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Unpicking Kyoto (4)
Posted on June 29th, 2010 No commentsVideo Credit : Lighting Africa
Unpicking Kyoto
Jo Abbess
20 June 2010PART 4
CONTINUED FROM PART 1, PART 2 AND PART 3
Linking Climate Change to Poverty
There will be no global treaty on Climate Change without a solution for the poor.
The poor in every country are generally low emitters, and models of Low Carbon lives; yet because they are poor, it’s easy for their economic concerns to be swept aside in the global efforts to revive the big Energy systems.
One thing is clear, imposing a “dollar economy”, and thrusting international markets traded in American Dollars on the world’s poor is not the same as creating an environment for true social and sustainable development.
Advancing Africa, Carbon Commodities, Climate Change, Energy Revival access to energy, Adaptation, Africa, CDM, Clean Development Mechanism, Climate Change, dollar economy, Energy, Green Energy, Green Power, landless movement, mitigation, Mitigation & Adaptation, poor, Poverty, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Power -
Leave Africa Alone
Posted on February 8th, 2010 5 comments
Today’s news is that the pastoral life in Africa is sustainable, even with a certain amount of Climate Change :-
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Free Energy : The Nuclear Power Dead-End
Posted on November 12th, 2009 5 comments“Sustainable Development” is a phrase with two distinct meanings.
When people trained in Economics think about what “Sustainable Development” means, they normally assume that Nature’s continuing bounty will sustain our development path. That the pyramid of wealth, the wealth accrual machine and monetary incentives will bring more and more people and material resources into optimal production, and there will be no end to the development of the enrichment of all peoples and the quality of their habitat. Growth is good, for it brings prosperity to all, health, wealth, education, freedom from want and a top-notch built environment.
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A Path to True Enlightenment
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 No commentsOne of my relatives takes the Scientific American magazine on subscription, postal strike notwithstanding, so I was privileged to be able to read an article in the November 2009 edition even before it hits the shelves in WH Smith at the major train stations in London, or Waterloo at least, where I looked for my own copy yesterday evening.
An uplifting, positive plan to green the world’s energy, composed by two Marks, one Delucchi, one Jacobson, both in American academia, yet not dreamers; their practical brains fully switched on and their souls engaged.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/susenergy2030.html
“A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030″ contains some excellent mythbusting material as well as practical proposals for turning over all our Energy supply to truly sustainable sources.
A full-colour PDF is available online :-
http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/sad1109Jaco5p.indd.pdf
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