Climate Mitigation

Will Climate Change Chill Obama's Legacy?

William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Obama G-20, Environmental Policy, Economy, Big Coal, Obama, Immigration, Subsidies, Legacy, Climate Impacts, Green Energy, Bully Pulpit, Coal, Energy Policy, Fcc, Big Oil, Climate Science, Environment, Oil Prices, Economic Recovery, Pcap, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Global Warming, Green News
William S. Becker

Obama is the leader most likely to be blamed 20 or 30 years from now when people around the world are suffering from intense, diverse and irreversible stresses from climate change.

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Nature, Culture and Climate Change

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Resilience, National Geographic, United Nations, Sustainability, Traditional Knowledge, International Year of Biodiversity, Luisa Maffi, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, David Braun, NatGeo News Watch, Nature, Culture, Climate Adaptation, Terralingua, 2010 Biocultural Diversity, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

On December 20, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. Three reasons for the declaration are listed on the official U.N. Convention on Biodiversity website.

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New Dr. Strangeloves and the Prospect of Geo-Engineered Climate "Adaptation"

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Global Energy Assessment Council, Copenhagen 2009, Africa, President Emanuel Mori, 350.Org, Bill Mckibben, Grace Akumu, Royal Dutch Shell, Tallberg Forum, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Ged Davis, Dr. Strangelove, Scenario Planning, Our Common Future, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Mario Tokoro, Tallberg Foundation, Kenya, Chief Oren Lyons, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

This year's Tallberg Forum asked: "How on earth can we live together, within the planetary boundaries?" Some scientists and energy policymakers posed a different question that made my hairs stand on end.

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