A Shift Needs To Be Made!!!

An article in today’s New York Times stated “now, with recent data showing an unexpected rise in global emissions and a decline in energy efficiency, a growing chorus of economists, scientists and students of energy policy are saying that whatever benefits the cap approach yields, it will be too little and come too late”. In the past few years the focus on debates about global warming has been on emissions policy rather then technology policy. As India and China, and other developing nations, grow at a tremendous rate to try and play catch-up with the Western World, developed nations need to change their strategy on how to tackle this increasing threat. In this article, many economists and politicians agree that emission caps must be enforced, but a new wave of information that shows rising emissions and a cutback in technology research funding says differently. A larger emphasis should be in place to get low-carbon emitting technologies out on the market as soon as possible, in some hopes to help developing nations not lose an economic ground (which is the fear if funding for research is put into place rather then getting the technology out to “the people”).

For more information, you can read the article at…http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/weekinreview/06revkin.html?ref=environment

~ by nsinha on April 6, 2008.