Bangkok climate talks to begin

AFP story by Charlie McDonald-Gibson:
Meeting for the first time since marathon talks in December on the Indonesian island of Bali, members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will try to thrash out differences that almost derailed their last gathering.
The five-day meeting, beginning on Monday in Bangkok, aims to set out a detailed [...]

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zero carbon required

Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say in the Washington Post:
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease [...]

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Age of Consequences

The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) was reviewed last December by Dave Archer, a climate scientist as the University of Chicago.
Excerpt from the reveiw:
The “expected” scenario calls for 1.3 °C of warming globally above 1990 levels, by [...]

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Sustainability & Moral Disengagement

Here is one of the most thoughtful articles you’ll find on sustainability and the reasons we don’t address it: Impeding ecological sustainability through selective moral disengagement by Albert Bandura, David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology, Stanford University.
Environmental degradation of human origin stems [...]

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UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008

Published in November 2007 by the United Nations Development Programme, the full report is a 384 page PDF. A summary is also available. See this page for links to both and a brief introduction. From the introduction:
FACT: Most wealthy countries, specifically OECD countries, are failing to meet their targets for cutting greenhouse [...]

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the new world order

In a long, provocative essay, Waving Goodbye to Hegemony, Parag Khanna, a senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation, lays out his ideas on how America can change “to deliver tangible gains to people beyond our shores, repair our reputation, maintain harmony among the Big Three [US, EU, [...]

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