November 24 @ 13:30 – 15:00
Speaker: John McClintock
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Summary:
Climate change is upon us, yet we are far, far away from any solution. That’s because there are two pieces missing from the jigsaw puzzle: a global agreement on how to share out the adjustment to a low-carbon world, and national reduction plans which have citizen buy-in. This talk focuses on the first lacuna: the lack of a global agreement and argues that we need a broad deal, between the developed and developing world, which includes more than reductions in emissions and the transfer of money–it needs to include access to the markets of developed countries.
Biography:
John McClintock is an agricultural and environmental economist of Irish nationality, living and working in Brussels. He has lived and worked in eight countries of the world. He has written a book which analyses the inner workings of the United Nations and the European Union. We need a world union to allow us to set and enforce rules at the global level, as the European Union does at the European level and which has transformed Europe from a war-ravaged continent into a zone of peace and prosperity. If it so choses, Canada could help to found such a world union.
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