North Bay Business Journal

Copenhagen Consensus: Big emissions schemes won’t help world’s poor

Brad BollingerAs the world’s leaders — including seven from Sonoma County — prepare to descend on Copenhagen for a climate change summit next month, they should keep in mind that spending trillions on emissions-reducing schemes is likely to be very bad for the planet’s poorest and most vulnerable people. … It’s hard to believe any city today at a time of 10 percent unemployment would put roadblocks in the path of a project that would create more than 700 jobs and generate desperately needed municipal tax revenue. Petaluma has seemed poised to do just that with a new retail center proposed for the abandoned Kenilworth site. But as of Tuesday, one of the opposition’s central cries — that the center would be made up of national chain big boxes – was demolished.