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WSJ: Global Warming and the Poor

Author: Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal says if global warming really is the catastrophe the alarmists claim, the least they can do for its victims is not to patronize them while impoverishing them in the bargain.

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Der Spiegel: The G8 Is Dead

Author: Dirk Kurbjuweit

The L'Aquila summit showed just how irrelevant the G-8 has become, as emerging economies demand more and more of a say at the negotiating table. But the new focus on common survival means that Western values such as human rights and democracy are being neglected.

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NYT: A Lesson on Warming

If President Barack Obama expected an obstacle-free path to reaching a global--or even a domestic--consensus on climate change then he was in for a surprise at the G8 meeting in Italy, argues a New York Times' editorial. Leaders from developing and industrialized countries differ on proposed reduction targets while a widespread skepticism about the United States' ability to implement substantive reform hangs over the president's negotiations.

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Yale Environment 360: Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or A Tax?

Authors: Frances Beinecke, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Fred Krupp, Roger A. Pielke Jr., Robert N. Stavins, Charles Komanoff, Eileen B. Claussen, and Baruch Fischhoff

The days of freely dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are coming to an end, but how best to price carbon emissions remains in dispute. As the U.S. Congress debates the issue, Yale Environment 360 asked eight experts to discuss the merits of a cap-and-trade system versus a carbon tax.

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McKinsey Quarterly: What Is Carbon Capture and Storage?

Author: Climate Change Special Initiative

Executives and public policy makers should familiarize themselves with the technologies involved in carbon capture and storage (CCS) as they work toward reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, McKinsey's Climate Change Special Initiative reports.

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