The 2012 Environmental Performance Index is a powerful tool for diagnosing trends not just across countries but over time, too. Consider what we can learn about overfishing, for example.
Author: Marc A. Levy
Population Map Shows How Close Irene Came to Being Even Bigger Disaster
A stark picture of how close Hurricane Irene came to being an even more serious disaster than it was emerges by overlaying a map of the storm track with a population distribution map. What made the storm as bad as it was had a lot to do with the fact that its trajectory took it [...]
Climate-Security Linkages Lost in Translation
Contrary to recent news stories, the possibility that climate change might trigger conflict remains very real.
The (Welcome) End of Unanimity
The most common reaction to Copenhagen is dismay at the failure to reach binding emission reduction targets. But Copenhagen actually represents a major success.
Why? It signals, finally, the abandonment of an experiment in hyper-multilateralism that never had much chance of success. From the early days of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the dominant view was that any agreement had to be negotiated among [...]
The Military-Climatological Complex
In the movie 2012, the world’s governments must respond to the ultimate global change: overheating of the earth’s core, with attendant giant mega- earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The effective international cooperation it inspires is proportional to the impacts. As the prospects for anything remotely appears to shrink in Copenhagen , this flight of political fancy is starting to look even more [...]
