Cancun is fast approaching and with the recently completed UN climate talks in Tianjin, China and the United States appear stuck in the same deadlock that mired Copenhagen and which many have blamed for its ultimate failure to achieve anything substantial. What is it that China is seeking from these new negotiations? In common with [...]

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne, led the announcement of the Comprehensive Spending Review last week, introducing what’s expected to be one of the most challenging economic periods in the history of the UK. Whilst spending cuts were inevitable from any Government, Ed Milliband, Leader of the Opposition, claims that the Coalition’s Government’s ‘slash [...]