Hvad vil det reelt betyde for eksempelvis Kina, Indien, USA og EUs økonomier og politiske prioriteter at udfase de fossile brændstoffer som energikilder – det vil fremtrædende økonomer dykke ned i og bruge et år til det.
JOHANNESBURG, 24 September 2013 (IRIN): For some years the idea of a “green economy” that would be less dependent on fossil fuels (fossile brændstoffer som kul og olie, red.) and low on harmful greenhouse gas emissions has been doing the rounds at the UN climate change talks, but reception to the idea has ranged from lukewarm (lunken) to hostile.
Now, another idea for a cleaner economy, the “New Climate Economy Project”, has been announced in New York.
This time, some of the world’s leading economists have signed up, including Lord Nicholas Stern, the Vice-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.
He is the author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, produced for the British government in 2006, the first study to put a price tag on the cost of inaction on climate change.
The Project is a year-long research effort into the economies of a few countries that could include China, India, the US and the European Union.
The aim is to “examine how strategic action on climate change affects their core economic and political priorities,”said Måns Nilsson, deputy director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, who is among the experts involved in the project.
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The research has been commissioned by a group of seven countries – Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, South Korea, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Recommendations and lessons will be drawn from the research that other countries could use or apply.
At the Rio+20 meeting in Brazil in 2012, some developed countries placed the idea of a “green economy” on the agenda as a roadmap to global sustainable development.
This new economic model included phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, the use and production of renewable energies, and creating “green” jobs.
But developing countries at Rio+20 were concerned that the developed world, using their own interpretation of the term “green economy”, could abuse (misbruge) it and impose trade restrictions or set new conditions for providing loans, so the idea did not get much traction (opbakning).
On the other hand, ominous (ildevarslende) signs of warming in the global climate have been growing.
“Over the past five years, Arctic sea ice has melted more rapidly than had been projected by models and, at one point in 2012, 97 percent of the Greenland ice sheet surface was melting,” the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) notes in its 2013 Year Book.
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