Report Calls For End of Current Climate Policies

A report titled “How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course”, written a group of International academics, is calling for world leaders to abandon their current policies on climate change.

The report, published by the London School of Economics’ (LSE) Mackinder Programme and the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation & Society, calls for G8 nations and new rising economies to focus on energy efficiency and de-carbonising power stations. They claim the currents strategies based on overall emissions cuts has failed and will only continue to do so.

Gwyn Prins said the current system of attempting to cap carbon emissions then allow trading in emissions permits had led to emissions continuing to rise. He claims world proposals to expand carbon trading schemes and channel billions of dollars into clean energy technologies will not work.

“The world has been re-carbonising, not carbonising. The evidence is that the Kyoto Protocol and its underlying approach have had and are having no meaningful effect whatsoever. Worthwhile policy builds upon what we know works and upon what is feasible rather than trying to deploy never-before implemented policies through complex institutions requiring a hitherto unprecedented and never achieved degree of global political alignment.” Prof. Gwyn Prins

The report has met much dispute. Critics of the report’s recommendations say they are a dangerous diversion and so0me environmentalists fear that the solutions it proposes will not work.