Today I witnessed what could prove to be an historic moment.  At the negotiations in Bangkok this afternoon, Norway announced that it's the first country outside of the European Union to adopt a target of 40% below 1990 levels by...

New Zealand has once more been awarded Fossil of the Day at the UN climate talks in Bangkok (honestly, blogging on this would be getting boring if it wasn’t so depressing).  Third place this time.  The reason why New Zealand got a...

A really bizarre thing happened today at the New Zealand Embassy in Berlin.  A group of people arrived to hand over New Zealand’s Fossil of the Day award, but that’s not the bizarre thing.  The strange thing about the event was the...

After the first day of negotiations here in Bangkok it’s becoming clear that Asia is where the climate action’s at.  Japan has increased its target to 25%, which resulted in public praise from other delegations, in contrast to the...

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most vulnerable and least prepared regions of the world to face climate change.  So it’s very fitting that negotiators from around the world are gathering in Bangkok, Thailand, for the next two...

New Zealand got Fossil of the Day at the UN climate talks in Bangkok today after revealing that the Government’s 10% to 20% target is actually a nothing to 20% target. The Government’s Climate Change ambassador Adrian Macey admitted...