John McClaughry: A global renewable energy power play

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.Here’s an interesting insight into the arcane world of global renewable energy politics, based on the Oct. 30 column in Forbes by widely read energy blogger Rod Adams.
Last week the annual Conference of Parties (COP23), the consultative body for the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change, convened in Bonn, Germany. For the past eight years a business-oriented Sustaina