Copenhagen Now; Inhofe Is The Fourth Horsemen
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.
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.
Jessy Tolkan | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
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.
Bill Chameides | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green
So far from being a failure, the Kyoto Protocol looks like it will meet its very limited goals.
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...
Ken Cloke | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green
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.
Reuters | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green
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...
Lance Simmens | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
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.
David Sassoon | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green
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.
Ben Carmichael | Posted 05.15.2009 | Green
We need a strong economy to make the right investments in renewable energy technologies to make them affordable, scalable and publicly acceptable.
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). ...
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
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.
Marcos Sawaya Jank | Posted 04.14.2009 | Green
Meaningful reductions of greenhouse gases require more than just political goodwill. It requires leadership.
Jerry Cope | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
That an agreement to reduce CO2 concentration levels must be reached is critical to the survival of human civilization as we know it.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 02.25.2009 | Home
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.
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica — Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific e...
Deborah Seligsohn | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green
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.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green
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.
AFP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
She set a conciliatory tone after eight years of president George W. Bush's administration, who minimized the threat from global warming and rejected ...
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
DAVOS, Switzerland — Don't put off action on global warming just because times are lean _ that's the message Al Gore, world environmental leader...
Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
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.
Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
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.
New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green
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 ...
Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Matthew Owen | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green
While the countries talk the talk, the deteriorating earth and environment get neglected.
Michael Levi | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green
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.
Jerry Cope | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green