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

From is to ought Donald Brown on the ethical dimensions of climate change	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Here's a great 10-minute video on the ethical dimensions of climate change, by Donald Brown of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Transcript here. (Thanks Calvin!)
Topics: climate, climate equity (all these topics)

Climate equity: Danielle Deane A foundation officer on the need for coordination and funding for equity efforts	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include))This is a guest essay by Danielle Deane. Deane is a Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation, where she runs the New Constituencies for the Environment initiative. She is also a 2007-2008 Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) Connecting Leaders Fellow. 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? Climate change is going to hurt the poor the most, ...
Topics: climate, climate equity (all these topics)

Climate equity: A conversation Introducing an ongoing series on the most undercovered aspect of climate change	David Roberts	15 Oct 2007	Gristmill
((equity_include))One aspect of climate change is overlooked by politicians, commentators, and big NGOs alike: equity. The suffering that climate change will bring is going to be visited primarily on the globe's most vulnerable populations -- the very people who have done the least to cause the problem. Any response to climate change that hopes to gain international legitimacy must take equity as a central organizing principle. As I see it, climate equity involve ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

Adaptation redux	David Roberts	05 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Roger Pielke Jr. has an overheated post up today wondering why I don't care about the suffering of "millions, perhaps billions" of people around the world adversely affected by climate. Oy. I hesitate to reply, but here goes. People, mainly poor people -- in the U.S., but far more so in developing countries -- are increasingly vulnerable to severe weather: floods, droughts, hurricanes, etc. The reasons have mainly to do with growing population, bad land-us ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate equity (all these topics)

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