Posted on June 9th, 2011 by Wil Burns
For instructors who cover climate geoengineering in your climate courses, an excellent introduction is a symposium held by the Council on Foreign Relations last year, Developing an International Framework for Geoengineering. The site includes a transcript of the presentations, by Granger Morgan of Carnegie-Mellon, John Steinbruner of the University of Maryland, and Ruth Greenspan-Bell, of [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2011 by Wil Burns
For those of you that use films in class, FYI; these are usually quite good at conveying developing country perspectives on climate issues.
Voices from the front line of climate change: a CDKN special film (4 minutes 13 sec)
http://cdkn.org/resource/voices-from-the-front-line/
Climate change is having a profound impact on developing countries that can least afford it. View a range [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2011 by Wil Burns
A new article in the journal Energy Policy would be an excellent reading for a post-Kyoto era module, Everett B. Peterson, et al., Environmental and economic effects of the Copenhagen pledges and more ambitious emission reduction targets, 39(6) Energy Policy 3697-3708 (2011).
Among the take-aways from the analysis, which employed a multi-region, multi-sector dynamic computable general [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2011 by Andrew Long
A recent New York Times article justifiably questions the future of cap and trade in light of a recent ruling putting implementation of California’s climate change law on hold. The basic argument against cap and trade in the case is one of environmental justice: if regulators focus too intently on GHG emissions, they may allow harmful concentrations [...]
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