Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
A couple of days ago, I suggested some potential readings for students on geoengineering, and I just ran across another excellent piece today by Professor Albert Lin at UC-Davis’s School of Law, Geogineering Governance, 8(3) Issues In Legal Scholarship (2009). Lin initially does a nice job of introducing the recognized suite of potential geoengineering options, and ultimately [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
Professor Victor Flatt of the University of North Carolina School of Law has launched a new blog on climate change and the law, on the website of the Houston Chronicle.
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Posted on August 23rd, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
The inaugural issue of Earthscan’s new climate journal, Climate and Development, contains a number of interesting articles, all of which are free access. One of the articles, Okereke & Schroeder, How Can Justice, Development and Climate Change Mitigation Be Reconciled for Developing Countries in a Post-Kyoto Settlement, 1 Climate & Development 10-15 (2009), presents a [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
With it becoming increasingly apparent that temperatures during this century will increase above the 2C “guardrail” that most climatologists now agree will visit extremely serious impacts upon human institutions and ecosystems, and indeed may rise 3-4C above pre-industrial levels or beyond, the drumbeat for “geoengineering” solutions to address climate change becomes louder and louder. The [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
UNDP is pleased to announce the release of three publications arising from the UNDP-UNEP CDM capacity development project in Eastern & Southern Africa. All three publications cover aspects of the bio-carbon sector, a sector that holds much promise in sub-Saharan Africa (and elsewhere) but one that also faces a unique set of challenges and barriers. [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
Here’s a good new potential reading for a climate change course or module on climate change: Sikina Jinnah, et al., Tripping points: barriers and bargaining chips on the road to Copenhagen, 4 Environmental Research Letters 1-6 (2009). In the article, the authors outline the most important “tripping points,” i.e. political barriers and bargaining chips that [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
The following dispatch is from Radoslav Dimitrov, a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Dear friends and colleagues, Regards from Bonn, Germany. This is a brief update on this week’s informal round of climate negotiations ending today. Attached is the electronic copy of a presentation the EU made yesterday. This meeting is part of [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
I’ve found that Webcasta and Podcasts can be a valuable source of materials to assign to students. The folks at Point Carbon have posted a series of excellent webcasts in what they have denominated a “Summit.” Topics covered in the “Summit” include: Leveraging Offsets; Adapting Private Business to Climate Change; Cap and Trade: All Costs [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2009 by Dr. Wil Burns
In a new report published by the The Forum for Atlantic Climate and Energy Talks (FACET), How to Recover from a Likely Climate Disaster in Copenhagen, Stephan Slingerland argues that the current negotiating position of UNFCCC parties renders it virtually “impossible” to achieve the level of reductions in emissions at Copenhagen that the IPCC has [...]
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