Thursday, 17 September 2009
fallacy of common but differentiated responsibility
Why the South can't afford to shift the burden of responsibility solely onto the North for reducing emissions
Vision of hell from Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs gave a tour de force lecture this week about how we are going to hell. Although not correctly summarized on this link by UNCTAD, Sachs urged the need for a carbon tax and "public private partnership" to cut emissions.
Friday, 4 September 2009
Monday, 31 August 2009
Adaptation costs 2-3 times underestimated
UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to adapt to its impacts.
The real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2-3 times greater than estimates made by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), say Professor Martin Parry and colleagues in a new report....
Monday, 24 August 2009
Friday, 14 August 2009
Carbon offsetting dismissed
Will Day, new head of UK Sustainable Development Commission dismisses carbon offsets
He added: "Part of the difficult decision is going to be a rebalancing of what things cost. If we say we must pay the true price of the impact of carbon on the environment. The hard decision is do you price the impact of an aeroplane flying through the air properly, really properly, and not a kind of £1.20 carbon offset. The objective is to reduce the amount of carbon put into the upper atmosphere by planes by pricing it out."
He said: [Flights] will continue but there will be fewer of them, and they will be properly priced. And people will be able to make decisions based on their decision to afford. They're not being told they cannot go on holiday, they are being told this is what it costs."
via The Guardian
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