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Progress in Cancun and How America Can Meet Our Climate Commitments

December 15, 2010 by Frances Beinecke
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In Cancun, nearly 200 countries reached an agreement on how to confront climate change both as individual nations and as a global community. This achievement brings greater definition to the Copenhagen accord and provides a practical framework for all countries to forge ahead with climate solutions. This is real, historic progress (read... [read more]

COP15: Not so bella in Copenhagen

December 14, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Some people had to wait for a very, very long time to register for the UN climate talks at the Bella Center in Copenhagen where the meetings are being held. The Danes are very democratic so VIPs stood in line with the rest of us.  I ran into Frances Beinecke, president of The Natural Resources Defense Council. Temperatures were in... [read more]

NRDC’s Frances Beinecke: Act now on climate!

November 10, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Just last week, Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, gave a speech to a Chicago business audience and the first question went something like this: I read the Wall Street Journal, I still don’t believe in climate science and I want to hear the full  story. Beinecke’s new book, Clean Energy Common... [read more]

Is China Beating the U.S. in Clean Tech ?

October 13, 2009 by Big Gav
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Technology Review has an article on Chinese progress in the cleantech sector - Is China Beating the U.S. in Clean Tech?.China could beat the United States in a race to deploy clean energy technology that can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, said Frances Beinecke, leader of a leading environmental group, speaking this week at MIT. "I... [read more]