by Michael Rawlinson QC | Oct 29, 2020 | News
CARBON OFFSETTING IN AVIATION: THE SIZE OF THE TASK Introduction I have recently blogged on the ability and, indeed, the necessity of the aviation industry to engage in carbon offsetting in order to try to reach carbon nett neutrality by 2050. I will assume that...
by Atu Josephine Oyinteko | Aug 3, 2020 | News
Name: Atu Josephine Oyinteko Age: 25 years Place of Birth: Kyebi/ Eastern Region. Education: SHS – completed 2013 Marital Status: Single. MONDAY 20TH JULY 2020 Performed the daily vehicle checks by checking engine and hydraulic oil levels, water, tyres, fluids, belt...
by Michael Amponsah | Aug 3, 2020 | News
Hi, my name is Michael Amponsah. I am 30 years old, I come from Mallam, a district of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. I now live in Abofour, a small town on the edge of the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve. I went to school in Accra at the New Life School. That all...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jul 13, 2020 | News
Introduction We should draw a clear distinction at the outset between two separate, albeit related, concepts. As I set out in my last series of blogs, one method of ensuring that a nation’s carbon emissions reduce over time is by constructing a ‘cap and...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jun 15, 2020 | News
Let us now return to our main narrative. Kyoto set emissions targets until 2020 but long before that it became clear that even the systems set up under Kyoto would be insufficient to bring about the required level of carbon change. Zahar analyses (convincingly to my...
by Michael Rawlinson QC | Jun 15, 2020 | News
There were several problems with Rio. First, it set no binding targets; second, it left the provision of funding ad hoc; third it did not really consider how private capital should be utilised for carbon mitigation and fourth, it left the majority of the world (i.e....