Earth to Bali

To: Retort
Via: TP

[Tad Patzek, the only UC Berkeley energy scientist to speak up for the second law of thermodynamics in the unfolding UC-BP agrofuels fiasco, is a signatory to the 'Bali Call', formally entitled A Call for Climate Talks to Accelerate Global Economic and Energy Transitions:  What Bali Must Achieve (pdf attached). IB]

The Bali Call urges: 

1. Deeper Emissions Cuts, With Equity
The Call supports the goal of creating deeper binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum average of at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, while ensuring that richer nations, and the richer segments within all nations, bear the greatest burden of adjustment.

2. Profound Economic and Energy Transitions
Governments need to create new rules, incentives, and institutions to shift our villages, cities, countries, and world toward socially just and ecologically sound economies.

3. New Global Institutions
Governments should create new global mechanisms that help nations keep fossil fuels in the ground, finance North-South resource transfers, cut back oil production and consumption, advance rights to clean water, and protect forests, fisheries, biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and endangered species.

Attachment: Bali climate change2.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document