba claims Miami.
Cleo Paskal switched focus from the problems that climate change will exacerbate to the unfamiliar problems it could cause. What if a small, low lying country...
How bad? Whose burden?
Interesting differences of opinion about how serious a problem we’re facing… Potted Bert Metz: To avoid dangerous climate change (a 2 degree increase in mean...
Petrol on the fire.
Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup – Chief of the UK’s Defence Staff – opens the conference, pitching for a frontline role for the military in the response...
Beyond the conventional wisdom…
So we’re off, with a promise from Robin Niblett, director of Chatham House, that the conference is going to take us beyond the conventional wisdom on the...
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