Rich and poor countries have to give ground to get a deal in Copenhagen; then they must focus on setting a carbon price
AT A time when they are not short of pressing problems to deal with, the presence of 100-odd world leaders at the two-week meeting that starts in Copenhagen on December 7th to renew [...]

Part of the answer to restoring the planet to a safe future is in restoring degraded farmlands. Once lush forests these now degraded assets could once more play a role in our shared future.

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) will be a turning point in the fight to prevent climate disaster. The science demands it, the economics support it, future generations require it. In early December, negotiators, ministers and world leaders will assemble in the Danish capital to give the people of all nations [...]

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‘We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp [the issue] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual,’ say James Hansen.
The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for [...]

Excerpt from my book ‘ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World’.
I remembered back to reading the book The Economics of Welfare by A. C. Pigou, who in as early as 1920 argued that competitive marketplaces would not work if producers did not bear the full costs of production, [...]