GDRs and Climate Reconciliation

In the new online ideas journal People and Place, Howard Silverman talks about the need for an honest appraisal of those nations (as well as individuals) that benefited from the luxury use of greenhouse gas emissions.  In Seeking Climate Reconciliation, Silverman briefly reviews some of the effort sharing proposals to date and then appeals to both the perpetrators and victims of climate change to “turn toward reconciliation – an accommodation that openly acknowledges the past, so that we can better anticipate the future.”  GDRs features in this reconciliation process.  For a backgrounder to this online discussion see Paul Baer’s June 2009 article comparing GDRs to the equal shares proposal, which can be found here.