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A Place for Climate Justice in the Copenhagen Prognosis

March 5, 2010

The Copenhagen Prognosis: toward a safe climate future is a brief, excellent compendium of the latest climate science, environmental vital signs more generally, and options for sustainable human development.   It was put together by an impressive collective of organizations – the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Energy and Resources Institute, the Potsdam Institute, and more.

GDRs is referenced as a framework for ensuring development justice alongside an aggressive emission reduction plan of action.  The report shows that without low-carbon development pathways, “the developing world is deeply and justifiably concerned that an inequitable climate regime will force a choice between development and climate protection.”  It’s only a shame that the report does not use the now widely accepted 350 ppm target as its basis of analysis.

For more detail, see the longer, more detailed, Copenhagen Diagnosis.

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