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Get local with climate change–in more ways than one!
In the article, “Thinking globally, acting locally –institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa” (available here) author Debra Roberts dicusses the importance of climate adaptation on a slightly smaller scale than we are used to thinking of. As a student in this mosaic program, I have been focused on climate negotiations on an international scale. The conference of the parties works to create agreements for greenhous gas emissions on a global scale, but … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change
Global Mitigation, Local Adaption
Sam Parker ’12 Another opportunity to talk about local action! I am always a huge proponent of local action over global and bottom-up actions. I maintain my stance that local actions are important and will be the driving force to get major actions taken towards mitigating GHG emissions and combating climate change, thought I realize that local action will only take us so far on this front. For a real difference to be made in mitigating GHG’s global … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change
Local Government Takes Action!!
By: Christine Burns ’14 The debate between the role local versus federal governments can and should play in climate change legislation is a factor once again in Debra Roberts’ article, “Thinking Globally, Acting locally-institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa.” In this article Roberts discusses the importance of the local municipal government of Durban in initiating climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Generally speaking, Durban is more focused on local development … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change, Environmental Politics
Can local action combat a global issue?
By: Anna McGinn ’14 In her article, “Thinking globally, acting locally—institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa,” Debra Roberts discusses Durban’s recent initiative to develop as well as address climate change. This reading reminded me of our discussion in Washington DC with Dallas Burtraw from Resources for the Future. Both Roberts and Burtraw emphasize that action at a local level is required to adequately mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Climate Change, Environmental Politics, Key COP17 Issues
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