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(1) John Howard’s off the planet… Peter Vintila April 2007 Governments are just beginning to wake to the reality of climate change. It’s taken just some three decades of concentrated scientific discussion and warning. The latest, just released and genuinely alarming Climate Change 2007 summary report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC – http://www.ipcc.ch/ ) builds on a now huge body of accumulated scientific effort and the work of thousands of scientists…. more
The press is full of climate change discussion now - following Stern and Gore last year and the IPCC a couple of weeks ago. Yes, the issue is commanding a lot of column inches and air time at the moment. But much of that space and time is actually devoted to discrediting the case for caution or those who argue for far-reaching change…. more
(3) People’s climate change festival – for the sake of democracy as well as the planet (An open letter to Bob Brown) Peter Vintila May 2007 Dear Bob
(4) Postmodern or Postkyotan ? Peter Vintila May 2007 Anyone navigating their way to this essay will have a basic understanding of global warming, of the need to reduce some half dozen global greenhouse gas emissions, most notably carbon dioxide or CO2. They will also be familiar with the Japanese city of Kyoto and the now famous but also infamously slow Kyoto Protocol agreed to in principle in 1997 – but not fully drafted or ratified until 2005…..What’s so special about the Protocol and why was its birth difficult? The answer is the same for both questions. It arguably takes international governance of the global environmental commons in general and climate change management in particular, another step forward….. more
(5) Faking Decisions for the Future: Climate Change Peter Vintila June 2007
(6) Beyond Kyoto: Peter Vintila November 2007
(7) User pays won't save the planet : Peter Vintila November 2007
(8) INDONESIA PROVIDES HOSPITALITY AND WIT IN BALI: Peter Vintila December 2007
(9) FISCAL CONSERVATIVES AND OTHER FOOLS IN BALI: Peter Vintila December 2007
(10) Coffee, confection and the trillion dollar climate connection! : Peter Vintila March 2008
(11) Bali’s roadmap to nowhere… : Peter Vintila and Miyume Tanji (draft paper) July 2008
(12) Garnaut favours internationalist strategies — and will soon be very lonely
: Peter Vintila July 2008
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