A new report* released Monday December 3rd, produced by 41 institutes from around the world, concludes:
*The Civil Society Report on Climate Change, published by the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change (www.csccc.info). Peter Holle, President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is a member of the CSCCC.
For more information, including a copy of the report or interviews with authors and experts, email newideas@fcpp.org or call 204.977.5049
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The Civil Society Report on Climate Change comprises:
Summary and Policy Recommendations
By the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change
“Human Ecology and Human Behavior: Climate change and health in perspective”
By Paul Reiter
“Death and Death Rates due to Extreme Weather Events: Global & U.S. Trends, 1900-2006”
By Indur M. Goklany
“Weathering Global Warming in Agriculture and Forestry: It can be done with free markets”
By Douglas Southgate and Brent Sohngen
“The Political Economy of Global Warming, Rent Seeking and Freedom”
By Wolfgang Kasper
About the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change
The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change seeks to educate the public about the science and economics of climate change in an impartial manner. It was established as a response to the many biased and alarmist claims about human-induced climate change, which are being used to justify calls for intervention and regulation.
The Coalition comprises over forty independent civil society organisations who share a commitment to improving public understanding about a range of public policy issues. All are non-profit organizations that are independent of political parties and government.
A list of members is available here
QUOTES
Commenting on the release of the report, Barun Mitra of India’s Liberty Institute, one of the 41 organisations who published the report, said:
“The imposition of global limits on greenhouse gas emissions would be immoral, since it would result in today’s poor paying for the benefit of tomorrow’s rich.”
Meanwhile, Kendra Okonski, Environment Programme Director of International Policy Network, said:
“Kyoto 2 is the wrong solution. Such a treaty would harm billions of poor people: it would make energy and energy-dependent technologies, such as clean water, more expensive, and would perpetuate poverty.”
FIGURES
The following figures are supplementary to the report. Data for all figures are available – email: environment@policynetwork.net
Source CRED (www.em-dat.org)
Sources: CRED (www.em-dat.org) and World Bank (World Development Indicators)