Institutional Investor (January 3)
“The most powerful influence on current and future climate mitigation and practice is the sleeping giant: the consumer. When people wake up in the morning frightened that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could detach from the continental shelf and cause an abrupt sea level change and all the geophysical mayhem that could accompany such an event, they might then make purchasing decisions calculated to alter commercial, industrial, municipal, national and international pollution practices and management.”
Tags: Climate mitigation, Commercial, Consumer, Industrial, Influence, Pollution, Purchasing decisions, Sea level change, Sleeping giant, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
New York Times (January 1)
“After 14 years of talks, members of the World Trade Organization have effectively ended the Doha round of negotiations. That was not unexpected given how fruitless these discussions have been. Now, world leaders need to think anew about the global trading system.”
Tags: Doha, Fruitless, Global trading system, World leaders, WTO
The Economist (December 29)
“Make no mistake, fully automated drones—integrated into the next generation of Air Traffic Control—will one day be capable of navigating, communicating and avoiding other craft while flying autonomously in congested airspace. It will not happen this year or next. But a decade hence delivery by drone could well be common place.”
Tags: Air Traffic Control, Avoiding, Communicating, Congested airspace, Delivery, Drones, Fully automated, Navigating
