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Here is a review of a book I finished in February. After reading Crossing The Energy Divide, I started right away The Plundered Planet by Paul Collier, a professor of Economics at Oxford who worked for the World Bank.
This is the sequel of The Bottom Billion, which was published in 2007 and explained why some countries fail at reaching economic growth, preventing people to have access to food, water and electricity…
The Plundered Planet offers an interesting discussion on what is referred in economics and sustainability as the resource curse, a critical factor for least developed countries. Continue »
It is no news if you have been reading this blog as China – alongside with other nations – has been calling the richest nations to cut drastically their GHG emissions by 2020 in order to prevent the worse from occurring.
Now the 49 least developed countries are calling the G8 to cut their greenhouse gases emissions by no less than 45 percent by 2020 to limit rising temperatures to 1.5°C (compared to 2°C generally agreed upon).
When I see the lack of commitment toward climate change mitigation I seriously wonder if this call will be heard in Copenhagen. This is a pity as we have seen previously that it can be done. Continue »
