The UN Climate Summit and a Key Issue for the 2015 Paris Agreement
The UN Climate Summit and a Key Issue for the 2015 Paris Agreement / Robert N. Stavins, An economic view of the environment, 27/09/2014
World leaders converged at the United Nations in New York City this past week for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s much anticipated Climate Summit, a lead-up to global negotiations that will take place in Lima, Peru, in December of this year, and culminate a year later in Paris. The challenge before negotiators is great, because there are significant obstacles to reaching a meaningful agreement, as I describe in an Op-Ed that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, September 21st, “Climate Realities.”…