Post Copenhagen, New Avenues for Globally Just Climate Policy

This panel discussion is interesting for two reasons.  First, it was sponsored by the European Green Parties Supporters Network, and thus well-represents the post-Copenhagen discussion, as it took place within the European Green Milieu.  Second, it does not so much focus on GDRs as illustrate how successful it has been in embodying and focusing the overall evolution of the discussion in Europe, on the all-important question: How can we get out of the deadlock – and arrive at a globally just climate policy?

It’s all here, optimism vs. pessimism, debt vs. self-interest framing, debates about national blocs and a “coalition of the willing,” the battle against coal, the problem of intellectual property rights, and, interestingly, “the world of Greenhouse Development Rights,” which is “not merely a world divided between North and South.  It is also a world in which both North and South are divided between rich and poor.