MUST STOP SPEW - STERN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Not too many people in the world know as much about climate change as British economist Lord Nicholas Stern. He says the only way to keep change from becoming crisis is to bring the world’s greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions to a peak within 15 years, cut them to half of 1990 levels by 2050 and half again after that.
To halt the average global temperature rise at 2 degrees C. above pre-industrial levels global GhG emissions must be brought from the current 7 tonnes per person to 2 tonnes per person.
Stern sees, as the best path to emissions reduction, a mandatory international cap-and-trade system on GhGs accompanied by massive technology research, development and deployment. These tools would facilitate the growth necessary to prevent economically challenged nations from bearing the brunt of the harm done already by economically privileged nations’ spew.
