David Steven

David Steven is a writer and policy consultant whose work includes a pamphlet on the future of unionism in Northern Ireland (published by Slugger OToole) and reports for Daily Summit, at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

Scientists running scared

Today, a group of the 'world's top climate scientists' came to Bali to call for deep emission cuts. 'Time is running out,' one of

By David Steven

/ 6 Dec 2007

Saying no to markets

Over the past year or so, a number of economists and other market-friendly commentators have fallen out of love with market solutions to climate change. Most of them would prefer

By David Steven

/ 6 Dec 2007

News from elsewhere

US domestic politics is an ever-present influence here in Bali. Every delegation - whether or not it approves of current Bush administration climate policy - is inevitably looking towards 2009

By David Steven

/ 6 Dec 2007

Breaking: Date set for next 'major emitters' meeting

At his press briefing today, I asked Harlan Watson, lead US negotiator, whether he could confirm that the US had recently sent round invites to a second meeting on climate

By David Steven

/ 6 Dec 2007

Who runs what?

A year ago, the UN's climate change conference in Nairobi was described by openDemocracy as ‘rhetoric-heavy but action-light'. But developing countries were much happier with the outcome.

By David Steven

/ 6 Dec 2007

What's love got to do with it

As we reported on Sunday, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention, has been urging countries to focus on process not substance. He wants countries to

By David Steven

/ 5 Dec 2007

Dumping on Kyoto

‘Kyoto's failure haunts new U.N. talks.' ‘Time to ditch Kyoto.' These recent headlines have found a ready audience among those who have never liked the

By David Steven

/ 4 Dec 2007

Join our 'special' group

It took up only a few innocuous words in the unofficial record of yesterday's proceedings. Delegates here in Bali had agreed to ‘prepare options for consideration by the

By David Steven

/ 4 Dec 2007

China in the hot seat

George W Bush finds China's climate change policy hard to swallow, reports David Steven in our new Global Deal blog from Bali.

By David Steven

/ 4 Dec 2007

Kicking Canada

Canada was given a good kicking at today’s Climate Action Network press conference, spicing things up after the desperately dull fare the NGOs served up yesterday. They accused Canada

By David Steven

/ 4 Dec 2007

Europe's Demands

So what about the Europeans? Their position is pretty clear - and starkly opposed to the UNFCCC's desire to avoid talking turkey until next year. Europe wants dramatic

By David Steven

/ 3 Dec 2007

Turning Japanese

At their press conference, the Japanese delegation were complaining that some countries hadn’t take a fair share of the burden under the Kyoto Protocol. I asked the obvious question

By David Steven

/ 3 Dec 2007