Policy, Law, Economics and Politics - Deepening Democracy through Access to Information
This privately-owned website is operated and maintained by Creamer Media
We have detected that the browser you are using is no longer supported. As a result, some content may not display correctly.
We suggest that you upgrade to the latest version of any of the following browsers:
         
close notification
26 May 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Creamer Media Reporter
 
 
 
 
DOWNLOAD
The Great Energy Transformation: Why We Can’t Avoid a Low-Carbon Economy - 50 KB
 

This report, by Heinrich Böll Siftung Southern Africa, says that the failure to reach a global deal in Copenhagen may be music to the skeptics’ ears. For them, it is the death of the carbon-constrained world as they see it.

The failure of global collective action may mark a certain departure point: the idea that a low-carbon economy idea or transition, as concept and action, is incapable of staying alive. This is no nearer to the truth than saying that the earth is flat.

What may be a failure globally looks very different from what is happening within the national context. Practically speaking, most of the developed and emerging economies are having to grapple with the idea of a low-carbon economy in one way or the other.

It is an ‘inconvenient truth’ staring them in the face.

Edited by: Creamer Media Reporter
 
 
 
 
  Photos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Advertisements:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Related social media
 
Related social media terms:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Topics on this page
 
 
 
City
 
copenhagen
 
 
 
 
 
 
Online Publishers Association