Environment policy statements
This position statement looks at the emerging technology of capture.
The commonly accepted waste hierarchy is not working. We need to radically rethink our waste policy and adopt a waste as a resource framework.
Climate change is a very real threat that requires a more sophisticated policy response. Geo-engineering is an emerging approach to the challenge of climate change that has the potential to form a third branch of our response, alongside mitigation and adaptation.
Less than 10% of the materials we mine or grow end up in the products we buy. As our natural resources diminish, simply doing less harm or causing less waste will no longer suffice. Is industrial ecology the answer?
Climate change is happening. This statement looks into the need to plan our adaptation to the effects of climate change both domestically and internationally.
The world’s nations failed to reach a legally binding post-Kyoto global agreement on climate change, but formulated a political agreement: the Copenhagen Accord.