Policy Wise

Via Marginal Revolution, a new US government report on climate change(pdf document) mentions how private insurers are responding to future climate changes.
Major private and federal insurers are both exposed to the effects of climate change over coming decades, but are responding differently. Many large private insurers are incorporating climate change into their annual risk management [...]

Global warming is most certainly the hot button issue of the day. Recently, a U.N panel held that global warming is ‘most likely’ caused by human activities and concluded that it has become ”a runaway train that cannot be stopped.” Unfortunately, as it usually happens in such cases, the debate has become completely politicized and [...]

Pratap Bhanu Mehta asks India to step up and face the global climate change challenge.
The challenge is that all these assumptions need to be attenuated if not abandoned. While developed countries are largely responsible for the problem and have so far sought a cheap and easy way out, India and China together will have [...]

 
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen outlines various options/scenarios vis-a-vis India and China’s fossil-fuel consumption (and consequent contribution to global warming) and possible responses from the US.
1. China and India are less locked into fossil fuels than is the United States, and as Brazil has done they will take the lead in moving [...]