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“Market volatility is ill suited to environmental cycles,” as MIT’s Janelle Knox-Hayes puts it.
Environmental systems do not have the same luxury; their cycles of reproduction are inflexible.”
But to defer to markets to overcome the environmental woes of capitalism is a blueprint for disappointment – and a recipe for planetary suicide.
Today, most governments separate their environmental authorities from those focusing on energy, agriculture, and planning.
Bhutan’s holistic approach takes into account material, social, spiritual, and environmental factors, measured according to the GNH index.
On the contrary, because effective responses to poverty require a sustained focus on social movements, cultural and environmental concerns, and political leadership, attention to human well-being can play an important part in reducing material disadvantage.
Private organizations such as the Forest Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council provide and, increasingly, implement environmental standards where inter-governmental action has failed.
By the time Putin finally realizes that he has been duped, the world will probably have paid a high price in terms of political stability, strategic security, and environmental damage.
These countries have been more hesitant in trade matters, more ambiguous in the instruments they have chosen for managing the crisis, and remain reluctant to deal with environmental issues.
The Environmental Bullying of New EuropeRIGA -- Instead of helping all EU member states to meet their own Kyoto goals, the European Commission is shifting what should be a shared burden onto its newest members, which are already the most environmentally efficient in the European Union.
The Commission’s decision to cut their CO2 emissions quotas may lead investors in desperately needed development projects to move outside of the EU, to countries with weaker environmental regulations, where their activities would contribute to higher global emissions.
These will have to be financed, at least in part, by the imposition of environmental taxes, including carbon taxes, and taxes on the monopoly and other rents that have become pervasive in the market economy – and contribute enormously to inequality and slow growth.
Fortunately, it is moving to improve its environmental record.
This needs to be the year when a cure for environmental degradation is found and a far more intelligent management of a natural world starts taking shape: this will be a key breakthrough for the wealth but also increasingly the health of humanity in the 21st century.
The environmental disaster destroying seaside communities around the Gulf of Mexico and killing off marine life is a globally important tragedy.
Europe has the best environmental record of all the big powers, is the largest provider of development assistance to poor countries, and is politically stable.
We have to extend our single market to services and energy, change unaffordably generous pension arrangements, invest more in research and development, reform our universities, and channel more money to the job-creating industries of the future, like environmental technology.
The Wealth of SpeciesAlthough broad scientific consensus has identified the loss of biological diversity as one of the world's most severe environmental threats, public recognition of the scale of the danger is lagging.
Ecologists and other environmental scientists bear some of the blame for failing to make their concerns meaningful to ordinary people.
For biodiversity loss, as with so many global environmental challenges, the problem is that the social costs are not captured in market prices.
Rather, they stem from the social and environmental limits now reached by the prevailing model of economic growth – and the version of globalization that this model has underpinned.
On the environmental front, the evidence is dire.
The rapidly rising costs of environmental damage are restricting economic growth, making the relaxation of environmental protections a false economy.
Tackling the world’s environmental and ecological problems, and improving the lot of those who have been left behind, will require public action, such as that which I oversaw in my roles at the World Bank, the United Nations, and the British government.
Moreover, individual businesses have often lobbied against and evaded environmental protections that are indisputably in our collective interest.
Other changes we advocate – especially the creation of prices for resources that reflect their full social and environmental costs – will ensure that future economic growth protects both workers and the planet.
For decades, science and policy luminaries like Calestous Juma, a global advocate for science-driven sustainable development, and Wangari Maathai, an environmental activist and Nobel laureate, championed Africa’s science agenda.
The agreement would also have provisions for intellectual-property protection and what are dubbed the social and environmental issues.
In short, the TPP’s core agenda will offer the region a “Doha Round-type” agreement that includes the social and environmental agenda that developing economies have been resisting within the WTO.
Iran is part of the new Caspian Sea bloc to deal with trade and environmental issues.
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