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Dec 6, 2009, 2:26 pm
Following is a press release issued by the UNFCC in anticipation of the COP15 climate change conference that begins tomorrow, Monday, December 7. I am en route to the conference now and will be onsite... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 10:01 pm
"If only developing countries would take action to reduce their global warming pollution".
That is the refrain that was heard in capitals around the world for years. This was driven partly by a co... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 4:36 pm
A reliable source has just said the White House plans to release a statement that president Obama will delay his visit to the COP15 climate conference from the first week to the last scheduled day of ... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 9:29 am
One of the six key elements of the international agreement is: strong leadership from developed countries with firm and aggressive emissions reductions targets in the near-term (e.g., 2020 and 2030) a... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2009, 5:01 pm
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced yesterday the release of the Climate Adaptation Strategy (CAS). Sitting at the center of San Francisco Bay, Schwarzenegger used the symbolism of ... Comment - Like
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Dec 2, 2009, 4:50 am
As we are quickly approaching the final stretch before the Copenhagen climate negotiations (less than a week to go before it begins), I thought I would try to give a quick summary of where the past 2 ... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 5:28 pm
Or why you can’t solve a problem with the thinking that created it
Last week we posted the teaser for The Story of Cap and Trade, the new video hosted by Annie Leonard, the creator of the viral hit... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 6:37 pm
A new direction for the US Forest Service
In a memo (pdf) sent on November 20, US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell told his regional offices and station directors that "responding to the challenges o... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 2:36 pm
On the heels of president Obama's announcement earlier this week that he will attend the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen and propose firm (if inadequate) emissions targets, Chinese official... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 1:02 am
Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it changes from solid to liquid. It just me... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2009, 4:41 pm
As promised, Republican members of the Senate Energy and Public works committee failed to show up at the mark-up session for the Kerry-Boxer climate and energy bill convened by chairperson Senator Bar... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2009, 5:05 pm
In an ominous sign of the likelihood of a comprehensive climate agreement being reached when world leaders meet next month for the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen, leaders of about fifty African na... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 1:34 pm
Characterizing the final five-day negotiating round in Barcelona as "not a spectacular session, but… an important one," UNFCCC Yvo de Boer told reporters that the "time is up," in achieving the ... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 12:01 pm
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Dear EarthTalk: Celebrities and billionaires are shelling out big bucks for... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 4:38 pm
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer speaks on the challenge and hope as the last five days of negotiations commence in Barcelona, Spain next week ahead of the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen thi... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2009, 5:06 pm
Guest post by Kriss Bergethon
Rapid changes in the solar power sector are fueling a green energy revolution. With so much emphasis on solving the global warming puzzle, technology in solar is advan... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 6:11 pm
Major differences begin to emerge between the Senate and House versions of cap-and-trade legislation. Due to more stringent budget requirements – known as the "CBO haircut" – in the Sena... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 5:18 pm
Green marketing has never been more popular, but not all green claims are created equal. Businesses are increasingly cognizant of the value of socially and ethically conscious consumers. Between 2007 ... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2009, 6:21 pm
Ira Magaziner, chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative, on the need to "reach the future faster" through successful capitalism and a clean energy revolution, and steps the CCI is taking to accompli... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2009, 4:07 pm
A report just released by the United Nations Environment Programme incorporating the latest peer-reviewed science indicates that climate change is already outpacing projections from the 2007 assessmen... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 2:16 pm
It was Kevin Conrad from the tiny tropical nation of Papua New Guinea who, at the climate negotiations in Bali in 2007, stood before the goliath United States and said "either lead or get out of the w... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2009, 6:53 pm
California Utility Pacific Gas & Electric announced yesterday that it would leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its "extreme" position on climate change. Last month the Chamber proposed that a "tr... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2009, 6:32 pm
SUMMARY BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL 22 September 2009
Climate change is a defining challenge of our time. Today’s Summit signals the determination of world leaders to address this challenge and reach a... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 8:07 pm
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled yesterday reinstating the lawsuit Connecticut v. American Electric Power (pdf). The suit will require that the five largest emitting power utilities ... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 6:17 pm
Chris Swain loves to swim. He'll tell you he isn't necessarily a great swimmer, certainly not the best. But that's a distinction better left to others, as I am happiest strolling alongside... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2009, 2:59 pm
Today begins a week dubbed "climate week" because of all the high-level climate discussions that are occurring. And they just all happen to be occurring in the US at an important time for the US do... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2009, 4:53 pm
I've been getting a lot of searches and hits lately for an EarthTalk™ column we published last June about the relation between sun spots and the current observed rise in global ocean and atmosph... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2009, 6:15 pm
On Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency sent a draft ruling to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposing that regulations on greenhouse gas emissions apply only to large i... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2009, 6:20 pm
Tue, 1 Sep 2009
Richard Matthews? ??The Growth of Responsible Business
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby organizations acknowledge their impact by monitoring their activities ... Comment - Like
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Sep 1, 2009, 7:52 pm
Expectations are running high and anticipation grows with now less than 100 days left before the start of the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen this December.
To help galvanize the political wil... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2009, 8:55 am
No other region in United States is experiencing the consequences of climate change more than in Alaska and the Arctic. Native Alaskans lead a life closely connected to the land, the sea, and the sky.... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2009, 2:33 pm
Characterizing it as the "Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a "trial" on climate change science –... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2009, 7:48 am
... and vexing problems, the 2nd World Agroforestry Congress opened at the UN Complex in Nairobi, Kenya August 24.
Industrialized world governments are throwing billions of taxpayer and debt ... ; ... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2009, 10:30 am
Since they soak up as much as one quarter of all carbon annually emitted by humans the world's oceans are often characterized as a carbon "sponge."
But the changing climate may be altering the oc... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2009, 7:34 am
Bad policy has turned what could be a win-win situation–the development of renewable, CO2-neutral biofuels–into a losing proposition environmentally, socially and economically, according t... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2009, 9:49 am
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