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  • Newsart for Oily Dirt

    Oily Dirt

    EDMONTON – Calm discussion of the environment nowadays is about as plausible as reasoned dialogue on witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. C…

  • Newsart for Stop Paying the Polluters

    Stop Paying the Polluters

    BRUSSELS – “When the winds of change blow,” says an old Chinese proverb, “some build walls, and others build wind mills.”These same words cl…

  • Newsart for Taking Safety Littorally

    Taking Safety Littorally

    PASADENA – In 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal region. Last year, Hurricane Sandy caused a wall of water t…

  • Newsart for Europe’s Green Recovery

    Europe’s Green Recovery

    BRUSSELS – The need for clean energy has returned to the top of the global economic agenda. China’s new leadership now seems to recognize th…

  • Newsart for Financing the Green Economy

    Financing the Green Economy

    BEIJING – According to new estimates that will be presented at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, $100 trillion is needed by…

  • Newsart for Taming the Arctic Oil Rush

    Taming the Arctic Oil Rush

    VIENNA – The rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover is one of the most dramatic changes in nature currently occurring anywhere on the planet, w…

  • Newsart for The Climate Countdown

    The Climate Countdown

    LONDON – It seems to have become a ritual for United Nations climate negotiations to reach the brink of collapse before an intense, contenti…

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Earth in the Balance

Are the global consequences of climate change worsening? Are cap-and-trade schemes the best way to reduce CO2 emissions? With a global recession looming, does the path to economic recovery lead through low-carbon technologies? Can we fight climate change and improve energy security at the same time?

As the dangers of climate change – rising sea levels, drought, and other extreme weather events – grow, increasing awareness of the urgent need to act has never been higher.

To explore the grave issues at stake, Project Syndicate has created an exclusive series of commentaries, Earth in the Balance, in which a who’s who of world leaders will address the challenges that lay ahead in tackling climate change.

Earth in the Balance will provide commentaries written by heads of state and government and leading opinion-makers from business, academia, and civil society on subjects ranging from the effects of global warming to energy security, green economic growth, and how to assist the poorest countries in adapting to climate change. Among the commentators who have or will contribute to Earth in the Balance are UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Nobel laureate R. K. Pachauri, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, economist Nicholas Stern, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, physicist Freeman Dyson, former Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell Jeroen van der Veer, former director of NASA John Houghton, and former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos.

For climatologists, "perfect storms" occur when natural forces combine to unleash disturbances of vast power. Likewise, global warming and energy security may combine to form a "perfect crisis."

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