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Kyoto Protocol

Copenhagen Now; Inhofe Is The Fourth Horsemen

Jerry Cope | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: James Inhofe, cop15, Kyoto Protocol, Obama Copenhagen, Obama Administration, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Four-Horsemen-of-the-Apocalypse, Green News
Jerry Cope

President Obama must do more than merely acknowledge the science; his administration must ensure that a legally binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions is reached in Copenhagen.

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Young Americans Won't Let Obama Waste Copenhagen Opportunity

Jessy Tolkan | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Action Coalition, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change, Green Energy, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Barack Obama, Green News
Jessy Tolkan

Watching President Obama take questions from students in Shanghai, I couldn't help but feel disappointed that he has yet to engage with young Americans in the youth climate movement.

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Did the Kyoto Protocol Miss the Target?

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unfccc, cop15, Climate Talks, Global Climate Treaty, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

So far from being a failure, the Kyoto Protocol looks like it will meet its very limited goals.

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China Accuses U.S. Of Sabotaging Kyoto

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

Read More: Carbon Emissions, US Kyoto, Careers, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon-Dioxide-Emissions, China Kyoto, Kyoto, Green Energy, Carbon Footprint, China Pollution, 2012 Kyoto Expiration, Kyoto Protocol, China, Kyoto Agreement, Kyoto Treaty, World News

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

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The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference: What You Can Do

Ken Cloke | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, United-Nations-Framework-Convention-on-Climate-Change, Denmark, Kyoto Protocol, Unfccc, Green News
Ken Cloke

A discussion of conflict prevention and resolution mechanisms is missing from the Conference of Parties taking place in December, where a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol may be signed.

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New Climate Strategy: Track The World's Wealthiest

Reuters | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Strategy, Kyoto Protocol, Target World's Wealthiest, Green News

To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people...

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From Nashville to Copenhagen

Lance Simmens | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Waxman-Markey, Oil Industry, Obama Change, Al Gore Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Green News
Lance Simmens

It is all too easy to fall into the trap of reciting dire and dour statistics to illuminate just how serious this crisis is. It is far more difficult to illustrate the interconnectivity of issues and events.

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The Climate Bill's Giant Carbon Polluter Loophole

David Sassoon | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Waxman-Markey, International Rivers, Offsets, Carbon Emissions, Kyoto Protocol, Aces, Climate Bill, Green News
David Sassoon

Allowing polluting companies to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere by paying others to reduce emission is a practice analagous to trying to lose weight by paying someone else to go on a diet.

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A Bad Economy Makes For A Bad Environment

Ben Carmichael | Posted 05.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Economy, George W. Bush, Kyoto Protocol, Economic Crisis, Environment, New York Times, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Green Living, United Kingdom, Copenhagen, Green News
Ben Carmichael

We need a strong economy to make the right investments in renewable energy technologies to make them affordable, scalable and publicly acceptable.

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The Waxman-Markey Green Jobs Bill Isn't Perfect, But it Is Absolutely Necessary

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: House of Representatives, Ed Markey, Cap and Trade, Renewable Energy, Global-Warming, Renewable Electricity Standard, Politics, Climate-Change, Clean Energy, Congress, Henry Waxman, Green, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Speaker Pelosi, Kyoto Protocol, Nancy Pelosi, Energy, Green Collar Jobs, Green Jobs, Green News
Josh Nelson

Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey Tuesday at long last made public a discussion draft of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). ...

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The USA: A Good World Citizen?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Nato, Rights of Children, Conservatives, Land Mine Treaty, International Criminal Court, Law of the Sea Treaty, Global Women's Rights Treaty, Kyoto Protocol, Nicholas Sarkozy, World News
Patrick Takahashi

Popularity is tertiary to being right and humane, and now you should have a better inkling as to why we have not been really popular around the world.

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Brazil and the US Should Lead on Climate Change

Marcos Sawaya Jank | Posted 04.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Brazil, Kyoto Protocol, Green News
Marcos Sawaya Jank

Meaningful reductions of greenhouse gases require more than just political goodwill. It requires leadership.

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Outsourcing Emissions: Assigning Responsibility & COP15

Jerry Cope | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Cap and Trade, China Emissions, Ipcc, Copenhagen 2009, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, cop15, Susan Solomon, Noaa, Green News
Jerry Cope

That an agreement to reduce CO2 concentration levels must be reached is critical to the survival of human civilization as we know it.

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One-Third of China's CO2 Emissions Made by the West

Alex Pasternack | Posted 02.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Co2, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Trade, China, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Kyoto Protocol, Home News
Alex Pasternack

In recent years, consumers in the US huffed over the dangers of Chinese-made goods to kids in the US. Now they and their governments might start thinking harder about what those goods are doing to kids in China.

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World Environment Ministers Mix Science And Politics In Antarctica

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Antarctica, Climate Change, Green Politics, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen 2009, Green News

TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica — Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific e...

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Note to Secretary Clinton: China is Measuring its Way to Progress on Climate Change

Deborah Seligsohn | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, China, Kyoto Protocol, Green News
Deborah Seligsohn

If the world is to agree on a global climate treaty by December in Copenhagen, it is essential that China and the U.S. both be at the forefront of the negotiations.

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Can Hillary Forge a Climate Treaty With China?

Alex Pasternack | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, China, Kyoto Protocol, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Green News
Alex Pasternack

As Clinton heads to China with the beginning of a climate agenda in tow, many are wondering how the world's biggest environmental stalemate can become its biggest opportunity.

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Clinton: "I Will Press The Case For Clean Energy"

AFP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, China, Green Politics, Green News

She set a conciliatory tone after eight years of president George W. Bush's administration, who minimized the threat from global warming and rejected ...

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Gore Praises "Magnitude Of Change In U.S. Leadership" At Davos

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Davos, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen 2009, Environment, Copenhagen Treaty, Pollution, Davos 2009, Green Politics, Barack Obama, Green News

DAVOS, Switzerland — Don't put off action on global warming just because times are lean _ that's the message Al Gore, world environmental leader...

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Yes, We Can Regulate CO2!

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Oil and Gas, George Bush, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Yes We Can, Carbon Dioxide, Obama, Co2, Transportration Secretary Roy LaHood, Bush-Era, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Industry, Transportation Department, Takepart, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Environment, Green News
Sarah Newman

Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Obama's Team Has Fought Each Other On Environment Since 1997

New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carol Browner, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Emission, Obama Environment, Environment, Larry Summers, Obama's Cabinet, Barack Obama, Green News

Mr. Summers, then the deputy Treasury secretary, said at the time that there was a compelling scientific case for action on global warming but that a ...

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Bush/Cheney: Dinosaurs of the Old Economy

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Afganistan, U.S. Economy, Former President Bill Clinton, Bail Out, Acid Rain, Big Oil, Economy, Vice President Dick Cheney, Kyoto Protocol, Mortgage Crisis, Former Vice President Al Gore, Credit Crisis, Iraq, President George W. Bush, China, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

The legacy of Bush and Cheney are inextricably tied to the survival of the old fossil fuel economy. Their assignment was clear: defend and protect at ...

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Talking About Talking

Matthew Owen | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Kyoto Protocol, Environment, Poznan, Copenhagen 2009, Green News
Matthew Owen

While the countries talk the talk, the deteriorating earth and environment get neglected.

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How to Make a Climate Deal

Michael Levi | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Obama Environment, UN Climage Change Conference, Obama Issues, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Kyoto Protocol, Green News
Michael Levi

We called on the President to leverage ambitious action at home to advance a broad foreign policy agenda, including a five-point strategy for UN climate negotiations.

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