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Carbon reductions or poverty reduction?
Poor countries can't afford to tackle climate change |
Jason D Scorse |
15 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I know, I know, this is a false choice that skeptics use to stall action on climate change. Or is it? Check out this article from Reason. It makes some interesting points. Here's a quick summary: Developing countries do not have the funds to tackle climate change, period. This then requires a massive investment on the part of rich countries. It also requires massive emissions reductions in rich countries, which will be costly in the short to medium run. Poo ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Update on Blair & Schwarzenegger's climate kissypoo
Leaders agree to share technology; carbon-trading system a possibility, not a done deal |
Lisa Hymas |
31 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| The AP overstated the extent of the climate agreement announced today between British PM Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (and thus Daily Grist overstated it too). Now that the deal's been officially unveiled, a few clarifications: The two didn't agree to launch a new trans-Atlantic carbon-trading market, though they will look into the possibility. Rather, they said the U.K. and California would cooperate on research into cleaner fuels and technologies ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, international politics, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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A geo-green third party?
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David Roberts |
19 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Friedman -- la moustache de la sagesse -- has a column up (NYT $elect; reprinted in full here) suggesting that his "geo-green" shtick would be a good basis for a third party presidential candidacy. God love The Mustache for bringing energy issues to a broad audience, but this column is dopey. Let's start with this: What might a Geo-Green third party platform look like? Its centerpiece would be a $1 a gallon gasoline tax, called "The Pa ... |
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| Topics: energy, international politics, national security, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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The mother of all link posts
Everything you ever wanted to know about ... everything |
David Roberts |
22 Feb 2006 |
Gristmill |
| So much material. So little time. So many complicated issues. So little expertise. How about a big fat linky post! Treehugger has a fantastic interview with Hunter Lovins, long-time champion of sustainability, now president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc. She talks about her current international work, focusing on Afghanistan. I particularly like this exchange, which is relevant to our discussion of poverty earlier: Do you believe that economic developm ... |
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| Topics: Amory Lovins, consumerism, eco-terrorism, hybrids, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Are WEO There Yet?
Why we need a World Environment Organization |
Ethan Goffman |
27 Oct 2005 |
Soapbox |
| With climate change manifesting itself in the melting of Arctic glaciers and the drowning of small Pacific islands, in widespread species extinction, forest loss, desertification, and impending water shortages, the scope of environmental problems has changed. Long-term alteration of the earth's climate is moving us into terra incognita that's difficult or impossible to reverse. Recently, Hurricane Katrin ... |
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| Topics: international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Calling Africa to action on climate
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Lisa Hymas |
02 Dec 2004 |
Gristmill |
| Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and George W. Bush agree on one thing: developing nations need to do more to curb the threat of climate change. (Of course, they don't agree on the much more vexing question of whether overdeveloped nations -- one highly overdeveloped nation in particular -- should do anything to address the ballooning problem ...)Speaking last week at a UNEP climate workshop, Maathai, who presently serves as Kenya's deputy environment minister, t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Pump it up
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Chip Giller |
08 Oct 2004 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Friedman is back at The New York Times after a two-month hiatus. I don't always agree with his stands (and enjoyed the alternative voices that appeared in The Times during his absence), but find it heartening that his second op-ed upon returning has an environmental bent:Of all the shortsighted policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, none have [Editor's Note: Grist editors would not have let slip this misuse of have] been worse than their oppos ... |
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| Topics: elections, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Shaken, Not Yet Stirred
Kyoto will shake things up in the U.S., whether Americans like it or not |
Amanda Griscom Little |
07 Oct 2004 |
Muckraker |
| Last Thursday, when the Russian cabinet moved to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, international leaders called it the dawn of a new era. Putin (left) and Bush take opposing views on Kyoto. Photo: Eric Draper, WhiteHouse.gov Top officials from Canada, Japan, the European Union, and other Kyoto-supporting countries applauded Russia's progress toward ratification, which wi ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Do the Right Thing
Frist sides with right-wingers to stymie widely supported sea treaty |
Amanda Griscom |
17 Jun 2004 |
Muckraker |
| How's this for a once-in-a-blue-moon scenario? Six major environmental groups endorse a sweeping international treaty strongly supported by the American Petroleum Institute and other industry groups. Do you sea what I sea? Photo: NOAA. On May 12, top dogs from the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Environmental Trust, Ocean Conservancy, and three other green organizati ... |
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| Topics: international politics, Muckraker, oceans, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
Climate talks are on the rocks, but not dead yet |
Amanda Griscom |
03 Dec 2003 |
Muckraker |
| The hippest catwalk in Milan this week. Photo: IISD. Milan is famous for opera and fashion, so perhaps it's appropriate that the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol conference, being held in the Italian city this week and next, has so far been characterized by high drama and public spectacle. Some 180 negotiators from around the world have been treated to rumors of deliberate sabotage ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, mercury, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Rules of the Game
It's time to end the race to the bottom |
Elizabeth Sawin |
21 Nov 2002 |
Global Citizen |
| Here's a simple game that makes a not-so-simple point. Stand in a line, with several friends. Each of you hold your right index finger out in front of your body. Now place a long stick across all of your fingers, balanced upon them. Your collective goal is to lower the stick to the ground. There is only one rule. Each finger must remain in contact with the stick at all times. If anyone's finger loses con ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, economy, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned When I Was a Zygote
Survival sometimes calls for cooperation, not competition |
Elizabeth Sawin |
11 Oct 2001 |
Global Citizen |
| "Human beings will never cooperate. War and fighting are part of our very make-up. We're competitive, violent animals." That's what the cynics say, and sometimes it seems as though there is plenty of evidence to support their case. The recent attacks on New York and Washington. Bosnia. Rwanda. Over-fished oceans and over-harvested fores ... |
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| Topics: international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
A post-Sept. 11 manifesto for environmentalists |
Wendell Berry |
11 Oct 2001 |
Soapbox |
| I. The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of Sept. 11 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended on that day. II. This optimism rested on the proposition that we were living in a "new world order" and a "new economy" that would "grow" on and on, bringing a prosperity of which ev ... |
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| Topics: economy, innovation, international politics, national security, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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El Nino -- and El Other Nino
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26 Jan 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| El Nino -- and El Other Nino In its first move on global warming, the Bush administration has asked that the next international summit on climate change be delayed two months. When talks to hammer out the details of the Kyoto treaty collapsed last November at The Hague, Netherlands, the chair of the talks, Jan Pronk, scheduled another session for this May. But U.S. State Department spokesperson ... |
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| Topics: climate change adaptation, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Loy vey!
Did the top U.S. negotiator at The Hague climate talks drop the ball? |
Ben White |
04 Dec 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Lots of grumbling lately from environmental insiders displeased with the way Frank Loy handled negotiating duties for the U.S. during the fruitless climate change talks at The Hague, Netherlands. The main complaint: Bad clock management. Pretty boy Loy. Photo: Courtesy of IISD. Without getting too mired in bad sports metaphors, the knock on Loy, the undersecretary of state for global affair ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, international politics, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Roquefort Files
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Donella H. Meadows, Hal Hamilton |
17 Jul 2000 |
Global Citizen |
| By Donella H. Meadows and Hal Hamilton 17 Jul 2000 José Bové milks 250 sheep in the Larzac region of France, a rocky, windswept place where you would think no farmer could produce anything. But Bové turns sheep milk into one of the gastronomical treasures of the world, Roquefort cheese. Bové is a leader of the local Roquefort producers association and of the second largest farmers organization in France. So he was well-known locally before he and nine friends drove their trac ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, economy, food, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Playing Chicken in Kiev
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07 Feb 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Playing Chicken in Kiev Ukraine plans this year to shut down the Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Ukranian Pres. Leonid Kuchma said Saturday. But Kuchma told U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, who was in Ukraine for a two-day visit, that the plant will close only after the U.S. and other industrialized nations hammer out a deal to h ... |
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| Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, international politics, nuclear power, politics, Ukraine (all these topics) |
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