Putting a price on nature seems like a simple idea: If nature had a price, wouldn’t corporations and governments be less likely to destroy it? Wouldn’t putting a price on nature overturn what economist Pavan Sukhdev calls “the economic invisibility of nature”?
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More reactions to COP20 and Lima’s “Roadmap to global burning”
Not much happened in Lima during this year’s UN climate negotiations. The fact that only a “Call for Climate Action” came out of Lima amounts to an admission that despite nearly 20 years these annual UN climate meetings, nothing has been agreed that will come close to addressing climate change.
REDD-Monitor’s top ten posts in 2014
Scams and frauds were the top stories on REDD-Monitor in 2014. The previous year, all ten of the most popular stories were about companies selling carbon credits as investments. This year the top seven stories were about scams.
The Lima Call for Climate Action: Low on ambition, low on finance, low on climate justice, low on action
Early in the morning of 14 December 2014, the COP20 President and Peruvian Minister of the Environment, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, gavelled through a new Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action text, and announced the “Lima call for climate action“. “This is not perfect,” he said, “but it respects the positions of…
Yeb Saño: “Watch out for last minute railroading of a weak agreement” at COP20 in Lima
The usual power politics have kicked in at the UN climate negotiations. Several days of friendly chats at COP20 in Lima saw little progress but no really big arguments. Then on Thursday morning, 11 December 2014, G77 and China asked for a halt to the discussions.