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After attending a meeting of the Environmental Law Foundation on the legal and economic challenges of climate change, I wrote Sovereigny & Seignorage for Peter Roderick, a director of Climate Justice and former lawyer of Friends of the Earth. My article is the result of analysing the on-line data bases of the Bank of England. It was intended to match Contraction & Convergence - the global framework developed by the most remarkable Aubrey Meyer.
Peter referred me to Stefanie Grant, a human rights lawyer whose advice was to go for 'parliamentary scrutiny' via the Treasury Select Committee.
It was rather a surprise to hear Mark Maslin, professor at UCL, mention global poverty and climate change in one slide. He had just published On Target? to point out the impossibility of reaching government targets of CO2 emissions. Mark encouraged me to describe how 'green growth' is possible and www.greengrowth.wordpress.com was born as another blog.
When I received an email from Jamie Brown asking for a Call for Concepts to finance the national needs for adaptation to climate change, I had the opportunity for putting our complex analysis into 500 words. The proposal is numbered for ease of referencing - for discussions anywhere - whether in time-neutral cyberspace, in 'Virtual Bali' on Second Life or between real people at the same time in the same place.
I had met Jamie in Bromsgrove, the annual conference on monetary reform. Thanks to her work at the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, she had received that Call to which I responded. Her mum Ellen Hodgson Brown had just announced her latest book The Web of Debt and from her I learned about www.ezinearticles.com
Attending the Interdependence Day of the Open University and the New Economics Foundation at the Royal Geographical Society made me discover www.oneclimate.net as a most remarkable climate related networking tool.
Hi Sabine,
Having worked for the Dept of Energy, MoD (Dept of Def.) and the State Department in the USA...I have seen the trajactory before...with Nuclear Disarmament 70% of every dollar made it to the cause, with the "war on terror" less than 60% of every dollar makes it. Now I just heard ominous words from the Dep Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy of the USA on BBC's Hard Talk say the US is going to "break the link" between Developing Countries and Emissions... From objective experience that entails US consultants earning about 50% on every green global initiative that they help facilitate. And, that 50% they pocket will go toward extravigant greenhouse emission consumption. After all FOE was talking about this 10 years ago when they published: http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/pollution_and_poverty.pdf
Keep up the good work.