Action on climate change
FT Climate Experts' Forum: The Copenhagen agreement - disappointment or relief?
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director comments on the end result of COP-15 in Copenhagen
Which Policy to Address Climate Change?
IPN Opinion article
Carbon control doesn't look like a very smart solution to climate change.
Julian Morris in the FT Climate Experts' Forum
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director Julian Morris discusses the Copenhagen negotiations
What's killing the poor is poverty, not climate change
IPN Opinion article
There is a growing idea that rich countries should slash imports from poor countries whose antiquated factories are heavy carbon emitters: this eco-protectionism is in fact good old-fashioned protectionism and would hit the poor hardest. What hurts the poor right now is not climate change but poverty: growth is the only way out.
Adaptation not emissions cuts is policymakers' best approach
IPN Opinion article
Current climate change talks in Bali are focussing on a "Kyoto-2" with global caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. But such a treaty would harm the poor, hampering their adaptability to climate change, while doing little to prevent it.
Imposing Kyoto-style emssions restrictions on poor countries would be 'immoral' says NGO coalition
IPN Press release
Climate Controls Dangerous to Developing Countries
IPN Opinion article
THE Institute of Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) has warned African countries that Kyoto protocol on climate control aimed at reducing energy use amongst other things, would halt economic growth and worsen the poverty situation in developing countries.
IPPA in a statement by its Nigeria coordinator, Mr. Thompson Ayodele, said attempts to control the climate would thwart human's ability to adapt to climate change.
Greenpeace, biz urge climate change action
IPN Opinion article
The business community and the environmental action group Greenpeace, in a self-described unprecedented event, Thursday joined to urge action on climate change and to demand the United States ratify the Kyoto climate protocol.
Nature's Revenge: Hurricanes, Floods and Climate Change
IPN Opinion article
From the introduction: "How society responds to climate change has extremely important implications for the future of social and economic development. For some, the potential threats posed by a warmer climate are regarded as necessitating significant action now, particularly to reduce the level of human-produced carbon dioxide emissions. For others, the economic consequences of such actions are regarded as being far more harmful to the future well-being of people than the possible impacts of climate change and a major hindrance to the ability of future generations to respond to the environmental changes that they encounter."
