Sustainability alerts 20 April 2009 20 July, 2009
Posted by Willy De Backer in China, Climate change, Global Warming, UNEP, global governance.trackback
- Should the West pay for “outsourced” or “embedded” emissions (emissions from products made in China or other emerging economies)? Yes, according to US Commerce Secretary Locke. In May, Nick Stern advocated a sharing of responsibilities between producers and consumers of these emissions. Is our European Trade Commissioner listening?
- During a visit to New York, French President Sarkozy called for a “global organisation on the environment”. Question: will it have real powers or will it just be the next diplomats talking circus? And what about UNEP, the UN organisation which has recently done a lot of great work on greening the economy?
- Bernard-Henri Levy on the “death” of the French socialist party: read the interview (fr) in Le Journal de Dimanche. Correct analysis but wrong solution! Levy’s liberal-right “renaissance” is no more no less than Blair’s “Third Way” which is as dead as a doornail.
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