Friday, December 3, 2010

Our Orwellian Nightmare: Coal's Low Carbon Pitch

by Mary Anne Hitt

This week, I'm happy to introduce Justin Guay of the Sierra Club's International Climate Program, who is in Cancun at the international climate negotiations, and who draws our attention in this post to a little-known problem that could spur coal development around the world:

In Cancun all eyes are on climate finance and the role it will play in delivering progress on the international stage. Yet lurking beneath the surface lies a fatal incoherency in energy sector lending that has enabled coal to pass itself off as a low carbon option for developing countries.



continued at Daily Kos....