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  • The world is round after all

    I asked my boss two years ago what were his favourite business books. His list included The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman. Of course I rushed out and bought the book. It has sold by the truck load and was quoted by Mohamed Al-Mady of SABIC during his speech at...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • Get off your backside!

    Click here for some positive thinking - Energy%20Carta%20Conference%20Executive%20Summary_general%20150808.pdf The Asian Energy Youth Summit - organised by the non-profit organisation Energy Carta - is an example of doing something about the climate-change challenge. Speakers at the event which takes...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

  • Do you ever get that sinking feeling?

    I am afraid I do when it comes to climate change and, as a result, don't always switch off lights when I leave rooms, don't always say no to unnecesssary plastic bags when I buy anything and will happily (and this could be the worst damage of all) jet anywhere in the world either for business...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2008

  • The danger of bogus science

    Believing what you want to believe (or pretending to believe in something because it's in your commercial interests) has always been a problem. But the stakes have never been higher than in the case of climate change. To yet again refer to the excellent New Scientist magazine, their editorial from...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2008

  • The CO2 blame game

    In my previous post, I talked about the collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations and how this didn't auger well for a new global agreement for setting greenhouse gas-emission limits and a worldwide price on carbon. The chemicals industry needs clarity. A global price for carbon would enable...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
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