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VOL II, Issue 25, December 16, 2015 New Mexico’s best alternative newspaper Govt. Openness Under Siege PAGE 6 Beware Of Petty Tyrants PAGE 13 Joe Monahan’s Christmas List (Wow!) Get to P AGE 7 Know Mary & Tito’s PAGE 23 Party Hard, Drink Smart(er) on New Year’s Eve PAGES 20-21 2 • December 16, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS nEwS EditoR’S A&E PickS ABQ FREE PRESS • December 16, 2015 • 3 Paris Talks More About Business than Climate A&E: Three to See BY DAVID CORREIA “The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio V. Gonzales” ARIS – The United Nations Framework Con- the world gave stirring speeches marking the start All are out in Paris.” Instead the agreement uses eu- Albuquerque Museum of Art and History [Page 25] Pvention on Climate Change held its twenty-first of COP21 in a cavernous airplane hangar nearby, phemisms such as “international credited mitigation Dec. 9–April 6 annual meeting on climate change from Nov. 30-Dec. Gates was telling Amanpour that climate change was outcome mechanism.” She explained, “That’s how we 11 north of Paris in Le Bourget, France. The meeting a good business opportunity. He planned to recruit refer to markets in Paris.” was highly anticipated as perhaps the first real oppor- other billionaires, he said, in order to create a massive The predictions of economists and business leaders tunity for a binding global limit on greenhouse gas climate fund that would bankroll the climate mitiga- during the first week were reflected in the agreement emissions since the 1997 meetings in Kyoto, Japan. tion schemes he anticipated the talks would produce. hammered out during the second. The draft agree- The proposed solution to climate change in Kyoto I walked over to the “We Mean Business” kiosk ment at the time this paper went to press relies entire- relied largely on the market to reduce emissions. Cap at the center of conference facility to talk to Dirk ly on a market-based approach to climate mitigation. and trade, as it became known, permits companies to Forrester, the executive director of the International Through seemingly innocuous phrases like “regional University of Oklahoma Press Kadomatsu workshops buy and sell the right to pollute. If one firm reduces Emissions Trading Association, a trade group that economic integration” and “internationally trans- its emissions below a specific cap, it can sell the dif- represents emissions trading firms and investors. I ABQ BioPark [Page 30] ferred mitigation outcomes,” the agreement expands Dec. 19–Jan. 17 ference between what it emits and what it’s allowed told him I’d just seen Bill Gates. “The thing that CEOs the failed policies of Kyoto. to emit. Signatories believed that the Kyoto protocols value get paid attention to,” he said. Ironically, the only mention of “non market mecha- provided a market incentive to reduce emissions and Later, at a news conference of business leaders, one nisms,” an approach one economist called “the Boliv- penalized those who could not. corporate consultant complained that the agreement ian view of the world” comes in “Article 3 ter” of the It hasn’t worked. Climate scientists consider any lacked the kind of market language that once domi- agreement, which is the section that actually creates carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere above 350 nated agreements coming out of the United Nations. Wikimedia Commons the standards for a global trade in carbon credits. parts per million dangerous. Since Kyoto and cap and But at a meeting later in the day on carbon trading, I met more economists and business consultants “The Amazing Nina Simone” trade, levels have spiked from around 360 parts per Andrei Marcu, a business consultant from the Center The Guild Cinema [Page 27] million to over 400 ppm today. for European Policy Studies, explained that negotia- than climate scientists. As Lars Zetterberg, the director for business development for the Swedish Dec. 20–23, 6 p.m. So I went to Paris as an official observer of the talks tors have learned they need to “hide market language Re-Emerging Films to find out what might be different about Paris than in the agreement.” What was “carbon credits” is now Environmental Research Institute, explained to me, every other negotiation. “mitigation outcome.” Every economist and industry they were in Paris because “the agreement will finally As I walked into the official observers’ area of the representative I talked to mentioned this shift in establish the conditions for an international market in conference center on my first day there, I nearly language. Paris was different only in how it talked carbon to emerge.” crashed into Bill Gates as he stood on a plywood plat- about the market. That will be the legacy of Paris. It was a business Fiat Lux form placed squarely in the middle of the conference Christina Hood, a climate policy consultant with convention not a climate convention. BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO center. He was staring into a camera talking to the the International Energy Agency, told a room full voice of CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. of climate finance consultants, “we can’t use words David Correia is an associate professor of American While more than 140 elected leaders from all over anymore like ‘credits,’ or ‘markets,’ or ‘accounting.’ Studies at the University of New Mexico. Jared Tarbell via Flickr When I moved here, I was unaware of the active luminaria tradition in New Mexico. Nowadays, I call the Ridgecrest neighborhood home, and I still venture out every year to stroll down Ridgecrest Avenue for one of the finest luminaria displays in town. The City of Albuquerque website recommends Ridgecrest, which runs diagonally from Carlisle SE to San Mateo SE; the Country Club Neigh- borhood near Tingley Beach; Old Town, especially near the Plaza; and Los Alamos Civic, which is north of Bridge SW and east of Old Coors SW. This lovely tradition brings light and community to our city. Check out the holiday handiwork of your neighbors or construct your own with paper bags, sand and tea lights. For more info, visit cabq.gov. Thursday, Dec. 24, after dark Various locations in Albuquerque ON THE COVER: Cartoonist Gary Glasgow offers his take on World War II’s iconic “Rosie the Riveter” in recognition of the Pentagon’s decision this month to allow women to fill all combat roles. The decision is not without controversy, however. A Rand Corp. survey of 7,600 special forces operators found nearly all believe women will weaken unit effectiveness and drive men from those positions. 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