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Climate Policy and Sustainability Management

Steven Cohen | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Environmental Policy, Copenhagen 2009, Technology Development, Economic Development, Kyoto Protocol, Renewable Energy, Globalization, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Management, Biosphere, Green News

The idea that the nations of the world would cede sovereignty over their economies to permit a global greenhouse gas cap-and-trade policy was misguided fantasy that is hopefully now laid to rest. So how do we move forward?

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Climategate Is a Smokescreen

Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 12.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Global Warming, Global Warming Hoax, Global Warming Deniers, Junk Science, Al Gore, Americans for Prosperity, Kyoto Protocol, Christopher Monckton, Climategate, cop15, Copenhagen, Lancet, Green News

Amidst the stolen email hoopla, one thing remains resoundingly clear: the manufactured scandal is part of a decades-long effort by special interests to discredit the work of climate scientists.

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Ending the "Hopenhagen" Dream

Jasmeet Sidhu | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, cop15, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Hopenhagen, Climate Change Negotiations, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

It's halfway through the conference, negotiations have barely moved an inch, and climate advocates are enraged at the lack of progress. How and why did we lose the dream of Hopenhagen?

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How to Make the Fate of the Planet Boring

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 12.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News

If energy and climate change are the great challenges facing the human race, why are leaders who should be telling us what our options are talking like a bunch of bean counters?

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The Importance of Copenhagen and EPA's Endangerment Finding

Bruce Nilles | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Environment, Copenhagen 2009, Coal, cop15, Sierra Club, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

adding a great push to our efforts in Copenhagen is the announcement from the EPA earlier this week: that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a danger to public health.

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All Or Nothing: A Look At The Copenhagen Endgame

Posted 12.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Copenhagen, UN Climate Talks, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, UN Climate Change, Copenhagen, cop15, Un Climate Change Conference, Yvo De Boer, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

By Geoffrey Lean, from Grist.org: Well, here we are at last. After two years of largely fruitless negotiations, the real bargaining on the terms of ...

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Copenhagen Explained: A Game Of Double Jeopardy

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Climate-Pact, Treaties, Copenhagen 2009, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

This Is A Special From Mother Jones, Written By David Corn. At the Copenhagen summit, there isn't a negotiating process to reach a climate pact. Ther...

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Why President Obama's Copenhagen Efforts Matter

Michael Meehan | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

The US capitalizes on markets, and COP15 is a moment where it must seize the opportunity with climate change. But COP15 also represents an economic risk if we don't act because there are serious contenders abroad.

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Todd Stern Says No Treaty at Copenhagen

Mike Smith | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Todd Stern Climate Change Envoy, China Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, U.S. Special Envoy, Todd-Stern, Climate Change, Kyoto Treaty, Tuvalu, Ghg, Politics News

Special U.S. Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern yesterday arrived at the United Nations Foundation meeting on Climate Change, a big jet-lagged, and we...

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A Tree Grows in Copenhagen

Ellen Snortland | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Bill Liao, cop15, Neo.org, Kyoto Protocol, WeForest.Com, Climate Change, Un, G77, Green News

Part of being a first timer at the UN COP15 Climate Change conference is learning the ropes. Bill Liao is doing just that, and checks in with a report on all he's learned from Copenhagen.

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End the Politics -- Let Scientists and Engineers Lead

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Kyoto Protocol, The Future, Green News

Here we are, 17 years after the signing of the UN framework convention on climate change, a year after Obama's election, and days away from Copenhagen, still without a global strategy to avoid a climate catastrophe.

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Cap And Trade Should Go The Way Of The DoDo Before We Do

Daphne Wysham | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Trading, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Credits, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Green News

Carbon offsets are attractive to polluters because they're cheaper than cuts. But they'll open up a new market in carbon, open to gaming, corruption, and the creation of a "carbon bubble."

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Climate Change: Too Much At Stake

Jim Selman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Desertification, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Dioxide, An Inconvenient Truth, Recycling, Clearcutting, Climate Treaty, Acid Rain, Famine, Extinction, Kyoto Protocol, Sustainable Future, Environment, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Al Gore, David Suzuki, Global Warming, Living News

To the extent that we speak from our hearts about the world we want to create, we will attract energy, resources and support--and inspire others to act.

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Copenhagen Now; Inhofe Is The Fourth Horsemen

Jerry Cope | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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