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A Clear-Eyed Look at China’s Climate Target
Here is a post by NRDC China Fellow, David Cohen-Tanugi, who is in our Washington, DC office: In the lead-up to Copenhagen, and again in its submission to the UNFCCC in January, China announced a target to lower its carbon intensity, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP, by 40-45% by 2020 compared to a 2005 baseline. Now... [read more]
Another way forward? World Peoples’ Climate Summit launched by Bolivia at UNFCC talks
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings continued in Bonn, Germany from 9 – 11 April 2010. This marked the eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 11) as well as the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term... [read more]
The Copenhagen Accord at three months - 110 countries support new global effort to achieve climate safety
CAP’s Andrew Light and Sean Pool have put together a simple update on the status of the Copenhagen Accord, and how close it brings us to stabilizing global temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius. Click the map above to go to their interactive tool. I repost their comments here. The agreement that emerged from December’s U.N.... [read more]
Noon webcast of Todd Stern, lead U.S. climate negotiator, in first public post-Copenhagen speech
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]
Your parents were wrong
The Sierra Club and American Electric Power, the nation’s largest coal-burning utility, don’t agree on much, but there is this: Money does grow on trees. Along with other big environmental groups and such businesses as Duke Energy and El Paso Corp., they are part of a coalition that wants to use markets to protect the world’s forests... [read more]
President’s Budget Backs Climate Change Action
President Obama’s FY2011 budget proposal reiterates his commitment to creating jobs and strengthening our economy by building a clean energy future, and his determination to combat climate change through international agreements, comprehensive new climate and energy legislation, and action under the Clean Air Act. The message... [read more]
Infonugget: China: Voluntary only restrictions, please
China Insists That Its Steps on Climate Be Voluntary: As a Sunday target date approaches for countries to submit to the United Nations their plans for fighting climate change, China is banding together with other major developing nations to stress that only the wealthier countries need to make internationally binding commitments. So... [read more]
The Energy Collective Webinar: Is Global Action to Address Climate Change a Pipe Dream?
After Copenhagen: What Was Achieved? Live Webcast January 26, 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST Click here to REGISTER NOW!! The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or Cop15, took place in Copenhagen December 2009 with the goal of establishing a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto accords, due to expire in 2012. The expectations for the... [read more]
Signposts to Mexico
The IPCC’s Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the IEA and UN suggest what’s next after Copenhagen “What Copenhagen proves is that the world’s power balance has changed. This was not a negotiation of the G8 or white Anglo-Saxon males. When you have India, China and South Africa coming together, that reflects a new political reality.” Day... [read more]
Copenhagen De-briefing: An Analysis of COP15 for Long-term Cooperation
Climatico has just released its latest report entitled, “Copenhagen De-briefing: An Analysis of COP15 for Long-term Cooperation” This report analyses key issues under discussion in Copenhagen including: finance, technology transfer, REDD+, CDM and JI, as well as the ongoing conflicts between Annex I and Non Annex I countries. The... [read more]
Does Your Firm Understand its Climate Change Risk?
From Cleaner Greener China Earlier this week at an event, I was speaking with the Sustainability Director of a large FMCG firm discussing what the outcome of the Copenhagen negotiations meant for business like the one he represented (his firm is a bit of a poster child), and my reply to him was to get ready. That, as a result of the... [read more]
In the wake of Copenhagen, some things are clear
A cartoon circulating during COP15 showed a climate denier in the audience gesturing to a PowerPoint at the front of the hall that listed "Energy Independence. Preserve rainforests. Green jobs. Livable cities. Renewables. Clean water, air. Healthy children. Etc, etc." "But what if it's a big hoax," the skeptic grumbles, "and we create a... [read more]
Non-breaking China news
China would never accept checks at Copenhagen: official: China was never going to accept outside reviews in Copenhagen of its efforts to slow greenhouse gas emissions, a top official said on Saturday, after critics accused Beijing of blocking the talks. Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the powerful National Development and Reform... [read more]
Roger Ballentine: COP was not a flop
The COP15 meetings in Copenhagen left many of us discouraged, as I wrote here. But some smart people are taking a closer look at the Copenhagen Accord and finding reason for optimism. One is Roger Ballentine, the president of Green Strategies, a Washington-based consulting firm who is today’s guest blogger. Roger’s a longtime... [read more]
Another Copenhagen Outcome: Serious Questions About the Best Institutional Path Forward
Whether you like it or not, for the time being the most important product of the December meeting in Copenhagen of the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the “Copenhagen Accord,” which I assessed in my December 20th blog post (“What Hath Copenhagen... [read more]
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