IEA Climate Report: The Relentless Logic of War

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DATE : Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:06:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2008-06-12 05:06:00
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Two days after the derailment of the long-awaited climate debate in the US Senate, the International Energy Agency last week issued its how-to-do-it report on achieving a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The self-regarding greatest deliberative body in the world got sidetracked by a demand to have the 491-page bill read out loud. The IEA, energy think tank to the western nations that make up the OECD (think NATO without guns), made abundantly clear that achieving even the low end of the 50 - 85% reductions called for by the IPCC will require a "global revolution ... in the way that energy is supplied and used." READ MORE

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