Carbon Emissions

Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game

Nick Mabey | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green


Nick Mabey

The world is close to an ambitious climate change deal; what is missing is the trust needed to reach a legal conclusion. Trust will be built through plain speaking not hints, spin and clever tactics.

Slouching Towards Copenhagen

Carl Pope | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green


Carl Pope

What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen?

Obama's Meeting With India's Prime Minister: Another Chance To Advance Clean Energy

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green


Frances Beinecke

It is estimated that 80 percent of the infrastructure that will exist in India in 2030 has not been built yet. This creates an extraordinary opportunity to build green now rather than retrofitting later.

Global Warming's Impacts Have Sped Up, Worsened Since Kyoto

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated – beyond some of the...

Obama Hobbled By Congress In Fight Against Global Warming

The New York Times | John M. Broder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he ha...

Copenhagen Goals Scaled Back: World Leaders Put Off Climate Change Treaty

TIME | Bryan Walsh Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


Confirming doubts that had been growing for months, the world leaders in attendance at APEC -- along with Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen -...

Finally, Good News on Climate! US Carbon Emissions Drop

Patrick McCully | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green


Patrick McCully

The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.

Cap And Trade: Get The Lowdown

Posted 11.06.2009 | Green


Recent surveys about public perceptions of climate change and knowledge of cap-and-trade in the United States show that a lot of people out there have...

Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green


The push for government action on climate change is like the US civil rights movement, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Both causes depende...

Addressing Global Warming: Can We Adapt? Should We Try?

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

How to confront future rising sea levels, droughts, intense heat waves, and other catastrophes stemming from continued global warming? We can try to mitigate, we can simply suffer, and we can try to adapt.

Meat Politics: The Tofu Vs. Beef War Continues

Mother Nature Network | Karl Burkart | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


A New study claims meat is responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. But let's not forget, soy production is a leading cause of deforestation, ...

Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green


Andrew Winston

The authors of SuperFreakonomics fail to mention that the process of shifting to a low-carbon economy has enormous upsides completely aside from the benefits to climate balance.

Southwest Airlines Markets Green to What End?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green


Jonathan A. Schein

Southwest Airlines just announced that it will present a "green plane" at its annual media day. What does "green plane" mean to the air carrier?

Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green


The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...

Protesters Hold Massive Rallies Against Emissions, Climate Change

New York Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green


Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scali...

Why U.S. Buildings Are Leaking a Mixture of Money and Carbon (& What Congress Can Do About It)

Emma Stewart, Ph.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


Emma Stewart, Ph.D.

Congress is on the right track in setting higher standards for buildings' energy performance. With the right policy mechanisms, we can have far fewer leaks, and a lot more money in our pockets.

Air Travel Made Greener: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


Avital Binshtock

Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.

Eco Etiquette: Is Recycling Bad For The Environment?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


Jennifer Grayson

I have been hearing reports that recycling is bad. That the costs of shipping, mostly the carbon emissions from them, counteract any benefit from recy...

Find Out Which Of The G20 Countries Emits Most

washingtonpost.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green


Explore changes in carbon emissions from fossil fuels for G-20 countries, selected developing nations and others critical to the climate debate....

New Pee Before You Fly Policy Aims To Reduce Carbon Emissions

Mother Nature Network | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green


Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) is determined to lower its carbon emissions any way possible, and that includes an experimental new polic...

Green LEAF, Shocking VOLT -- GM Doesn't Get It, Again

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green


Jonathan A. Schein

The Nissan LEAF is bringing the next generation of low- and zero-emission vehicles to market. The Chevy VOLT still runs on gasoline, and goes less than half the distance of a fully charged LEAF.

UN's Forest Protection Scheme At Risk For Crime And Fraud

The Guardian | John Vidal | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green


Experts on all sides of the debate, from international police to politicians to conservationists, have warned this week that the scheme, called Reduci...

Obama Puts Government On Greenhouse-Gas Diet

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is putting the federal government on a greenhouse-gas diet. In an executive order signed Monday, Obama dire...

A Team of Rivals: The United States and China on Energy

Armond Cohen | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green


Armond Cohen

When it comes to green energy technology development, the United States and China are not just rivals; they are also natural allies and partners, with complementary strengths.

China Accuses U.S. Of Sabotaging Kyoto

guardian.co.uk | John Vidal, Environment Editor in Bangkok | Posted 10.05.2009 | World


The US and other developed countries are attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and all-important international negotiations over i...