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An Interview with Bolivian Activist Peregrina Kusse Viza: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamam

April 21, 2010 by Richard Graves
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On Monday, the top US climate negotiator, Todd Stern, admitted that a binding agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions may not even be possible at the next UN climate summit scheduled for December in Cancun. Stern’s comments came after the US took part in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington. While the... [read more]

Another way forward? World Peoples’ Climate Summit launched by Bolivia at UNFCC talks

April 12, 2010 by Climatico Analysis
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings continued in Bonn, Germany from 9 – 11 April 2010. This marked the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 11) as well as the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term... [read more]

COP15: Morality and money

December 11, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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If you want to understand why it will be hard to get rich and poor countries to agree on how to deal with climate change, consider the reaction to a remark by Todd Stern, the U.S.’s chief negotiator, when he arrived here in Copenhagen the other day. Stern said: We absolutely recognize our historic role in putting emissions in the... [read more]

Take-or-pay contracts: Lessons from Brazil and Bolivia

November 3, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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Yesterday’s post on the Gazprom take-or-pay contract dispute mentions a now classic article by Scott Masten and Keith Crocker, “Efficient adaptation in long-term contracts: Take-or-pay provisions for natural gas” (American Economic Review, 1985).  You may wonder if there is newer work on take-or-pay contracting potentially relevant... [read more]

Forest Offsets Scam Exposed, Not a Strategy to Mitigate Climate Change

October 16, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteSerious doubts about the efficacy of carbon offsets projects to produce real, verifiable emissions reductions have been validated by a Greenpeace report, released this week, that exposes a prominent sub-national forest offset project as a "carbon scam." The Noel Kempff Climate Action... [read more]