Economics of global warming
What gets lost in fog of carbon priorities
IPN Opinion article
Copenhagen won't help the poor by promising more unrealistic targets on carbon.
Remove tariffs and subsidies on agriculture to help the poor adapt to climate change, say civil society groups
IPN Press release
UN Climate Plans vs. The Poor
IPN Opinion article
Despite the breakdown of UN climate-change talks in Bali last December, the same themes were still being pushed at the late August week's meeting in Ghana--but now developing countries have begun to question the effects on the world's poorest. They must fight for greater realism in the climate debate: their livings and even their lives depend on it.
Cap and Blockade
IPN Opinion article
A seventh EU member state has decided to take legal action against the Commission, highlighting the absurdity of the growth-retarding Kyoto Protocol and similar "cap and trade" schemes, which would be enormously expensive and relatively ineffective at addressing climate change.
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.
Development, not climate control
IPN Opinion article
The world's poorest people suffer most because of climate -- not climate change. This article argues that restricting greenhouse gas emissions in poor countries would be misguided and counterproductive.
Climate Controls Dangerous to Developing Countries
IPN Opinion article
THE Institute of Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) has warned African countries that Kyoto protocol on climate control aimed at reducing energy use amongst other things, would halt economic growth and worsen the poverty situation in developing countries.
IPPA in a statement by its Nigeria coordinator, Mr. Thompson Ayodele, said attempts to control the climate would thwart human's ability to adapt to climate change.
Globophobia - climate change and disease
IPN Opinion article
\"As Dr Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris points out in a new book, Adapt or Die; the Science, Politics and Economics of Climate Change, published by the International Policy Network, Europe has already been struck down with malaria. In fact, it was endemic in the Fens and in Holland throughout the ëLittle Ice Age' of the 16th and 17th centuries, when temperatures were one degree Celsius lower than they are now but sanitation and drainage were less developed. \"
