The per capita parliament

by | Oct 17, 2007 | Climate and resource scarcity, Europe and Central Asia

According to today’s FT, the EU parliament is to endorse per capita shares of carbon emissions:

The European parliament is expected on Monday to endorse a plan to allocate carbon permits on a per capita basis after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012.

The plan would allow global trading of emissions rights along the lines of the internal cap and trade scheme established by the EU in 2005. The Kyoto protocol excluded developing countries and Vittorio Prodi, an MEP, says global trading would give them an incentive to join a successor.

“This is an idea that would get developing and developed countries involved. It would be very good for Africa, which would receive a sum bigger than their development aid [by selling permits],” Mr Prodi told the FT

Quote of the day/week/month

by | Oct 17, 2007 | Influence and networks

Bruno Latour:

“Science is certainty; research is uncertainty. Science is supposed to be cold, straight and detached; research is warm, involving and risky. Science puts an end to the vagaries of human disputes; research creates controversies. Science produces objectivity by escaping as much as possible from the shackles of ideology, passions, and emotions; research feeds on all of those to render objects of enquiry familiar.”

From the world of science to the world of research? Science 1998, 280, 208-9