The Kyoto Protocol: Time for Action, Not Hot Air

The debate on the politics of climate change intensifies at www.openDemocracy.net

(PRWEB) May 26, 2005 -- World leaders say climate change is one of the most serious threats facing humanity. Are they right? If they are, who is going to do what about it? Who will benefit and who will pay? The debate intensifies...

- A new strategy for climate change
A market-based approach to pollution control pioneered in the United States suggests a way to overcome inadequacies in the European approach to climate change, and a model the whole world can join to the benefit of its poorest people. http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization climate_change_debate/pollutionpermit_2536.jsp

- After Carbon
The world to come is small, local and carbon-free. David Room from the Post Carbon Institute imagines a future beyond fossil fuels.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/carbon_2534.jsp
   
- Selling climate change
The environmental movement is failing to put climate change on the political map. Whats going wrong? Jon Miller, a man who sells Coca Cola to China, says: forget polar bears - think house prices.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/sellingclimatechange_2533.jsp

- The science of prediction
The mathematics of climate forecasting can clarify the debate about global warming realities and futures, says Dave Frame.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/globalwarming_2530.jsp

- The Kyoto Protocol: time for action, not hot air
Kyoto is the only foundation for global action on climate change, but governments must now start using the tools it provides, says Michael Grubb. http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization climate_change_debate/article_2517.jsp

- Climate change and global security
Manmade climate change threatens civilisation itself. It can be solved, but only with a vast mobilisation of human knowledge, technology and capital, say John Ashton and Tom Burke. http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization climate_change_debate/article_2509.jsp

- Climate change and science: a response to Benny Peiser
The issues raised in Benny Peisers critique of UK chief scientist David King leave the scientific consensus on the principal issues of climate change unaffected. http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/article_2510.jsp
   
- Africa: make climate change history
Climate change in Africa is likely to compound an already fragile condition, says Camilla Toulmin; the future demands that economic development and environmental security walk together.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/article_2513.jsp

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