28 development dialogue september 2006 – carbon trading45 Larry Lohmann, ‘Whose Voice is Speaking? HowOpinion Polling and Cost-Benefit Analysis SynthesizeNew “Publics”’, Corner House Briefing No. 7, 1998,available at http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk. See alsoKysar, op. cit. supra note 41, pp. 570-78.46 For various irrationalities associated with costbenefitanalysis, see also Henry Richardson, PracticalReasoning about Final Ends, Cambridge UniversityPress, Cambridge, 1994; Martha Nussbaum, TheFragility of Goodness, Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 1986; John O’Neill, Ecology, Policy andPolitics, Routledge, London, 1993; Elizabeth Anderson,Value in Ethics and Economics, Harvard UniversityPress, Cambridge, MA, 1993; David Wiggins, Needs,Values, Truth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987and Mary O’Brien, Making Better EnvironmentalDecisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment, MITPress, Cambridge, MA, 2000.47 Frank H. Knight, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, HoughtonMifflin, Boston, 1921, Part III, Chapter VII. See alsoBox: Carbon Offsets and the Ghost of Frank Knight, inChapter 3 of this special report, pp. 160-161.48 Evan Mills, ‘Insurance in a Climate of Change’, Science309, 12 August 2005, pp. 1040-1044.49 For example, an Oxford University programmeattempting to model climate change between 1920and 2080, and run on thousands of home computersin Britain, had to be restarted in April 2006 aftermodelers decided that ‘one of the input files to themodel hadn’t been increasing the amount of sulphatepollution in the atmosphere (sometimes called the“global dimming” effect) as it should have done’,resulting in an ‘unmasked’ and therefore exacerbatedwarming. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/updates1.shtml.50 Fred Pearce, ‘Harbingers of Doom?’, New Scientist2457, 24 July 2004.51 Paul N. Edwards, ‘Global Climate Science, Uncertaintyand Politics: Data-Laden Models, Model-Filtered Data’,Science as Culture 8, 4, 1999, pp. 437-472.52 Paul N. Edwards, ‘The World in a Machine: Originsand Impacts of Early Computerized Global SystemsModels’ in Thomas P. Hughes and Agatha C. Hughes,Systems Experts and Computers, MIT Press,Cambridge, MA, 2000, pp. 221-254.53 David Stainforth, ‘Modelling Climate Change: KnownUnknowns’, Open Democracy, 3 June 2005, http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/2571.jsp; see also James M. Murphy et al.,‘Quantification of Modelling Uncertainties in a LargeEnsemble of Climate Change Simulations’, Nature 430,12 August 2004, pp. 768-772.54 George Myerson, Donna Haraway and GM Foods, IconBooks, Cambridge, 1999, quoted in Hugh Gusterson,‘Decoding the Debate on ‘Frankenfood’’, in BetsyHartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles Zerner:Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties,Rowman and Littlefield, New Jersey, 2005.55 Eugene Linden, op.cit. supra note 8.56 Paul Brown, ‘Islands in Peril Plead for Deal’, TheGuardian, 24 November 2000, available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,782560,00.html.57 United Nations International Strategy for DisasterReduction, ‘Natural Disasters and SustainableDevelopment: Understanding the Links betweenDevelopment, Environment and Natural Disasters’,Background Paper No. 5, Geneva, 2002, p. 3,http://www.un.org/jsummit/html/documents/backgrounddocs/unisdr%20report.pdf. See alsoChristian Aid, The Climate of Poverty: Facts, Fears andHope, Christian Aid, London, 2006.58 Michael Northrop and David Sassoon, ‘Catching upwith Fiduciaries’, Environmental Finance supplement,November 2005, p. S40.59 Paul Harremoës et al., The Precautionary Principle inthe 20 th Century, Earthscan, London, 2002, pp. 210-218.60 Brian Fagan, op. cit. supra note 35, pp. xiv-xvi.61 ‘The End of the Oil Age’, The Economist, 23 October2003.62 IPCC, Third Assessment Report, Cambridge, 2001,WMO/UNEP, cited in Joseph E. Aldy et al., BeyondKyoto: Advancing the International Effort againstClimate Change, Pew Center on Global ClimateChange, Arlington, VA, December 2003, p. 34.63 Malte Meinshausen, ‘On the Risk of Overshooting2 o C.’, Exeter, 2 February 2005, http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day2/Meinshausen.pdf.64 Steffen Kalbekken and Nathan Rive, ‘Why DelayingClimate Action is a Gamble’, Centre for InternationalClimate and Environmental Research, http://www.stabilisation2005.com/30_Steffen_Kallbekken.pdf.65 Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization,Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 27.66 Singer, op. cit. supra note 65.67 Andrew Simms, ‘The Ecological Debt Crisis’, Tiempo55, April 2005, p. 19. Simms notes that ‘a decade afterthe UNFCCC was signed, countries including the US, Australia, Canada and many European nations areemitting more carbon dioxide per person than theywere at the time of the 1992 earth summit. . . . in lessthan two days, a US family uses the equivalent in fossilfuels per person as a family in Tanzania will depend onfor a whole year’ (op. cit., p. 18).68 Duncan Austin et al., supra note 1.69 Peter Singer, op. cit. supra note 65.
introduction – a new fossil fuel crisis 2970 See Chapters 3 and 5, as well as such recent works as,for example, George Monbiot, Heat: How to Stop thePlanet Burning, Allen Lane, London, 2006.71 Stephen Kretzmann and Irfan Nooruddin, Drilling intoDebt: An Investigation into the Relationship betweenDebt and Oil, Oil Change International, Washington,2005.72 For recent documentation, see, for example, thewebsite of Oilwatch, http://www.oilwatch.org andPlatform, Pumping Poverty: Britain’s Departmentfor International Development and theOil Industry,Platform, London, 2005, http://www.carbonweb.org/documents/pumping_poverty_web.pdf; and BrettonWoods Project, ‘Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: Corruptionand Double Standards’, London, 2004.73 See http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2005/11/17/1311486-cp.html’target=3D’_blank’>Dennis Bueckert: CNEWS, 17 November 2005.74 MacDonald Stainsby, ‘Canada, the US, and the TarSands’, Z Magazine, 31 December 2005, http://www.zmag.org/.75 United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange, Conference of the Parties 11, OpeningCeremonies: Speaking Notes for the HonourableStéphane Dion, P.C., M.P., Minister of the Environment,Montreal, 28 November 2005.76 Paul Brown, ‘Energy Efficiency Targets Scrapped’, TheGuardian, 18 July 2005.77 House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee,‘Renewable Energy: Practicalities’, Fourth Report ofSession 2003-04, Volume I: Report, Stationery Office,London, 2004, p. 7.78 Tony Blair, video address to the InternationalConference on Renewable Energy, Bonn, 1-4 June,2004.79 Prime Minister’s speech on climate change, 14September 2004.80 Tony Blair, ‘Get Real on Climate Change’, Observer(London) 30 October 2005.81 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research,Decarbonizing the UK: Energy for a Climate ConsciousFuture, Exeter, 2005.82 International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook2005, Paris, 2005, http://www.iea.org/Textbase/press/pressdetail.asp?PRESS_REL_ID=163.83 Darcy Frey, ‘How Green Is BP?’, New York TimesMagazine, 8 December 2002.84 John Browne, ‘Beyond Kyoto’, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004.85 ‘Shell Boss Fears for the Planet’, BBC News, 17 June2004.86 World Business Council for Sustainable Development,Sharpening the Focus for Action – A BusinessPerspective, WBCSD, 2005, http://www.wbcsd.org/.87 Jim Vallette et al., Wrong Turn from Rio: The WorldBank’s Road to Climate Catastrophe, Institute forPolicy Studies, Washington, 2004, p. 5.88 Ibid.89 Jon Sohn et al., ‘Mainstreaming Climate Change at theMultilateral Development Banks’, World ResourcesInstitute, Washington, 2005.90 Ibid.91 Jim Vallette and Steve Kretzmann, The Energy Tug ofWar: The Winners and Losers of World Bank Fossil FuelFinance, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 2004,pp. 21-26.92 See http://web.worldbank.org.
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