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The carbon emissions created by so many people flying to Denmark was real, while the emissions targets that the conference sought remained beyond reach.
For example, unlike the World Trade Organization, whose dispute-settlement mechanism imposes penalties for abandoning negotiated reductions of trade barriers, the targets for emission reductions are not binding and enforceable commitments.
The US has not agreed to accept such sanctions for failing to meet emissions targets; but, without penalties, the exercise is largely futile and only encourages cynicism about the effort to combat climate change.
Next month, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to agree on the Sustainable Development Goals: the targets that will succeed the 18 set in the year 2000 by the Millennium Development Goals.
The list of potential targets is impossibly long: 169 in all, toward which trillions of dollars will be spent.
The Copenhagen Consensus, a research organization that I head, asked 82 eminent economists from around the world to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed targets, in order to establish which are likely to do the most good for people, the planet, and global prosperity over the next 15 years.
Our analysis identified 19 targets that would do the most good for every dollar spent.
In fact, each dollar spent on these 19 targets would do four times as much good as spending the same money on all 169.
Keeping kids healthy and well fed are two other highly cost-effective targets.
And it could launch attacks on US, European, and Israeli targets on a global basis.
As the US Federal Reserve inches closer to achieving its targets for the domestic economy, it faces growing pressure to normalize monetary policy.
And, most important, most emerging-market central banks, having established strong track records of meeting inflation targets, no longer have to counter large exchange-rate depreciations with draconian interest-rate hikes.
Sarkozy might even tone down his attacks on the ECB, whose single-minded, inflation-fighting policies have made it one of his favorite targets.
Europe persistently undershoots its growth targets because European policymakers persistently underestimate fiscal multipliers, pursuing austerity instead.
In the second, more successful, phase, an increasing number of countries adopted either explicit or implicit inflation targets.
The Millennium Development Goals, which were set in the year 2000, established quantitative targets for the year 2015.
But, although we are now in the MDGs’ final year, we still lack precise knowledge of whether certain MDG targets have been achieved, owing to the absence of high-quality, timely data.
Some of the most important MDG targets are reported with a lag of several years.
To support the SDGs, such data should be publicly available for all countries at high frequency – at least within one year for key targets, and in real time in sectors where service delivery is vital (health, education, and the like).
But, of the 15 European Union countries represented at the Kyoto summit, 10 have still not meet the targets agreed there.
On the first day of the conference, United Nations climate change chief Yvo de Boer declared how optimistic he was about continuing the Kyoto approach: “Almost every day, countries announce new targets or plans of action to cut emissions,” he said.
Either the targets are unachievable or the numbers are fudged.
And in Thailand, market mechanisms, backed by ambitious targets, are helping the country produce businesses that are regional leaders in waste recycling, including operations now in Laos and Malaysia, while generating thousands of jobs.
The Commission’s Europe 2020 initiative sets specific targets for raising school completion rates and employment levels for all EU citizens.
But realizing key SDG targets – which are fully aligned with the World Bank Group’s own twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity – will require a much larger investment program focused on strengthening land tenure across the developing world.
So Israel is blocking Lebanon’s ports from the sea, has breached the runways of all three jet-capable airfields, including Beirut’s international airport, and remains ready to destroy generating plants and other high-value targets, if necessary, to generate sufficient political pressure on Hezbollah.
If Lebanon’s political forces and Nasrallah’s followers cannot get him to revert to a truce, Israel will bomb more targets, including Nasrallah’s offices in south Beirut.
Though it has not yet been implemented, its waste targets have the potential to save the European Union 190 million tons of CO2 emissions per year.
Increasingly, since the early 1990’s, it had become fashionable to define price stability more precisely through the use of inflation targets.
With hundreds of dams still likely to become targets for protest, pressure will only intensify for a more significant response.
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