Teaching Climate & Energy Law & PolicyThe latest issue of the Carbon Capture Journal is available as an open access issue. The issue has several excellent articles on the current status of Carbon Capture & Sequestration. The piece by the International Energy Agency assessing what needs to be done to make CCS a viable climate change strategy could be a good [...]
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U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF CONGRESSIONAL PARALYSIS
Comprehensive U.S. climate legislation passed the House of Representatives in June 2009 but has stalled in the Senate. What does this mean for U.S. companies, for EPA, for the states, and for the international negotiations? Join us for a frank and lively discussion on how the [...]
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Interesting commentary below on the optimal way to proceed on addressing climate change, good grist for class discussion.
Monbiot and Climate Politics
andrewpendleton | September 21, 2010 at 8:11 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pM3Da-9s
In Today’s Guardian newspaper in the UK, environmental columnist George Monbiot has seemingly woken up to the politics [...]
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Papers from the 2nd UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy: Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy are available for download. The conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policy-makers from countries and organizations all over the world and the papers contain many useful insights.
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OECD has released three papers exploring new issues in carbon markets, including linking emission trading systems and voluntary markets:
Towards Global Carbon Pricing: Direct and Indirect Linking to Carbon Markets (July 2010)
By R.B. Dellink, S. Jamet, J. Chateau and R. Duval
Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both [...]
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Dear Colleagues,
The Coordinated Low Emissions Assistance Network (CLEAN) will be offering a free webinar to share experiences on low emissions development planning, approaches, and methodologies. We invite all officials and experts interested in preparation of low emission development plans to attend. It will be held on September 29, 2010 from 15:30-17:00 Central European Time and [...]
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There’s an interesting new article in Science assessing the climatic implications of current energy infrastructure that could be an excellent student reading in a class section on solutions and future scenarios, Davis, et al., Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure, 329 Science 1330-1333 (2010).
Among the key take-aways of the piece:
Barring the [...]
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An excellent brief reading on climate change geoengineering governance issues, deemed to be “the most serious governance concern that we’re going to be facing in the next couple of decades” according to Maria Ivanova, director of Yale’s Global Environmental Governance Project, has recently been published in Nature Climate Reports: Inman, Planning for Plan B, 4 [...]
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Dear Colleagues,
If you know of students or graduates who would might like to do a PhD (or MPhil) in China, please encourage them to consider the Hong Kong Institute of Education. I would welcome the opportunity to work with candidates interested in global environmental politics and related areas. Students interested in GEP with some kind [...]
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For instructors looking for new materials to address the arguments of climate skeptics, the late Stephen Schneider recorded a television program in June in Australia in which he answered the questions of more than 50 members of an audience skeptical about climate claims. The program is available online, and while a bit painful to watch [...]
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