{"id":104784,"date":"2009-12-23T07:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2009\/12\/23\/green-ink-china-sank-the-climate-deal\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T07:58:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T12:58:44","slug":"green-ink-china-sank-the-climate-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/104784","title":{"rendered":"Green Ink: China Sank the Climate Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paper\"Crude oil futures neared $75 a barrel ahead of an expected decline in U.S. oil inventories, Bloomberg reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

China makes another move to ensure energy supplies, signing a deal with Venezuela to help develop offshore oil fields, in the WSJ<\/a>. With Iraqi elections looming, the country has another chance to put its oil wealth at the service of its citizens, writes a former oil minister in the WSJ.<\/a><\/p>\n

Who was really to blame for the meltdown in Copenhagen? China, without a doubt, says Mark Lynas in an insider\u0092s account of how Beijing sabotaged the climate summit,<\/a> in The Guardian: \u0093The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful \u0091deal\u0092 so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame.\u0094 <\/p>\n

In any event, the Copenhagen Accord is coming under increasing fire, with the very developing countries who helped draft it now criticizing the agreement, in the FT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The real lessons from Copenhagen weren\u0092t in the summit, but in Denmark\u0092s ability to chart a new energy course, writes Tom Friedman.<\/a><\/p>\n

If cleaning up the electricity sector is so hard, why not target oil instead<\/a>? By focusing on the transportation sector\u0097and expanding the use of alternative fuels\u0097the rich and poor world alike would benefit, in Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n

Copenhagen didn\u0092t kill the chances of the climate bill in the U.S. Senate\u0097the health-care debate did. That\u0092s the take from both sides of the aisle (except the always optimistic John Kerry) in Politico.<\/a><\/p>\n

The clean-tech sector regroups<\/a> after the disappointment of Copenhagen. Luckily, there are plenty of local, state and national clean-energy policies that could be more important than vague global agreements, in the WSJ.<\/p>\n

And the Copenhagen fiasco amounts to a stay of execution for coal-fired utilities<\/a>, which seem undervalued by the market, in the WSJ.<\/p>\n

Finally, Whole Earth founder Stewart Brand<\/a> talks with Yale\u0092s Environment 360 about the new generation of environmentalists and the allure of nuclear power.<\/p>\n

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Crude oil futures neared $75 a barrel ahead of an expected decline in U.S. oil inventories, Bloomberg reports. China makes another move to ensure energy supplies, signing a deal with Venezuela to help develop offshore oil fields, in the WSJ. With Iraqi elections looming, the country has another chance to put its oil wealth at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}