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Can the Durban Climate Negotiations Succeed?

Robert Stavins | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Law, Australia, Environmental Policy, Durban, Environmental Economics, Cost-Effectiveness, Climate Change Policy, United Nations, Cop-15, Regulation, Obama Administration, Cop-16, Poznan, Global Climate Policy, Major Economies Forum, South Africa, Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems, Environmental Politics, Cap-and-Trade, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord, Korea, Cop-17, Bali, Baseball, Cancun, Politics, New Zealand, Copenhagen, European Union, G-20, Japan, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Unfccc, Positive Political Economy | Tagged Annex I, India, Green News

Two weeks of international climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. These are the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of ...

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Mickey Mouse With Nazi Symbol Causes Anger In Poland

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Community, Walt Disney, Nazi Germany, Poland, Nazi Mickey Mouse, Nazism, Poznan, Contemporary Art, Poznan Poland, Disney, Swastika, World News

(AP) WARSAW, Poland — A huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse's image with that of a swastika and a nude woman's body is causing a s...

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Kiss of Death for Carbon Capture?

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Poznan, Green Energy, Carbon Capture, Carbon Emissions, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Poznan Forest Deal, Green News

Carbon capture. The Norwegians love it, as does every utility bent on building coal-fired generation. It's like a free "Get out of Jail" card, and probably the biggest bunch of hot air ever.

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Progress on Climate Change in Poznan, Did the Media Miss It?

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Negotiations, Poznan, Climate Change, Obama, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Global Warming, Green News

Most of the news coverage conveyed a state of limbo, if not retrenchment. There is truth in those stories, but they leave much unsaid.

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Talking About Talking

Matthew Owen | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

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Climate Lessons from Kyoto to Sacramento to Poznan

Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Emissions Trading, AB 32, Cap and Trade, Poznan, Emissions Trading, Climate Change, Green News

Based on the outcome of the last international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, we shouldn't wait around for an international treaty to save the day.

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Cooked Goose

David Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poznan, Denialists, Greenhouse Gas Targets, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Kevin Rudd, Green News

If you thought that electing Obama was going to lead to action on global warming you might take a look at this week's events in Australia.

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Poznan Climate Change Conference: All You Need To Know

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poznan, United Nations Climate Conference, Environment, U.N., United Nations, Green News, Energy, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Climate Change, Solar Powered Cars, Green News

WHAT WENT DOWN IN POZNAN? Poznan, Poland hosted the 2008 United Nations Climate Conference, which began on December 1 and ends today. Over 10,000 peop...

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Taking on the Pessimists in Poznan

Betsy Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama is not the Messiah and he cannot be expected to work miracles. But the new president doesn't need us predicting environmental policy failure when he hasn't yet taken office.

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Dispatches from Poznań: Change in the Weather, the United Nations in Poland

David Foster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Foster, Poland, Climate, United Nations, Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Poznan, Climate Change, Green Living, Green Energy, Sustainability, Socialists, World News

Civil society representatives have grasped that environmental investments are at the core of any viable strategy to reinvigorate the collapsing global economy.

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Poznan Forest Deal Gives A Voice To Residents

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poznan, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Poznan Forest Deal, Forests, Deforestation, Environment, Green News

POZNAN, Poland — Negotiators broke an impasse Wednesday on including forest conservation in a new climate change agreement, guaranteeing a voice...

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A Different World Than Kyoto

Jonathan Lash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Mexico, Poznan, Climate Change, Brazil, China, United Nations, Green News

With the target date for the Kyoto Protocol's successor agreement still a year away, and a lame duck U.S. delegation in attendance, nobody expected a ...

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What To Do, What To Do About Gas From Livestock Poop

New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Methane Emissions, Eating Matters, United Nations, Environment, Poznan, Un, Methane Capture, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Green News

The cows and pigs dotting these flat green plains in the southern Netherlands create a bucolic landscape. But looked at through the lens of greenhouse...

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Solar Car Ends Trip Around The World At Climate Talk Site

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yvo De Boer, United Nations, Solar Car, Poznan, Un, Green Cars, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Solar Power, Green News

POZNAN, Poland — If a solar-powered car can drive 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) around the globe without using a drop of oil, perhaps it can ...

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Scientists Warn UN Not To Derail Green Projects

AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, United Nations, Environment, Poznan, Un, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Green News

POZNAN, Poland — Negotiators kicked off the final yearlong push Monday for a new climate change treaty _ but with the U.S. government in transit...

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Regrets Only: 350 Campaign Invites Next POTUS-elect to United Nations Climate Talks

George Spyros | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2008 Elections, 350.Org, Climate Talks, Poland, Mccain, United Nations, Poznan, Climate Change, Obama, 350 Campagin, 2008 Election, Green News

Just in time for the second presidential debate tonight, 350.org is launching a new campaign to send candidates Obama and McCain thousands of invita...

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