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Harald Winkler

Winkler is Associate Professor at the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town and can be contacted at Harald.Winkler@uct.ac.za. He writes in his personal capacity.

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What might rise from the ashes of Copenhagen?

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What the world needed from Copenhagen was a legal treaty on climate. All it got was a political deal among some world leaders. In the last days in Copenhagen, those leaders in the small ‘commitment circle’ agreed to put forward their numbers...

By: Harald Winkler

26 Feb 10

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Going for broke in Copenhagen

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The future of the climate change regime is to be decided in Copenhagen. It is not looking pretty. The US is not ready to put a firm number to the emission cuts it knows it must do. The European Union has proposed a step-up in finance, but still...

By: Harald Winkler

20 Nov 09

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Climate policy by trade war?

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Will climate policy in future be conducted through trade measures? A worrying scenario is that the current approach – negotiating climate change multilaterally, through the United Nations (UN) – could be replaced by domestic action and border...

By: Harald Winkler

23 Oct 09

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Reflections on Green Paper on national strategic planning

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National strategic planning holds huge promise. It could unite many parts of South Africa in moving towards a common national vision of development. Much depends on how it will be implemented. But, in this case, the plan is coming straight from...

By: Harald Winkler

18 Sep 09

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A third of China’s emissions are exported

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Climate negotiations take place between countries. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are calculated by taking into account the GHGs emitted within a country’s borders. Yet, for some countries, substantial shares of their emissions are attributable to the...

By: Harald Winkler

21 Aug 09

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Let’s support solar industry

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The book of Joel counsels us: “Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears – let the weak say, ‘I am strong’”. If South Africa is to ensure that it has a strong energy economy, it may need a similar...

By: Harald Winkler

17 Jul 09

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SA must aspire to a C-lean, job-rich economy

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Our country is facing many challenges – creating jobs for the poor, keeping the lights on, battling climate change and all that in the transition to a new administration and in midst of the global financial crisis. But in every crisis lurks an...

By: Harald Winkler

19 Jun 09

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Ice melting more  rapidly in Antarctica

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The break-up of an ice bridge in Wilkins Sound is most recent in a series of break-ups of ice shelves in Antarctica. The April 4 event reduced the stability of the larger Wilkins ice shelf. This in itself will not contribute to sea level rise,...

By: Harald Winkler

22 May 09

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