Carbon finance
Adaptation not emissions cuts is policymakers' best approach
IPN Opinion article
Current climate change talks in Bali are focussing on a "Kyoto-2" with global caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. But such a treaty would harm the poor, hampering their adaptability to climate change, while doing little to prevent it.
IPN response to the Royal Society and The Guardian's accusations on IPN's work on Climate Change
IPN Press release
IPN to Participate In Montreal COP-11 Climate Meeting: 'Global Climate Control Not Cost Effective– Will Undermine Sustainable Development'
IPN Press release
The shady climate salesmen
IPN Opinion article
Some say that the Kyoto Protocol and other forms of climate control are an 'insurance policy' against climate change. Yet this form of insurance comes with a high premium -- effectively wasting resources that could otherwise be used to solve problems today.
Power to the African People
IPN Opinion article
Julian Morris analyses the G8 issues of Africa and climate change, concluding that aid and climate control will make poverty perpetual. He says "To enable development and adaptation to the current climate, let alone any future climate, Africans must be freed from oppressive governments. Emissions restrictions would hinder that adaptation process, especially if such restrictions are encouraged with 'aid' to their governments."
EU needs to 'get to grips' with climate change
IPN Opinion article
From 31 May - 3 June, the European Commission has convened "Green Week". This year, the theme is "getting to grips with climate change". In this article, Kendra Okonski and Julian Morris argue that "The EU's obsession with reducing greenhouse gas emissions has caused a misdirection of resources which will do more harm than good."
Economic growth saves lives
IPN Opinion article
This week's tsunami tragedy in Asia has the world's attention - but every week in 2005, over 120,000 people will die from the side effects of poverty. All of these deaths, and many caused by the tsunami, could be prevented but for the anti-growth, anti-technology policies of many governments. Sadly, such policies are also promoted by western environmental groups, to the benefit of no one today nor anyone in the future.
