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Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action.
In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, Kyoto2 seeks to succeed where the original agreement failed. Regulated by an independent body, the funds could be poured back into healing the wounds inflicted by climate change. In his combination of idealism with realistic proposals, Tickell exposes the flaws in current approaches, and envisions a fairer and more effective system.
Kyoto2 promises to banish the dejection of the post-Kyoto era, reviving hope that the cure for the crisis facing our planet is still achievable.
In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, Kyoto2 seeks to succeed where the original agreement failed. Regulated by an independent body, the funds could be poured back into healing the wounds inflicted by climate change. In his combination of idealism with realistic proposals, Tickell exposes the flaws in current approaches, and envisions a fairer and more effective system.
Kyoto2 promises to banish the dejection of the post-Kyoto era, reviving hope that the cure for the crisis facing our planet is still achievable.
- GenresScienceClimate Change
304 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2008
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August 10, 2011
Tickell's basically nailed it here. If implemented, Kyoto2 -- or a global agreement along broadly those lines -- would effectively and decisively prevent catastrophic climate change, with the realistic atmospheric GHG stabilisation target of 350ppm CO2-eq, at the same time as it builds humanity's collective future based on sustainable carbon-free energy systems and sustainable agriculture and forestry. And it would deal with the global financial crisis because almost all of the solutions to climate change and unsustainable 'resource' exploitation involve dramatically more labour; that is, jobs.
The only problem I have, and the reason it loses half a star, is Tickell has all but avoided any discussion of how we could possibly accomplish it. But then he didn't set out to write a political treatise on the social challenge of our times; he wrote a compelling framework for us to strive for.
The only problem I have, and the reason it loses half a star, is Tickell has all but avoided any discussion of how we could possibly accomplish it. But then he didn't set out to write a political treatise on the social challenge of our times; he wrote a compelling framework for us to strive for.
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