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Monday 10th December

Ways in which we are doomed # 94

David Steven, 10 December 2007

Does climate change lead to war? UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon thinks so. Darfur "began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," he claimed back in June.

The suggestion is controversial. Idean Salehyan is an especially fierce critic. Writing in Foreign Policy, he accused Moon of ‘perverse logic'. The Sec Gen's irresponsible rhetoric merely allowed "oppressive, corrupt governments" to escape blame for their actions, Salehvan claimed.

Thursday 6th December

Follow the money – interview with a carbon capitalist

6 December 2007

The Kyoto Protocol, whose future or obituary is under construction in Bali, set the first framework for a global carbon market with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in 1997 (although it did not actually come into operation until the Protocol came into force in 2005). Critics of the CDM are not hard to find, but the substance of their objections varies enormously. They range from NGOs like the International Rivers Network which says it opens the door to huge scams, to multi-million dollar companies which want to make CDM work but say it has been hobbled and risks losing credibility altogether.