Whereas the international community has no international climate police, the United States government can and does impose fines and even criminal penalties on polluters that disobey domestic environmental laws.
"In most cases, what we want is a package of policies – the climate polices themselves and additional policies to smooth the transition and to support poor people in the transition," said Hallegatte.
To help with that decision, in recent days the Climate Institute, WWF, the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australian Marine Conservation Society have all published assessments of the key parties on their environment and climate polices.
Such global warming, he predicts, might require the creation of an international climate body with "policing powers" — an undertaking, he adds, heartbreakingly, that should be "as nonpolitical as possible".
It is the climate of policing, then, that signals other kinds of inequities in the academic machine.
And in a victory for citizen journalism, our favourite DIY reporter Michael Traill uncovered the cost of policing the Climate Camp RBS protests.
PARIS — Leaders of 43 nations with nearly 800 million inhabitants inaugurated a "Union for the Mediterranean" on Sunday, meant to bring the northern and southern countries that ring the sea closer together through practical projects dealing with the environment, climate, transportation, immigration and policing.
Most police officers, even in jurisdictions with a climate of police-citizen tension, do their job professionally and without incident.
Law enforcement officials have repeatedly expressed concerns that protests against police brutality and misconduct create a dangerous climate for police officers.
"If you look at the way we policed Climate Camp in August, look at the way we policed many, many other events, we have recognised the proposals [made by O'Connor] and have embedded them into what we are doing".
