In the media

The Real Deal - OT with George Galloway on Press TV, 3 June 2011. The interview comes at the end of the programme - the last 5 minutes.
Duncan Clark′s Five Books - the famous environmentalist Duncan Clark chooses Kyoto2 as one of his five must-read books on climate change, 2 June 2011.
Cameron′s ′green growth′ policy looks naive today. It will look cynical in 2027 - the UK's promised 50% cut to greenhouse gases means little while rich countries continue to outsource pollution to poorer ones, George Monbiot writes in the Guardian. The answer? Kyoto2, of course ...
Stop the sooty show - Oliver Tickell argues that while progress on CO2 is stymied, the world should take immediate action to reduce emissions of 'black carbon'. BC is the most important agent of global warming after CO2, and comes mainly from forest and land clearance, biomass burning, charcoal production, domestic wood and coal stoves, dirty old diesel and 2-stroke engines, and industry. But unlike CO2, most BC emissions take place in the developing world, with Latin America and Africa leading the emissions field. It's time to drop the old rhetoric of blame, and move into a new era of cooperation in the global interest. Published in the New Statesman, 17 May 2010.
Energy Efficiency, a history - writes about Kyoto2, 13 March 2010.
Kyoto2: for an effective Climate Protocol - Oliver Tickell, author of Kyoto2, assesses whether the Copenhagen climate change summit leaves us with any hope of stemming the threat which climate change poses to our planet. Published in Labour Briefing, February 2010. Provided here a a pdf file, approx 80KB.
Don′t let the carbon market die - writing for the Guardian's Comment is Free, Oliver Tickell makes the case for a uniform global carbon tax, set at a modest level, as a first step towards the introduction of a more complete system to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Published on Monday 25 January 2010.
Kyoto2 and environmental justice - the video of the workshop on Environmental Justice run by Oliver Tickell (author of Kyoto2) during the Great Global Warm Up event, organised by The Climate Camp in collaboration with Zed Books, on Saturday 28 November 2009 at SOAS, London. Video hosted by Zed Books / Youtube.
Kyoto2 on George Galloway′s TV Show - Oliver Tickell is interviewed by George Galloway on his TV show The Real Deal, broadcast by Press TV. Recorded on Friday 14 August. Re-broadcast on Youtube by Zed Books (publishers of Kyoto2).
A new take on Kyoto - Obama faces major challenges on carbon emissions at the G8 - but the best solution is a new, global system of regulation. Published on the Guardian website, Tuesday 7 July 2009.
Oliver Tickell speaking at the People′s G20 Summit, London - 1 April 2009, addressing the G20 'People's Summit' at the University of East London. The event took place outside due to the official closure of the UEL campus in an unsuccessful and profoundly mistaken attempt by the UEL authorities to prevent this entirely peaceful and constructive event from taking place. Hosted by youtube.com, duration approx 10 minutes. Thanks to TheSpartacat for putting up the video - along with the many other excellent talks / performances eg by Tony Benn, Mark Thomas, Lowkey ...
Kyoto2 "most influential book of 2008" - says CPRE, the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Britain needs a Green New Deal - We must reduce unemployment, support manufacturing, boost profits and cut emissions - the solution is a new energy economy. Oliver Tickell writes for the Guardian's Comment is Free website, 25 March 2009.
Green shoots before the recovery - Speaking in Copenhagen, Nicholas Stern explained how we can use the economic downturn to tackle climate change and poverty. Oliver Tickell reports for the guardian.co.uk website, 12 March 2009.
Replace Kyoto protocol with global carbon tax, says Yale economist - the Kyoto Protocol is a reckless gamble that penalises participating countries, Oliver Tickell reports from the Copenhagen climate change congress. Published 12 March 2009 on the guardian.co.uk website.
Carbon: a market we can′t allow to fail - published on guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 January 2009. "With market after market going into tailspin as a result of the credit crunch and global recession, it was almost inevitable that the carbon market would follow suit ... "
Major reductions in carbon emissions are not worth the money - a public debate on 13 January 2009, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, one in the famous series of IQ2 US debates. Bjørn Lomborg, Peter Huber (Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute), and Philip Stott will argue for the motion, against Daniel Kammen, Oliver Tickell, and Adam Werbach. The moderator will be John Donvan, correspondent for ABC News ‘Nightline', and the debate will be broadcast on BBC World News Television (reaching 280 million households globally) and US National Public Radio.
Managing Atmospheric Commons - a longish edited extract from the book Kyoto2 published in The Land magazine, issue 6, Winter 2008/09. Oliver Tickell examines different proposals for managing the atmospheric commons with regard to the threatof climate change, and outlines his own proposal ... (.pdf download, 400KB).
We need to turn carbon into gold - the world needs a global carbon permit scheme, in which polluters must be forced to pay, says Oliver Tickell, author of Kyoto2, writing on the BBC website's Green Room in the week of the UNFCCC conference in Poznan (10 December 2008). There is simply no other way to raise the immense sums needed to finance climate adaptation and mitigation.
A fresh approach to global agreement - Jamie Andrews of the UK Youth delegation assesses the Kyoto2 proposals as the UNFCCC convention in Poznan gets under way, 3 December 2008. "I've recently finished reading a book called Kyoto2. It outlines a way to ‘manage the global greenhouse' by auctioning 100% of greenhouse gas allocations, under a global cap. In the process of reducing emissions, approximately one trillion dollars would be raised annually to facilitate technology transfer, adaptation and other mitigation measures such as the need to protect forests ... There are major questions about the implementation of Kyoto2, but because of the non-linear nature of climate tipping points, delegates to the UN climate change conference must be talking in these terms."
Time to get serious - Oliver Tickell writes in The Ecologist, December 2008 issue. "What can we expect of December's meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol's first ‘commitment period', which ends in 2012."
Kyoto2 on Climate Radio (Special Supplement) - the extended version of Oliver Tickell's interviewed by CR's Phil England for the 300-350 Show. 24 November 2008. Listen, or download MP3.
Kyoto2 on Climate Radio (shorter version) - Oliver Tickell is interviewed by CR's Phil England for the 300-350 Show, 20 November 2008. Listen, or download MP3.
Truth vs Truthiness: Debating Global Warming with those beyond convincing - Adam Siegel previews the Jan 13 IQ2 debate in New York. "Unless there is an effort to, in essence, cut Lomborg / Huber / Stott off at the knees, the battle to win this debate could be half-lost before it begins. Simply by appearing on stage with them, their viewpoints and legitimacy to be heard is validated. Again, they are not part of the search for truth but (for whichever reasons) are perfectly willing (and are actively) peddling disingenuous truthiness. And, that truthiness can be convincing for those not schooled in the issues or perhaps desiring an easy path out of confronting the realities of the challenges before us. Sigh ... A simple question: Can truth win an Oxford-style debate against truthiness? "
Up Next for Debate: Carbon Costs - Andrew Revkin previews the 13 January IQ2 debate in New York on the New York Times's "dot Earth" blog. "I'll try to attend and write on the event, but I would rather see a debate on this motion: 'There is no downside to an ambitious, sustained "energy quest" - from the living room to the board room to the laboratory to the classroom to the Oval Office - aimed at advancing humanity without undermining ecological integrity of the planet.'"
International Court of the Environment launch, London - 28 November 2008Oliver Tickell interviewed for Positive TV by Jeremy at the 'Climate Change and the New World Order' symposium, London.
Will this footprint leave its mark? - writing for The Guardian's website, Duncan Clark ponders the complication of carbon footprinting and reaches the conclusion that "The more I think about it, the more I'm converted to the idea of the Kyoto2 plan, where instead of measuring and limiting emissions at millions of transaction points around the world, you measure and limit them at source: the relatively small number of coal mines, oil refineries, and so on. Surely this is the only way we're really going to make a significant dint in emissions."
Author discusses his vision of alternative to Kyoto accord - writing in the South China Morning Post of 20 October 2008, Dan Kadison interviews Oliver Tickell about his ideas for a post-2012 climate agreement. "The international community should produce a new climate agreement because the Kyoto Protocol is failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions ... "
Kyoto Post 2012 discussed at the Climate Change Business Council - by Catherine Walter, CST Asia, Hong Kong, 15 October 2008. "Amidst the growing uncertainty over the Kyoto Protocol post 2012, a panel of Hong Kong business leaders and thought leaders discussed proposals for the Kyoto Protocol post 2012 and implications of the EU's planned regulations for bringing aviation and shipping into the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). The talks were held earlier this week at a Climate Change Business Forum (CCBF) seminar convened by the Business Environment Council. Oliver Tickell, the keynote speaker and author of Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse, compared global warming to the current financial meltdown in terms of the complexity of both systems, the degree of global interdependence and their unknown outcomes, which are subject to positive feedback processes that can become powerful and virtually unstoppable once the tipping point is crossed."
Tell the climate change deniers this: it′s the economics, stupid! - published in Radical Economics, the newsletter of the New Economics Foundation, autumn 2008, Issue 38.
Renewing our obligations - The government has done so little to deliver on renewable energy that I doubt its good faith. But here is the remedy ... Oliver Tickell argues that intermittent renewables such as wind and wave power, and nuclear electricity, are a marriage made in hell. Published on guardian.co.uk on 27 September 2008.
Save Kyoto - Stopping climate change will take more than clean-energy investment, writes Oliver Tickell in Democracy Journal (Issue #10, Fall 2008) (links directly to the pdf). We should start by reforming Kyoto, not scrapping it. A response to Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus.
Save Kyoto - Stopping climate change will take more than clean-energy investment, writes Oliver Tickell in Democracy Journal (Issue #10, Fall 2008) (links to Journal website). We should start by reforming Kyoto, not scrapping it. A response to Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus.
Cap and trade and carbon taxes - Tim Worstall of the Adam Smith Institute finds common cause with Kyoto2, 14 September 2008. "Much as it pains me to say so, Oliver Tickell has a good piece in The Guardian
So much hot air - writing for guardian.co.uk, Oliver Tickell lambasts the timidity of the Government's measures to insulate the UK's homes. Published Thursday September 11 2008. "Gordon Brown has finally got something right. His initiative to make energy companies invest more in improving the efficiency of their customers' homes reflects all the attributes that once made him such a respected chancellor: prudence; thinking for the long term; and putting an end to the economics of boom and bust ... "
A permit to print money - Oliver Tickell writes for guardian.co.uk on the iniquities of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, Friday September 12 2008. There is a "magical logic" in the way hundreds of billions of pounds' worth of carbon allowances are given away to polluting companies, an employee of an major UK carmaker told the Guardian ...
Nuclear is the real threat to the fuel-poor, not wind energy - writing for guardian.co.uk, Oliver Tickell investigates The Investigation. Published Wednesday September 10 2008. "Wind power could put another half million people into fuel poverty - shock, horror! That was how BBC Radio 4 promoted last week's The Investigation into the future of wind power in the UK. Who can blame them? It got me listening. But do their figures stack up? And what exactly was Sir David King, former government chief scientific advisor, up to when he uttered his dire warning? ..."
Robbing us of renewables - writing for guardian.co.uk, Oliver Tickell explains how the Government is helping itself to £ hundreds of millions raised from our fuel bills to support renewable energy. Published on Saturday September 6 2008. "Strange but true: every year, the Treasury raids the mysterious 'NFFO fund' to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds, on the most tenuous of legal grounds: that the enormous surpluses it generates are a "hereditary revenue of the Crown", along with the income arising from treasure trove and the Crown's prerogative rights over royal fish ... "
Geo-engineers, too, have a vital role in saving the planet - writing in The Guardian, Thursday September 4 2008, Oliver Tickell argues that we need to develop a geo-engineering capability to cool the planet, just in case a runaway greenhouse effect gets under way. "This week the Royal Society published a special edition of its journal, Philosophical Transactions, dedicated to 'geo-engineering' interventions to combat global warming. Its initiative deserves to be welcomed, not rejected out of hand. The time may come when we need to geo-engineer in order to maintain our planet in a livable state ... "
Economics is not a value-free science - Oliver Tickell critiques Lomborgian economics for guardian.co.uk, Friday August 29 2008. "To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To Bjorn Lomborg, every problem is reducible to a cost benefit analysis. At the end of it a number emerges if it is positive, there is a benefit, if it is negative, there is a cost. Faced with a choice of policy options, all we have to do is to carry out a cost benefit analysis of the alternatives ... "
A warming theory that has melted away - writing on guardian.co.uk, Monday August 25 2008, Bjorn Lomborg attacks Kyoto2's main advocate. "Oliver Tickell defends against my critique his visions of 4C leading to a catastrophic future. Two casual observations lend themselves readily. First, Tickell has entirely abstained from defending his claim for human extinction from 4C. Thanks. Second, I was clearly wrong when I said that Tickell's claim for 70-80 metres of sea level rise had maxed out campaigners' scare ... "
Insurance for our planet - writing for guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 21 2008, Oliver Tickell reminds Bjorn Lomborg that the Earth climate system is entirely indifferent to his econometric models. "Bjorn Lomborg accuses me of scare tactics in my article on the catastrophic consequences of a 4C temperature rise. But his confidence that global warming on this scale would have only moderate impacts, knocking global GDP by a mere 3.5% by 2300, is dangerously misplaced. Against Lomborg's outdated econometric models stands something infinitely more dependable and less reassuring - the geological record ... "
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.
Treasury dips into a renewable revenue stream - Oliver Tickell denounces the scandal of the UK's 'renewable energy tax', writing for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 9 August 2006. "Global warming, says Tony Blair, is 'the world's greatest environmental challenge', and renewable energy is one of the main weapons to combat it. So would you expect his government to grab hundreds of millions of pounds from Britain's fledgling renewable electricity industry? Well, last September, the Treasury nabbed £150m raised from consumers' electricity bills to support renewable electricity - effectively creating a new "renewable energy tax".
Bright idea - Oliver Tickell makes the case for an eco-tax on inefficient incandescent light bulbs. Published in The Guardian, Wednesday December 7 2005. "Here is Ben Bradshaw, environment minister, talking recently about the role of environmental levies, or taxes, on products: "Where a good environmental case can be made for a product levy, that should be considered. One example with an obviously clear-cut benefit is incandescent light bulbs. This is something we are thinking about as part of our climate change review ... "
Wave, wind, sun and tide is a powerful mix - can renewable electricity from intermittent sources plug the impending shortfall in the UK's energy supply? Oliver Tickell investigates. Published in The Guardian, Thursday 12 May 2005. "For years, nuclear power has looked expensive, dangerous and dirty. That opinion may be about to change. Britain is facing a power gap of up to 2,000 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity - almost 40% of peak national demand - by 2020 as ageing, unreliable and inefficient nuclear and coal-fired power stations are shut ... "