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Climate Change & Environment

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The threat of climate change and global warming, fueled by relentless commercialization and excessive consumption, has turned into a fighting ground for both policymakers and concerned citizens. The coming decade is set to determine not only a collective response to reducing carbon emissions, but the entire future direction for international development and the global justice movement.

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The Emissions Emergency Is a Crisis of Justice

With the atmosphere’s ability to absorb carbon critically limited, the failed Copenhagen negotiations revealed the greatest resource-sharing problem of all time - what kind of a climate transition would be fair enough to actually work. By Tom Athanasiou.

Linking Climate Justice to Tax Justice

Taxes on anonymous wealth and foreign exchange transactions could raise significant revenue towards climate adaptation for poorer countries. Such a proposal is not only feasible, but morally justified by the ‘polluter pays’ principle, argue James S. Henry and Dr. Brent Blackwelder.

Carbon Emissions ‘Outsourced’ to Developing Countries

Many developed countries 'outsource’ over a third of their carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumption of goods and services. These findings support an ethical argument for rich nations to lead global attempts to cut emissions, say scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

A Multi-Scale Approach to Coping with Climate Change

Given the complexity of global warming, waiting for an effective international "solution" to the problem is not feasible. It would be better to adopt a multi-scale approach to addressing climate change, starting at the local level, argues Elinor Ostrom.

Population and Climate Change: The Debate

With resource scarcity and climate change looming on the horizon, the debate on how population growth is impacting the environment and what to do about it is intensifying. Three commentators present their views in the New Internationalist.

How Close Are We to the Two Degree Limit?

Countries will have to be far more ambitious in cutting greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to effectively curb a rise in global temperature at 2 degrees Celcius or less, says a study analysing the pledges of sixty governments. Report by the United Nations Environment Programme.

Searching for Climate Resilient Development Paths

A meaningful response to the global climate crisis requires the implementation of new models of climate resilient development. A good starting point would be to define sustainable livelihoods, rather than growth, as the overarching objective of economic progress, argues Lyuba Zarsky.

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