Latest comments posted about Accountability: the other climate change on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/575-Accountability-the-other-climate-change http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/575-Accountability-the-other-climate-change And the question is: "is democracy as a suitable form of government for coping with the present crisis of survival?" (Hans Jonas) Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:07:14 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/575#comment-1425 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/575#comment-1425 Anthony Barnett is abslutely right to focus on the EU-China axis as they key to tackling climate change successfully. We have a shared dilemma. Both our economies need to keep growing to maintain social cohesion and political stability. In order to grow we must use energy. For energy security imperatives much of that energy will come from fossil fuels. As the Stern report makes clear, if we fail to decarbonise our energy system in next forty years our economies will not grow. It is time we worked out how to bring the world's fastest growing economy together with the world's largest market in a trade and investment led approach to climate change that is opportunity led rather than constraint driven. Above all, we must work out how to deploy advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage very rapidly. After all, the pensions of everyone under thirty in Europe depends on the success of our investments in the China and their success depends on our consumption. Tom Burke Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:07:14 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/575#comment-585 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/575#comment-585 This is a powerful article because it calls for a strategic approach to the crisis of the global environment that combines the influence of government, business and civil society, and names issues where this has happened before. But at the same time warns that without leadership nothing will happen and asks who can provide this. There are three candidates, the US, the EU and China, according to the author. He assumes that the UN is hopeless. But this is a global issue that demands co-operation, do we have to wait for one leader? Could China and the EU act together? Anthony Barnett Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:58:05 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/575#comment-576 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/575#comment-576