Think Globally, Act Locally

by Anne-Franziska Sinner

The last blog entry talked about the UN Climate Change conference in Cancun and the actual limitations of international policy negotiations. The main conclusion of Todd Jones, the author, was that the high-level policy negotiations are unlikely to yield the results needed to address climate change. Any international agreement, he wrote, would be based on assumptions far from reality, “a plane separated from any real time or place”.   I basically agree but just wonder, besides global policy agreements, what other means are there to trigger local action? How can we initiate local activities and initiatives to actually address climate change? How can people be motivated to reduce their footprint? And is there reasoning behind people’s “do-nothing” attitude, other than convenience?   Read more at http://blog.resource-solutions.org/?p=275    

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