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Ban Ki-moon summit set to decide fate of Green Climate Fund

Various alternative sources including using money from aviation’s inclusion in the EU emissions trading scheme, a tax on OPEC oil exports and using funds for fossil fuel subsidies have been suggested.

Observers in Paris noted “a lot of unpleasant politics” at stages, with Saudi Arabia in particular blamed for opposing innovative sources, perhaps fearing it will hit the country’s oil revenues.

Britain’s Energy Crisis: Investors Abandoning Sinking Ship | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The political risk facing all players in the UK power market has increased substantially. Investors are now reacting by selling out of the entire UK gas and electricity sector.

Is the world getting better or worse? - opinion - 14 October 2013 - New Scientist

[Lomborg] We can settle the debate on global challenges such as climate change with an objective scorecard, says a sceptical environmentalist