As G-8 leaders start their 3-day talking circus on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, four new reports confirm that our race towards economic and ecological collapse continues at an increasing speed: The Australian government published its long-awaited Garnaut report (over 500 pages), sort of a Stern report for the country down under. Economist Garnaut’s (not… » read more
Posted by Willy De Backer
6 May, 2008
A few pointers to some must-read reports or articles which I discovered in the last ten days: Nicholas Stern’s latest report “Key elements of a global deal on climate change“: not much different from his 2006 Stern review for the UK government but rings the alarm bell a bit harder as very little has really… » read more
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aviation, Biofuels, Carbon capture and storage, Climate change, Stern report, sustainability |
13 March, 2008
Politicians should stop pretending that decarbonising our economies can be done on the cheap. This is the conclusion of a damning analysis of EU climate/energy policies published by Oxford energy professor Dieter Helm in the Wall Street Journal today. Helm starts his evaluation with a critical look at the EU’s achievements in terms of emission… » read more
Posted by Willy De Backer
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Climate change, European Commission, European Union, Global Warming, Stern report, sustainability |
30 October, 2007
Two articles in the Guardian are worth spending a bit more time on today. The first “Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?” is by environmental journalist George Monbiot and deals with the UNEP’s recent report on the state of the planet. Read also my own recent comments on this… » read more
Posted by Willy De Backer
In Europe, Sir Nicholas Stern’s Economics of Climate Change report has by now become the “bible” of climate policy. Stern’s conclusion that the cost to the world economy for dealing with climate change would be 1% of the global GDP whereas the cost of NOT dealing with it would be as high as 5% and… » read more
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Climate change, European Union, Global Warming, Stern report |
