…where serious climate protection started. I just read an interview with Hans Joachim Schellnhuber commenting on the Durban results. My own thoughts are as follows: I always felt uneasy about the co-existence of “top-down” instruments like emission trading and “bottom-up” instruments like feed-in-tariffs, because theoretically it is “either or” and not “both”. With regard to the “political roof” on the climate protection process I had similar feelings: it is either a “top-down” binding treaty or it is a “bottom-up” best-effort exercise.
After Durban and after reading the Schellnhuber interview I come to the conclusion that there is still a chance for the “top down”, but there is also a decent chance that the “bottom-up” will produce results, so for the time being it is essential to fight on both fronts.
And maybe we should extend this conclusion into the sphere of the instruments as well and say: we cannot wait until we have water tight emission trading systems and for that reason it is, after all, not “either-or” but “both”?
By the way: the print version of my book on Kosovo is now available in your bookstore.
And yes, I think the result of the referendum on “Stuttgart 21” is a good one.
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