It's midnight; I'm bobbing around in a kayak on Sydney Harbour, with 1.5 million people crowded on to the foreshores around me, watching the world's biggest New Year's fireworks spell out "welcome" in 16 languages.
Bye bye 2011, with its news that global emissions rose 6% in 2010 (the highest in recorded history), its insipid Durban outcome and just too many NEW coal-fired power stations built around the world (can you believe, given what every national science academy in the world says, that we're still building new ones!).
Hello 2012. Here's hoping for renewable energy to become cheaper than coal and oil - everywhere - and for governments to finally figure out that society-wide Green Growth policies are the best hope for both economic recovery (just listen to the OECD) and for avoiding climate catastrophe (that's the IEA saying that). And for clean energy deal flow that successfully attracts billions in institutional investment.
Best wishes,
