Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute concludes obstacles to change are political, not technological.
from the Vancouver Observer
"Last Monday, the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute launched their latest report in conjunction with the Centre for Policy Development called Post Carbon Pathways: Towards a Just and Resilient Post Carbon Future.
"What the report aimed to do was to start the conversation about how we get to be a post carbon global economy. The report looked at large scale economic de-carbonization strategies across the globe from governments, think tanks, books published by climate experts, climate NGOs and also interviewed 20 policy makers, climate researchers and climate activists to get their thoughts on the issue.
"From there, they drew three main messages about our post carbon future:
- The probability of reaching 4oC of global average warming is rapidly increasing as noted by several institutions, most recently the World Bank and Christine Lagarde from the IMF.
- We know what needs to be done to decarbonize and how to do it.
- The biggest barriers to a post carbon future are political, not technological. …"
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