paulmcmanus

Is the U.S. too big to fail? - The "failure" to reach a comprehensive and binding agreement on climate charge in Copenhagen was due in some part to two related issues, the scale of nation states and their representative forms of government.

Learning to Love Multinationals

In the fight against climate change, multinational corporations (MNCs) are on the front lines, bringing both scale and scope to the battle.

China: Copenhagen Spoiler or Keen Strategist?

Was China a climate spoiler in Copenhagen or a keen strategist? Are these actions the coordinated effort of a nation that is serious about climate change? Or, does it believe the low carbon economy is coming and an opportunity to establish itself as the economic and geopolitical leader in the coming era?

Should the West be willing to cede economic/trade leadership to China if it's "profits" were to continue to be directed toward environmental protection and climate change mitigation?

For want of a price... A climate may be lost.

Focusing exclusively on reductions from historical emissions has greatly hampered the negotiations thus far, but is in fact only half the problem. Moving forward, a price-based framework has several advantages over the historical emissions based approach. It would get investment moving now rather than later, could break the log jam in the current negotiations and be enacted by COP16 in Mexico City next year.