{"id":104787,"date":"2009-12-22T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2009\/12\/22\/green-ink-opec-holds-course-and-more-on-copenhagen\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:22:40","slug":"green-ink-opec-holds-course-and-more-on-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/104787","title":{"rendered":"Green Ink: OPEC Holds Course, and More on Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paper\"Crude oil futures slipped toward $73<\/a> a barrel after OPEC, as expected, maintained current oil-production levels. Of course, that should mean a cut\u0097the cartel really wants members to start complying<\/a> with their output quotas, both in the WSJ.<\/p>\n

The blame game for Copenhagen gets started in earnest\u0097and it ain\u0092t China\u0092s fault. George Monbiot<\/a> goes off the reservation and slams Barack Obama, invokes Iraq war lessons, and hears the orchestra on the Titanic. Naomi Klein<\/a> gets in the same groove: \u0093There are very few US presidents who have squandered as many once-in-a-generation opportunities as Obama,\u0094 both in The Guardian.<\/p>\n

More Copenhagen post-mortems: Eric Pooley<\/a> explains why rush-hour climate diplomacy didn\u0092t work in Copenhagen (\u0093Imagine that a Department of Motor Vehicles office joined forces with an Alitalia ticket counter and set out to save the world\u0094) and won\u0092t work in Washington, in Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, the United Nations says it agrees the current process for tackling climate change needs a reform, in the FT.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave Roberts<\/a> at Grist sets out to untangle the mess that Copenhagen\u0092s left behind. <\/p>\n

And former Thatcher minister Nigel Lawson has a Plan B<\/a> to save the world: Spend money on adapting to climate change and a bit of R&D, in the WSJ.<\/p>\n

Finally, the clean-energy battle is really shaping up in the Mojave Desert. Plans to preserve the desert from development have some greens seeing red, in the WSJ<\/a>. Either way, just the specter of legislation has already stunted clean-energy prospects there, which will make it a lot tougher for California to meet its renewable-energy targets, in the NYT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Crude oil futures slipped toward $73 a barrel after OPEC, as expected, maintained current oil-production levels. Of course, that should mean a cut\u0097the cartel really wants members to start complying with their output quotas, both in the WSJ. The blame game for Copenhagen gets started in earnest\u0097and it ain\u0092t China\u0092s fault. George Monbiot goes off […]<\/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-104787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104787","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=104787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}