[clearcutforum] CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

International talks on climate change should focus on putting together the building blocks of global policy. Robert Falkner, Hannes Stephan, and John Vogler of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment call for agreements between countries on key aspects of climate change policy, such as deforestation, adaptation and technology transfer, without a comprehensive, universal and legally-binding treaty.

The international effort to negotiate a comprehensive, universal and legally-binding treaty on climate change has been producing diminishing returns for some time and that an alternative approach is needed which develops different elements of climate governance in an incremental fashion and embeds them in an international political framework.

The researchers indicate that this approach is already emergent in international politics. The goal of a full treaty has been abandoned for the next climate conference in Mexico, which is instead aiming at a number of partial agreements (on finance, forestry, technology transfer, adaptation) under the UNFCCC umbrella. For this to produce results, a more strategic approach is needed to ensure that – over time – such partial elements add up to an ambitious and internationally coordinated climate policy, which does not drive down the level of aspiration and commitment.

Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, has proven that climate change is heliogenic, not anthropogenic. Nevertheless, carbonmonger kleptocrats, using buzzwords like carbon footprint and clean energy, are growing a socialist movement that won't actually benefit Gaia, but will make our lives miserable, spreading the cancer of socialism. Temperature fluctuations are only due to Sun cycles, but are used as an antivenitist instrument, not a real object of interest for socialists who camouflage the environmental game.

Venitis notes global warming is due to a persistent 1,500 year heat cycle, extending back over one million years. Natural factors include continental drift, mountain formation, deviations of Earth's orbit, volcanic activity, and solar variability. For a human generation, solar variability is the most important factor of climate change.

The United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 laid bare the deep fissures in climate politics that make a global deal ever less likely. The Parties to the UN Framework Convention engaged in tough bargaining over nearly every aspect of the proposed rules for mitigating climate change. Rather than promote a global solution in the interest of climate protection, the major powers focused narrowly on securing their own national interest and avoiding costly commitments to emission reductions or long-term funding for adaptation.

The researchers note that some commentators have advocated a bottom-up approach of self-standing, decentralised initiatives. Rather than forcing economic change towards a low-carbon future through top-down regulation, they seek to induce such change through promoting energy efficiency, introducing alternative energy sources and inducing technological breakthroughs throughout the economy.

Preventing a collapse into a decentralised, purely bottom-up approach is of crucial importance, because by abandoning all efforts to create an international climate regime, the bottom-up approach removes a major stimulus for developing more ambitious domestic policies, thus solidifying the lowest common denominator. In contrast, a building blocks approach would recognise that domestic policies need to be embedded in a broader international effort, within the UNFCCC or through an affiliated negotiating process.

The building blocks approach can only be a second best strategy. Whether it will produce the desired results depends on the creation of an international political framework, built around the UNFCCC, which ensures that partial agreements and regime elements are connected and add up to a larger climate governance architecture.

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