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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Climate policy in a changed environment
The financial crisis and the elections in the US have markedly changed the environment for a global climate policy. This could have a decisive impact on the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen at the end of 2009, the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes: "The Copenhagen ruling for which the foundations were laid a year ago at the Bali Climate Conference is likely to be considerably less ambitious than the Bali Roadmap had foreseen. ... So in 2009 the negotiations will take place under extreme pressure. If long-term and comprehensive cooperation does not begin to take shape in Copenhagen, the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol could be at stake. Some of the [41] Annex I industrialised states [in the climate framework convention] are unlikely to be willing to ratify a 'Kyoto II' without substantial contractual commitments on the part of the US and important emerging economies. Although this would not - should scientists fail to give the all-clear signal all of a sudden - represent the end of a global climate policy, it would create a huge debacle."
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Climate policy for newly industrialised countries
Heidi Blattmann advises against making the Kyoto Protocol the only benchmark for climate policy, pointing out that other approaches also deserve attention. The US and China, she says, have unjustly been made the scapegoats of climate protection: "They pin their hopes above all on technological development and accelerated economic growth, which could contribute to the spread of climate-friendly technologies and thus facilitate the transition to a world with reduced greenhouse emissions. This is why decoupling economic growth from increased greenhouse emissions is right at the top of their list of national climate goals. Such an approach is without doubt also appealing to other newly industrialised countries and even seems to be attracting 'Kyoto countries' like Japan and Canada. Bush's invitation to more than a dozen countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions - including China, Russia, India, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico - will no doubt arouse interest in a few capitals."
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