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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?
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Asia’s Energy, Asia’s Security
Sanjaya Baru Series: Earth in the Balance 2012-01-16As Asia’s rising – and increasingly rival – powers seek to sustain growth and ensure stability, energy security has moved to the forefront of Asian geopolitics. As a result, the time is ripe for fresh ideas and innovative initiatives aimed at addressing Asia’s energy-security concerns in the Middle East.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 7817
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Why Development Aid is Not Enough
Erik Solheim Series: Earth in the Balance 2012-01-11
We must be careful not to fool ourselves into believing that the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved through development aid alone. The wider politics of poverty must be placed at the top of the international agenda, along with the three factors most critical to development: climate, conflict, and capital.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 9386
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The Impoverished “Asian Century”
Chandran Nair Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-12-06Western anxieties about an "Asian century" stem largely from the precedent of twentieth-century geopolitical structures, in which the West dominated less-developed nations. But this geopolitical dynamic is outdated, and Asia would suffer as much as the West from attempting to emulate the Western consumption-led economic-growth model.... read Comments: 8 Recommended: 2 Read: 12566
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China’s Dam Frenzy
Brahma Chellaney Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-12-02
Since 1949, China has completed, on average, at least one large dam per day, and today boasts more dams than the rest of the world combined. But China's over-damming of rivers has already wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems, and the social costs – both at home and abroad – have been even higher.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 11062
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New Hope on Global Warming
Heherson Alvarez and John Topping, Jr. Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-11-23The Kyoto Protocol, aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, is due to expire in 2012, with only dim prospects for an extension. But if private individuals and corporations begin to fund carbon-reduction projects now, efforts to prevent global warming may have some hope of succeeding.... read Comments: 6 Recommended: 0 Read: 7041
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The Birth of a Power Source
Roland Kupers Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-11-01
Some argue that the market, not governments, should decide which technologies come out ahead in the race to decarbonize the power system. But the market can work its magic only when individual companies are large enough to fund the early learning curve of a new technology until it becomes competitive.... read Comments: 3 Recommended: 0 Read: 9277
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The Vanishing Arctic
Stefan Rahmstorf Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-10-17In September, the sea-ice cover on the Arctic Ocean melted all the way back to the record-low level recorded in September 2007. If this continues, we will probably see an ice-free North Pole within the next 10-20 years – with disastrous consequences for the global climate system.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 1 Read: 15318
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The Amazon or Oil?
Eric Chivian and Rigoberta Menchú Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-10-06Charles Darwin would appreciate the irony of Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Yasuní, home to the highest concentration of biodiversity in the Western hemisphere, is itself engaged in what Darwin called “the struggle for existence.”... read Comments: 3 Recommended: 0 Read: 8914
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The Pirates of the Fisheries
Jane Lubchenco and Maria Damanaki Series: Earth in the Balance 2011-09-05
Piracy off the coast of East Africa has grabbed headlines in recent years, but there is another type of piracy that has received far too little attention. Pirate fishing around the world is costing fishermen their jobs and income, and is inflicting serious harm on the ocean environment.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 5352
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