In the media

Warming warnings get overheated - Björn Lomborg attacks Kyoto2 in The Guardian, Friday 15 August. "The bottom line is that benefits from global warming right now outweigh the costs (the benefit is about 0.25% of global GDP). Global warming will continue to be a net benefit until about 2070, when the damages will begin to outweigh the benefits, reaching a total damage cost equivalent to about 3.5% of GDP by 2300. This is simply not the end of humanity. If anything, global warming is a net benefit now; and even in three centuries, it will not be a challenge to our civilisation ... ".
On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction - there's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy, writes Oliver Tickell in The Guardian, Monday 11 August 2008.
Words of warming - as the world hots up, so does the market for books about climate change. Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, looks at the latest works on the crisis, and sizes up their solutions, from nuclear energy to genetically engineered trees. Published in The Guardian, Saturday 9 August 9. "Were the leaders of either country seeking a guide to determining a negotiating position in Copenhagen, they could do no better than Oliver Tickell's just-published book Kyoto2 (Zed Books), which provides a big-picture approach to the prevention of climatic catastrophe ... Reading Kyoto2 gives one hope that there is a way forward."
Science dictates that we need a 100% reduction in carbon emissions. Here's how to achieve it - writing in Green Futures, Oliver Tickell makes the case for controlling greenhouse gases ‘close to the source' via a groundbreaking new worldwide permits auction. Published on-line, 15 July 2008.
Green Lifeline - by George Monbiot in The Guardian, 1 July 2008. "A radical new idea could save the world's ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?" The K2 proposals, he concludes, "could represent a classic Keynesian solution to economic crisis. The $1, $2 or even $5 trillion the system would cost is used to kick-start a green industrial revolution, a new New Deal not that different from the original one (whose most successful component was Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, which protected forests and farmland(10))."
Climate chaos is inevitable. We can only avert oblivion - Mark Lynas considers the implications of the Stockholm Network's Carbon Scenarios: Blue sky thinking for a green future report in The Guardian. "The third scenario - called "step change" [based on Kyoto2] - is worth a closer look ... A clear long-term framework puts a price on carbon, giving business a strong incentive to shift investment into renewable energy and low-carbon manufacturing. Most importantly, a strong carbon cap means that global emissions peak as early as 2017."
Burning down the house - CNN reviews the Carbon Scenarios: Blue sky thinking for a green future report by the Stockholm Network, in which a Step Change global policy scenario based on Kyoto2 emerges as the most effective regulatory approach to climate change. Published 11 June 2008.
Live Earth's limits - K2 originator Oliver Tickell argues that the global extravaganza evades real solutions to the planet's climate emergency.
Exxon Mobil: A proud oil giant comes to the climate change policy table - Tobias Webb of Ethical Corporation writes of Exxon Mobil's new ideas on climate change - and draws attention to the remarkable similarity between the Kyoto2 proposals and Exxon's backing for "upstream cap and trade" of carbon emissions, where the "cost" of carbon-rich fuel sources would be paid at the point of its extraction, before the carbon was released into the atmosphere - in contrast to the "downstream" approach of Kyoto1 and the EU-ETS.
Can Murdoch save the planet? - by Mark Lynas, The Guardian, Thursday May 17, 2007.
Clarifying Climate Chaos - Resurgence magazine set out the Kyoto2 proposals, March / April 2007. "While there is widespread agreement that we need to do ‘something', and that this something has to go a great deal further than anything the world has managed before, there is as yet little agreement as to just what that something ought to be."
Climate change: the last chance - the urgency of climate change makes a workable model for the post-2012 era essential. Welcome to "Kyoto2", says Oliver Tickell. Published on openDemocracy, 7 February 2007.
Climate change: Time to get serious - viewpoint article in BBC Online's Green Room, 2 February 2007 ... "As the most authoritative report to date on climate change is published, it is time for the world to get serious about curbing greenhouse gas emissions, argues Oliver Tickell. He calls on all nations to embrace a 'Kyoto 2' framework, full of 'bold measures' to prevent 'severe and adverse consequences' ".
Making preservation pay - The Ecologist introduces Kyoto2, January 2007. "The market can solve climate change and tackle world debt if we start to sell emissions right ... ", writes Oliver Tickell.
Kyoto2 commended in Parliament in a speech by former Work & Pensions Secretary Andrew Smith MP (Labour, Oxford East), on 20 November 2006.
Silence from US as clock ticks loud over Kyoto - Kyoto2 is highlighted in The Scotsman's Science and Technology section on 18 November 2006, in this article by Ian Johnston, the newspaper's environment and science correspondent.