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Climate Week offers hope in the US private sector
(Image by: Kevin Dooley) Article By Guest Contributor: Lynann Butkiewicz As world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, another type of gathering was taking place across the city. Government officials, NGOs, and private sector leaders held a series of meetings during Climate Week, a week dedicated to...[read more]
Mary Robinson Foundation builds women's leadership on climate action
New York is buzzing with excitement (and traffic jams) this week as hundreds of leaders -- business, government, NGOs and others -- descend on the city for the opening of the UN General Assembly and the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals. Also slated for the week are a high-level UNGA meeting on Biodiversity, a...[read more]
Copenhagen approaches: Watching me watching you
As we creep (or sprint, depending on your expectations) ever closer to December’s Copenhagen climate meeting, there’s no shortage of opinions online and in meatspace about the prospects of reaching a “good” agreement, or even what would constitute a “good” agreement. Some opinions, of course, mean more than others, and TreeHugger has a...[read more]
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