Tears poured down the faces of young leaders who are having a difficult time understanding how it is that after the election of a visionary president, the US could remain so far from delivering what the world expects on climate change.
Posted 12.14.2009 | Green
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 ...
Matt Osborne | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green
Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the "climategate" nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming.
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...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and ARTHUR MAX | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
BEIJING — President Barack Obama, with China's leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad interim accord at next month's climate ...
BBC | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
The new head of Greenpeace, South African Kumi Naidoo, has told the BBC he will make human life more of a priority for the environmental group. Mr Na...
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...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Is the Copenhagen climate change treaty dead? I'm not willing to say that yet, but it's pretty depressing here at the last pre-negotiation session und...
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green
Fed up with the "glacial" pace of climate negotiations and the unwillingness of the Global North to address their concerns, Indians and environmentalists in South America have come up with a shrewd new way of drawing the world's attention.
Amb. Nancy E. Soderberg | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
The developed world -- responsible for both today's financial as well as climate crisis -- must help pay the costs for the developing world to do the right thing.
The Boston Globe | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
President Obama's vision of global cooperation - symbolized by his surprise Nobel Peace Prize - is in for a crucial test in the months ahead when he b...
Posted 10.23.2009 | Technology
President Barack Obama toured a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he took a tour of some of the cutting ed...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — President Barack Obama said Friday that opponents of his energy bill are disputing the evidence of global warming in a cynica...
James Hoggan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
A diminished role for the U.S. Chamber would brighten the prospects of passing climate and energy policy in the United States and abroad.
guardian.co.uk | John Vidal, Environment Editor | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
Britain has ramped up the pressure on the US and other countries to come up with firm targets and commitments to reduce carbon emissions to ensure a n...
Robert Reich | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
There's no way between now and Copenhagen that Obama can get a strong climate bill through Congress. So here's my suggestion.
Brendan Smith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
We have learned a great deal more about the science of climate change. But we have barely begun to discuss what kind of political change is necessary to do what must be done.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
President Obama delivered a speech to the United Nations today as 100 world leaders gathered for the highest-level summit yet on climate change. Obama...
Mike Nellis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, Sen. Sam Brownback (R) had a bit of a problem while addressing the KS Chamber of Commerce. Turns out, whomever wrote his speech left out a crucial element: the facts!
Al Jazeera English | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
The United States and China have signed an agreement to promote greater co-operation on climate change....
William S. Becker | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
Not all the American people are intelligent enough about climate change to know their intelligence has been insulted. It's a complicated topic made more complicated by bogus arguments.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
So far the only people Obama seems willing to make mad are the activist base of the Democratic party who helped him defeat Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
Margie Alt | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
Is the climate bill so compromised that we who care about clean energy and the fate of the planet should have opposed it? There are three main reasons why, despite its imperfections, we had to support it.
nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined cl...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
In the nearly two decades I have been advocating for climate solutions, I have never witnessed a more urgent moment or stronger leadership.
Jessy Tolkan | Posted 12.16.2009 | Green