Arctic Oil’s Place at the Climate-Change Table

September 9, 2015 Topic: Politics Region: arctic Tags: OilAlaskaClimate Change

Arctic Oil’s Place at the Climate-Change Table

"In order for policy makers to make the smartest decisions on the role of oil in making the leap from today to tomorrow in this incredibly fragile ecosystem, they need access to all pertinent information..."

But in order to truly address climate-change mitigation and adaptation on top of the world, President Obama must demand those causing it to be part of building its solution.

Deborah Gordon is director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Victoria Herrmann is U.S. director of the Arctic Institute.