Stern report: the key points
Dangers, recommended actions and economic impacts.
Year: 2006
Peak oil – Oct 30
“Asleep In America” promo on YouTube /
FTW report on the Boston oil conference /
William Clark on petrodollar warfare /
Grinzo: Securing future energy will be difficult but doable /
Shell exec sees gas supplies tightening
Stern figures don’t add up for world’s poor
Christian Aid today broadly welcomed the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, but warned that its conclusions would still expose millions of poor people to an unacceptably high risk of disease, drought and famine.
2006 Boston ASPO: global warming
The first evening of the ASPO-USA conference kicked off with …the subject of global warming (GW). Why global warming? Because it is what you get when you burn up lots of fossil carbon-based fuels and load the atmosphere with otherwise excess levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). GW is the other side of the coin of Peak Oil.
Drastic action on climate change is needed now – and here’s the plan
It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern’s report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it.
£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change
Landmark report reveals apocalyptic cost of global warming.
Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will cost the world up to £3.68 trillion unless it is tackled within a decade.
Impressions of ASPO-USA
Impressions of the ASPO-USA conference held this week at Boston University.
Available Now From Transition Culture – Energy Descent Pathways
Rob Hopkin’s dissertation is, according to Richard Heinberg, “an extremely valuable resource for community leaders and other policy makers, all of whom must make the energy transition their first priority in the years ahead.”
Climate – Oct 29
Climate change: 5 ways to make a difference /
Panel on climate coverage /
Africa ‘faces catastrophe’ unless West acts on climate change
Agriculture – Oct 29
This crop revolution may succeed where GM failed /
The shining promise of ethanol doesn’t add up for farmers
Energy policy – Oct 29
Morales’ gas nationalization complete /
Bolivia waiting for nationalization /
China limits exports of energy intensive commodities /
Miliband calls on UK Chancellor to devise new menu of eco-taxes
Economics – Oct 28
Der Spiegel: America and the dollar illusion /
The hunger for oil conquers all /
GAO Chief warns economic disaster looms
