Time running out for climate talks

Biodiversity worries over climate talks

could be used to force large and unquantified emission cuts on them in the future. Governments in both Europe and America are now softening their call for a global target of halving emissions by 2050, in an attempt to build a consensus around a less ambitious deal. Todd Stern, the US special envoy for climate change, hinted of the softening stance at a meeting in London last month. " Our view a...

Climate change talks stumble on

At the twelfth hour of the UN climate change meeting in Cancún last month, negotiators from more than 200 countries managed to prevent the collapse of the 20-year-old climatechange-negotiating process but otherwise achieved little in concrete new moves to build on the Kyoto protocol, a legal commitment to reduce carbon emissions by some industrialised countries, which expires next year. But the...

Time is Running Out: The 2◦C Target and Optimal Climate Policies

The quintessence of recent natural science studies is that the 2◦C target can only be achieved with massive emission reductions in the next few years. The central twist of this paper is the addition of this limited time to act into a non-perpetual real options framework analysing optimal climate policy under uncertainty. The window-of-opportunity modelling setup shows that the limited time to a...

Running out of time, money, and independence?

A professor forced into retirement by a severe disability finds his personal care assistants essential. But he may not be able to afford their help much longer—and he faces going on Medicaid and possibly becoming institutionalized. Chronic Care Disability Multiple Sclerosis Personal Care Assistant Long-Term Care It’s 9:28 p.m. Serge punches the code into the digital lock and enters my front doo...

It's Time for Doctors to Speak Out on Climate Change.