Oliver Tickell will be there to discuss the international climate change negotiations at Copenhagen in December.  Oliver is the author of ‘Kyoto2: how to manage the global greenhouse’, a framework for a new climate agreement under the UN Climate Convention intended to replace the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. His talk will provide a stimulating and relevant proposal for the deal that needs to be secured at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in December. The meeting will also consider how Scotland can influence the negotiations.

 

George Monbiot's review of Kyoto2: “(Tickell) shows that there is no logical basis for dividing up the right to pollute among nation states….Carbon rationing, he argues, requires a level of economic literacy that’s far from universal in the most advanced economies, let alone in countries where most people don’t have bank accounts. Instead Tickell proposes setting a global limit for carbon pollution then selling permits to pollute to companies extracting or refining fossil fuels.”