The Illusion that Climate Policy is Environmental Policy

Timothy Birdnow

This was the quote of the week from the SEPP newsletter:

"...we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore..."

IPCC co-chair of Working Group 3, Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer, November 13, 2010 interview