Will UN’s warnings give fresh impetus to the stalled transport-climate agenda?

Climate change has slipped down the transport policy agenda in recent years but renewed warnings about man-made carbon dioxide emissions from the United Nations’ climate change body may help propel it back up again.

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Lawson: IPCC is a “politically motivated pressure group”

Lawson: IPCC is a “politically motivated pressure group”

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week published its new assessment of man’s influence on the earth’s climate. The text of the Summary for policymakers document was agreed at a meeting of scientists, Government and UN officials in Stockholm and draws on the findings contained in the IPCC’s fifth assessment report, which has not yet been released. 

“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal and since the 1950s many of the...

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