Mar 06 2007
Climate Security: CSM Seminar in Cochin, India
By Nick Mabey
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On 6th March 2007, E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey gave a presentation on the theme of Climate Security: Opportunities and Challenges for the UK and India to the first of a series of interactive ‘Climate Conversation’ seminars organised by the Centre for Social Markets.
A pdf version of Nick’s presentation is attached for download.
The online version of The Hindu newspaper carries a report of the event, and states
Nick Mabey, founder-director of the London-based NGO Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G), in his theme presentation, said lack of a political will and not of technology or money was the key impediment in fighting global warming.
He noted that just 30 countries caused 85 per cent of the global carbon emissions. The United States, the worst carbon-emission offender on earth, fobbed off global attempts to get it sign the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing emissions.
He said climate change had usually been reckoned as an environmental or economic issue. But, in order to trigger a radical action it should be seen as a core security issue.
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