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An Interview with Bolivian Activist Peregrina Kusse Viza: We Must Respect Mother Earth, Our Pachamam

April 21, 2010 by Richard Graves
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On Monday, the top US climate negotiator, Todd Stern, admitted that a binding agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions may not even be possible at the next UN climate summit scheduled for December in Cancun. Stern’s comments came after the US took part in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington. While the... [read more]

The Fundamentals Haven't Changed

February 17, 2010 by Michael Tobis
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There's a transcript of a press briefing from Todd Stern, who was the US envoy to Copenhagen. Of course he's trying to put a positive spin on it. Naturally, some of the questions were about the new feature of weather weirding, the teapot tempest, of which there have been a few of late, especially on the east coast (burying Washington... [read more]

Noon webcast of Todd Stern, lead U.S. climate negotiator, in first public post-Copenhagen speech

February 8, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Click here to watch the event live. Todd Stern, U.S. special envoy for climate change, will be speaking about the lessons of the COP-15 summit in Copenhagen last December, the significance of the Copenhagen Accord that was negotiated there, and the path forward over the coming year and beyond. This will be Stern’s first public speech... [read more]

A Copenhagen Compact

December 17, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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This guest post is by CAP’s Andrew Light in Copenhagen outside the Bella Center (What, you think I would be inside?) Up until the wee hours of this morning the consensus view was that this meeting was about to fall apart completely. Some of the most trusted environmental journalist I know, who have the most astute anti “sky is falling... [read more]

US Special Envoy Stern in Copenhagen: ‘Only with 1990 metric does US target look bad.’

December 16, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern (Photo: Center for American Progress) At a press briefing yesterday afternoon, Todd Stern, President Obama’s Special Envoy on Climate Change at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen said that “only in the hermetically sealed world of climate negotiations” is the baseline year of... [read more]

COP15: From the streets to the meeting room with Todd Stern and Jonathan Pershing

December 14, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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Guest Post by Garett Brennan, Executive Director- Focus the Nation The other morning, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) released their AOSIS Text. The first proposal in the negotiations so far that is actually responding to what the science is demanding: 1. Fair – securing at least $200 billion by 2020 in climate financing... [read more]

COP15's Waning Promise: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times.

December 11, 2009 by Peter Troast
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The COP15 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen - what some are calling the most important meeting in history - is in full swing.  We thought we'd take the opportunity to bring you up to date on some of the most insightful, interesting, and memorable news and commentary about the conference - and particularly, what the COP15... [read more]

Todd Stern Says No Treaty at Copenhagen

December 11, 2009 by Mike Smith
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Special U.S. Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern yesterday arrived at the United Nations Foundation meeting on Climate Change, a bit jet-lagged, and went right onto the press conference stage. He said that the United States believes the outcomes here in Copenhagen will become a "politically binding agreement" but not legally binding. A... [read more]

Copenhagen, Day Five: Negotiations Move Slowly Forward

December 11, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting on the scene from Copenhagen during the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Blame Canada The mayor of Toronto, Canada, David Miller, accepted the top two Fossil of the Day awards from the International Climate Action Network on behalf of Canada. The climate organizations and Miller... [read more]

COP15: Morality and money

December 11, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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If you want to understand why it will be hard to get rich and poor countries to agree on how to deal with climate change, consider the reaction to a remark by Todd Stern, the U.S.’s chief negotiator, when he arrived here in Copenhagen the other day. Stern said: We absolutely recognize our historic role in putting emissions in the... [read more]

No Money for China — No Problem

December 10, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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This guest post is by CAP’s Julian L. Wong. The media headlines are screaming “U.S. Won’t Pay China to Cut Emissions” and “US Rules Out Climate Aid to China.” Todd Stern, the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, made clear in a press conference on Wednesday in Copenhagen that the war chest for the initial fast track funds being... [read more]

China in Copenhagen Day 3: Tuvalu raises the bar, China reacts

December 10, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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This guest post is by Angel Hsu and Christopher Kieran, both part of  Yale University’s “Team China” tracking the Chinese delegation live from Copenhagen as part of The Green Leap Forward’s “China in Copenhagen” series. A small island nation has now become famous here in Copenhagen:  Tuvalu, a tiny Polynesian island occupying... [read more]

President Obama says he might go to Copenhagen

November 10, 2009 by Climatico Analysis
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After much speculation, including people pointing out that Copenhagen is just around the corner from Oslo where he will receive his Noble Peace prize, President Obama finally addressed the issue of his possible attendance at the Copenhagen negotiations. In a Reuters interview Obama said yesterday that he will go to Copenhagen “If I am... [read more]

Obama to speak at U.N. special session on global warming; Todd Stern testifies

September 10, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Obama’s (first) big speech on global warming is going to come sooner than expected. And all the nonsensical media reporting on how the administration is supposedly backing away from a sense of urgency on the climate issue — on passing the clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill — should be dispelled by reading the testimony from... [read more]

Peaking Duck: Beijing’s Growing Appetite for Climate Action

August 20, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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CAP’s Julian Wong has a follow up to “China softens climate rhetoric, commits to emissions peak (again), shows flexibility on Western reductions.”  In the photo, Chinese Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua shakes hands with Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern as Secretary of State... [read more]