David Victor On Communication Issues Among Climate Scientists
A Climate Analyst Analyzes His Own Approach to CO2
09/27/2011
Andrew C. Revkin,
The New York Times, Dot Earth Blog
Robert Socolow of Princeton University has written “Wedges Reaffirmed,” an essay published today by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Climate Central. The piece examines lessons he’s learned since he and a colleague, Stephen Pacala, co-authored “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies” in 2004. The influential paper, published in Science, divided the challenge of keeping emissions of greenhouse gases through mid-century at levels prevailing in the 2000s into seven “wedges” of carbon dioxide reductions — through switching to renewable and nuclear power, ramping up energy efficiency, ending deforestation and taking action in other areas. (The new essay adds two wedges because the scope of the challenge has grown in the last seven years.)
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David Victor is Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
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