This may be of interest to the group!
best,
ruba
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Colleagues,
For those who have not seen it, I thought this might be interesting to
use in classes...
http://www.wri.org/climate/topic_content.cfm?cid=4265
Interesting comparison of the various options in pending legislation.
Interesting article from Boston Globe:
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Carbon confusion
Buying emission offsets is a challenge for consumers
By Beth Daley, Globe Staff | March 12, 2007
This is the second in a series of occasional articles examining climate
change, its effects, and possible
Dear All:
Apropos the article just circulated by Stacy V., is anyone interested in
assembling one or more panels on carbon offsets for next year's ISA?
Ronnie Lipschutz
P.S.: Stacy--in case this gets bounced back to me, could you circulate the
question to the GEP list?
Ronnie asks me to circulate this:
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Dear All:
Apropos the article just circulated by Stacy V., is anyone interested in
assembling one or more panels on carbon offsets for next year's ISA?
Ronnie Lipschutz
P.S.: Stacy--in case this gets bounced back to me, could you
Here is another report on carbon offsets.
Best,
Stefan
NEW PUBLICATION: The Carbon Neutral Myth - Offset Indulgences for your
Climate Sins
Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly
carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the
Ronnie, et al.,
I think it would be an interesting panel. An allied issue of interest are
social justice issues associated with CDM projects, many of which are
already resulting in uprooting of communities and disruption to agriculture
in some regions. Wil
Dr. Wil Burns
Senior Fellow,
I think I speak for all of us with Catholic a upbringing when I say that
this selling of indulgences language is worrying... :)
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Dear Jordi,
A couple of good books in this context for the U.S.:
* Zachary Smith, The Environmental Policy Paradox
* Vig Kraft, Environmental Policy: New Directions for the 21st Century
* Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy
wil
Dr. Wil Burns
Senior Fellow,
GEPED Folks:
Offsets as selling indulgences indeed!! Brilliant!
In so far as carbon offsets connect to the odd world of carbon trading and
the international market for, dare I say it, hot air, one critical volume
that has come my way recently which has considerable teaching potential is:
GEPers,
Following on Rob's email (and related to the earlier string on the
popularity of Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' on college campuses):
I would be fascinated to hear whether countries outside of the United
States are experiencing a similar surge of popular interest in the
environment
Paul:
You may find of interest that, here in Canada, the environment replaced our
sacred cow, health care, as the top priority early this year. The last time
this happened was in the late 1980s.
J.
Jordi Díez
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Guelph
Room 539, Mackinnon
Jordi,
For Canada, I think the starting point would be
Debora VanNijnatten Robert Boardman (eds.), CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY:
CONTEXT AND CASES, 2d ed. (2002).
Ben Cashore (at Yale) is the author of a comparative study of U.S. and
Canadian forest policy making. It seems not to be
Paul and other colleagues,
In Canada there's definitely a 3rd green wave underway. While people
always care about the environment, and of course say so in response to
closed-ended questions about the environment, it usually has not been highly
salient (top of mind). However, in the last few
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