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'Cooling a fevered planet' in Z Magazine Economics, policy, and vision for fighting global warming	Gar Lipow	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Z magazine has published an extended article by me on the politics and economics of global warming. It begins: Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capability today to replace greenhouse-gas emitting fossil fuels with efficiency improvements and clean energy -- usua ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate equity, economy, politics (all these topics)

Thinking outside the Oxfam Four short films explore how climate change affects women worldwide	Holly Richmond	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'Is climate change a feminist issue?' NewScientist enviro blogger Catherine Brahic asked last week, then answered, '[F]or me, climate change is not a gender issue. Climate change will not affect women more than men.' She was responding to several short films Oxfam recently produced that profile four women in Brazil, Uganda, the U.K., and Bangladesh. The films explore their experiences educating others in their communities about, and ameliorating, the effects o ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, severe weather (all these topics)

U.K. OK David Miliband talks about democracy and the climate crisis	Kate Sheppard	21 May 2008	Gristmill
I caught an interesting event this morning with U.K. Foreign Minister David Miliband, who is in town to give a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on the 'democratization agenda.' The New American Foundation hosted the morning event with assorted policy wonks, journalists, and political types, and emcee Steve Clemons summarized it best as an attempt to answer the question of whether 'the commitment of the West to liberal values, justice, health ...
Topics: climate, climate equity, Muckraker, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Strangers in disguise Coming to terms with the reality of a world of refugees	Sharon Astyk	20 May 2008	Gristmill
There's definitely a survivalist streak building in the environmental movement. Mainstream newspapers are starting to run stories about survivalism. There are quite a few people who hear that the energy peak or climate change is coming and believe that building up their stocks of ammo and heading for the hills is the way to go. I recognize, even if I do not share, that impulse: It is the impulse to protect your own, the panic you feel when you realize that your socie ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate equity, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

McCain's answers A Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, issued by his campaign	David Roberts	13 May 2008	Gristmill
The following is a Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, released on Monday by the McCain campaign. I'm posting it here because it gets into more detail than any other published material I've seen. ----- Q&A: John McCain's Climate Platform How does cap-and-trade work? Cap-and-trade is a mechanism that would set a limit on greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG) and create permits or rights to emit equal to the limit on GHG emissions. Entities that are ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate equity, John McCain, national security, politics (all these topics)

Carbon trading blasted by indigenous groups Spoilsports don't appreciate all the World Bank has done for them	Gar Lipow	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Some of the world's poorest people seem to think carbon trading will destroy their way of life without actually contributing to solving global warming. The highly respected �Institute for Policy Studies seems to think so, too [PDF]. Very odd of them to take such a position. Because, after all, there are no alternatives to carbon trading.
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, climate equity (all these topics)

Bear poops in woods, some observers say	David Roberts	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Check out the "story highlights" on top of this CNN piece: World's poor are disproportionately affected by climate change, analysts say Low-income groups have comparatively little influence on public policy Burden of climate change rests with wealthy individuals, some observers say Interesting that "some observers" are the only support for that third bullet. What if you added a first premise: "Wealthy individua ...
Topics: climate, climate equity, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The greening of the global south Drawing actual conclusions about the international challenge	Tom Athanasiou	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Here's something novel: a well-informed and honest article from a significant British magazine (Prospect) that looks hard at the core political challenges of global climate stabilization and then draws some conclusions. And it's written by Simon Retallack, who knows his way around both the climate policy debate and the climate movement. Retallack, now head of Climate Change at the UK's Institute for Public Policy Research, did not come blithely to the Greenhou ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, climate equity (all these topics)

Not just an environmental issue Climate change is as much a social priority as an environmental concern	Alan Durning	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Climate change is a universal menace, threatening hardships for everyone. But it's not an egalitarian menace: everyone will not suffer equally. Perversely, those people and nations least to blame for causing it are most vulnerable to its impacts. Climate disruption heaps misfortune on the less fortunate, whether in low-lying Bangladesh, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, or the flood plains around Chehalis, Wash. In the aftermath of climate change, the less you have, the ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate equity, environmental justice (all these topics)

The Ecologist dishes it up Climate refugees and Wi-Fi pollution	Erik Hoffner	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Ecologist is such a great magazine. But I'm sorry that they don't make any of their content freely available online for me to link to here, because the Dec/Jan issue has some really important reading. For one, the world's first (human) climate refugees are about to lose their islands (in the Sunderbans Delta, which straddles the border of India and Bangladesh and is the world's largest mangrove forest, due to increased flows of water from melting glaciers in the Gan ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

The United Nations and climate equity U.N. creating small Adaptation Fund by going carbon neutral	Joseph Romm	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The following essay is a guest post by Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- The IPCC has warned us that developing nations are poised to bear the most dramatic effects of global warming, and so far we (the world) have done practically nothing to counter or prevent that fact. But the U.N. is trying. This week in Bali, the U.N. announced that it will go carbon neutral by offsetting the operations of over 20 agencies, inclu ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate equity, climate (all these topics)

You first! No, you first! China and the U.S. are both obliged to act on climate change, quick-like	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Apparently, based on some recent threads on this site, there's some dispute about the role China plays in the Great International Climate Change Debate. I'm absolutely snowed under right now, but I want to make two quick points: It is indisputable that the U.S., and developed countries generally, bear a vastly larger share of the responsibility for climate change than China, and developing countries generally. This is true whatever perspective you take: physical respo ...
Topics: politics, greenhouse-gas emissions, China, United States, climate equity, climate, international politics, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

The land down underwater What happens to a woman without a country?	Youth Movement	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
By Amanda McKenzie, national coordinator of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. ----- Along with 10 other young Australians, I traveled to Bali to bring the voice of Australia's youth to the U.N. Climate Change Conference. We have been reminding world leaders that our future is threatened. However, my personal concerns about my future were eclipsed when a young woman named Claire from the small island nation of Kiribati stood up in front of 200 internatio ...
Topics: Kiribati, climate equity, climate, climate change impacts, Bali 07 (all these topics)

Simple answers	David Roberts	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Noel Sheppard: Capitalist democracies around the world should be very concerned about the level of socialism being discussed at the United Nations' climate change meeting in Bali. Not only are international hands being extended to collect funds from countries like the United States in order to help poorer nations deal with a problem that might actually be disappearing since global temperatures peaked in 1998, but climate change is also being used as a m ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate equity, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Injustice The 100 most vulnerable nations have contributed least to climate change	David Roberts	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Another short new briefing (PDF) from the International Institute Environment and Development (IIED), this one on the 100 countries most vulnerable to climate change: Human-induced climate change is likely to have the heaviest impact on small low-lying island and coastal states, African nations, Asian mega-deltas and the polar regions. The 100 most vulnerable countries have contributed the least to total global carbon emissions. If the highest ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

Climate change and Pakistan's priorities Climate change mitigation is related to building democracy and decreasing poverty	James Dailey	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
While the climate change "issue" is covered frequently in the press and is implicitly or explicitly part of the U.S. presidential campaign, for developing countries it is just one of many pressing issues. For the man on the street, at least in many of the countries I visit, climate change is important but not urgent. The same could be said of many other issues, of course, but what distinguishes climate change is that it is perceived as "an act o ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate equity, energy, international politics, Pakistan, politics (all these topics)

'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change' New report examines the impact of climate change on national security	Joseph Romm	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
John Podesta and Peter Ogden of the Center for American Progress have written a chapter titled 'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change,' for a report called 'The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.' They describe their work as follows: During the course of the past year, a high-level working group of foreign policy experts, climate scientists, historians, and other specialists has met ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics)

Clinton's climate and energy plan Some reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of Hillary's new proposal	David Roberts	05 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Efficiency and permit auctions and R&D, oh my! Hillary Clinton released her comprehensive energy and climate plan today. It is thoughtful, comprehensive, and though disappointingly conventional in a few areas, inspiringly bold in others. With the release of Clinton's plan, all three Democratic frontrunners for the presidency now have visionary, far-reaching energy plans that would fundamentally reorient the country away from carbon-intensive energy ...
Topics: biofuels, business, carbon trading, climate, climate equity, coal, elections, energy, energy efficiency, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation (all these topics)

If you worry about the impact of climate mitigation on the poor ... CBPP launches a climate equity program	Joseph Romm	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
You'll be glad to know The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has launched a major climate program whose goals are to ensure that: the increased energy prices that are an essential part of climate-change legislation do not drive more households into poverty or make poor households poorer; and climate-change legislation generates sufficient revenue both to protect low-income households and to address other needs related to the fight against global warming, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, energy (all these topics)

Climate equity: Saleemul Huq From citizens of nation states to citizens of the world	David Roberts	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include)) This is a guest essay by Saleemul Huq, head of the climate change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This essay is part of a series on climate equity. ----- Perceptions of climate change -- and what must be done to tackle the problem -- have evolved over time. With concerns about justice and equity now rising to the surface, it is time for a ne ...
Topics: climate, climate equity, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Earth still round; sky, blue	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
IPCC: climate change will hit poor hardest.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, IPCC (all these topics)

Climate equity: Wolfgang Sachs Climate change is about equality among nations and fundamental human rights	David Roberts	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include)) This is a guest essay by Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, author and research director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy. Sachs (together with Timan Santarius et al) has just published a collection of essays called Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice. This is part of a series on climate equity. ----- Tulun and Takuu, two tiny islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are close to being swallowed ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, climate equity (all these topics)

Climate equity: Tom Athanasiou Justice requires fair burden-sharing	David Roberts	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include))This is a guest essay by Tom Athanasiou. Athanasiou is a long-time left green, a former software engineer, a technology critic, and, most recently, a climate justice activist. He is the author of Divided Planet, co-author of Dead Heat, and the director of EcoEquity.This essay is part of a series on climate equity. ----- "Climate equity" names an almost impossible problem with no easy answers. For one thing, it's too late for easy ...
Topics: climate, climate equity, politics (all these topics)

Racking up climate debt The biggest GHG offenders will suffer the least from climate change	Joseph Romm	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The United States is an awfully wealthy nation, as is the United Kingdom. It shows in our lifestyles and it shows in our carbon dioxide emissions -- we are energy rich, not necessarily in production but in consumption. The BBC recently ran an article (opening paragraphs below) highlighting some research from a development organization, and the numbers tell a stunning yet very real story: Bristol International Airport produces the same amount of CO2 from flying e ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Climate equity: Andrew Pendleton On how to divvy up responsibility for climate change	David Roberts	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include))This is a guest essay by Andrew Pendleton. Pendleton leads the climate change policy work at Christian Aid. The essay is part of a series on climate equity. ----- 1. What would climate equity look like? What's the end state we're aiming for? There are many truths in the climate change debate -- almost all of them inconvenient. Perhaps the least convenient is that it is no longer possible to stay below 2�C without cutting the emissions of nations ...
Topics: climate, climate equity, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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