Hartwell Paper

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The Hartwell Paper calls for a realignment of climate policy . It was published in May 2010 by the London School of Economics in collaboration with the University of Oxford . The authors are 14 natural scientists and humanities scholars, including Mike Hulme , Reiner Grundmann , Roger A. Pielke (Jr) and Nico Stehr .

The Hartwell House where the meetings were held

The paper argues that "successful decarbonization can only be achieved as a side gain that is lost when pursuing other, politically attractive and uncompromisingly pragmatic goals."

It emphasizes human dignity as a necessary guiding principle of climate policy: "A realignment of the climate problem on human dignity is not only noble or necessary. It should also be more effective than an approach to the environmental sins of people - which has failed and will continue to fail."

Three main goals are established from the required reorientation towards human dignity:

  1. Access to energy for everyone
  2. Environmentally friendly energy
  3. Dealing with climate impacts

The most important measure is "the development of a CO 2 -free energy supply at a cost that is below the cost of a fossil fuel-based energy supply even without subsidies."

reception

Bill Hare criticized the paper for the "misguided approach" of not focusing policy measures directly on reducing greenhouse gases. According to Thomas Bernauer , the paper constructs “a contradiction between the FCCC / Kyoto process and other measures that simply do not exist.” The proposed measures were described by Bernauer as “completely unsuitable” because there are hardly any incentives to implement them. According to Adam Fischer, contrary to the company's own claim to provide a pragmatic and feasible solution to the climate problem, a low carbon tax is an instrument with little chance of success. According to Fischer, the rejection of the international climate policy process will delay climate protection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scientists are calling for radical changes in climate policy.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BMBF , May 12, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fona.de  
  2. ↑ Gwyn Prits: EU Climate Policy after the Crash of 09. ( Memento of 25 March 2014 Internet Archive ) The European Business Review, September, 2010.
  3. ↑ The Hartwell paper. London School of Economics, May 2010
  4. ^ Oblique strategies. The Economist, May 11, 2010
  5. ^ After the crash - a new direction for climate policy. BBC News, May 11, 2010
  6. ↑ Academics urge radical new approach to climate change , Richard Black, BBC, May 11, 2010
  7. ↑ «Hartwell Paper» - Cynical or well-intentioned? Thomas Bernauer, ETH climate blog, June 24, 2010
  8. ↑ When High Hopes Make Little Sense: Why the Hartwell Paper Fails to Deliver , Adam Fischer, Columbia University State of the Planet, Jun 16, 2010

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