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Benito Müller

Benito Müller is director of Oxford Climate Policy and senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

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The G8, the Kyoto Protocol and the world

British, European and Japanese leaders must reaffirm their commitment to the Kyoto Protocol at July’s G8 summit, says Benito Müller. By encouraging participation from developing countries and sub-national parties in the United States, they can advance the global climate-change agenda.

Where justice and realism meet: a climate change solution?

What should be done, and what can be done, about global warming? The key to a sustainable future for the planet may lie in tying together these two questions, says the Swiss-born philosopher and mathematician Benito Müller. In an interview with Caspar Henderson, the Globalisation editor of openDemocracy, he proposes that the application of ‘distributive justice’ may just help to change life on Earth for the better.