by Brooks B. Yeager Executive Vice President for Policy, Clean Air-Cool Planet First impressions from COP-15: This isn’t a meeting or a conference; it’s more like a bizarre and diverse village, simultaneously hosting a festival, conducting a business meeting, and engaging in a political debate. There are street demonstrations at the metro stop, a carnival [...]
Archive for the ‘Arctic’ category
First Impressions from Copenhagen
December 9, 2009Adaptation to Climate Change in the Arctic: Native Communities in Alaska
August 25, 2009By Neda Arabshahi Clean Air-Cool Planet Climate Policy Fellow Friday, July 30, 2009 Interview with Caleb Pungowiyi. Mr. Pungowiyi is a spokesperson and advocate for Native peoples of Alaska, he is a Yup’ik Eskimo who was born and raised on Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island. Please tell me about your experience with climate change and what [...]
Paths through the Arctic lead to Washington, DC
August 18, 2009By Ben Wessel 2009 Clean Air-Cool Planet Climate Fellow for Policy Communications Working on the ground in DC to influence climate policy is important work, but sometimes it’s easy to get trapped in a maze of numbers, analyses, rumors, and blogs. Somewhere between calculating the percentage of carbon permits allocated to state wildlife and natural [...]
Spring in the Air in Tromsoe – It’s All about the Gulf Stream
May 12, 2009by Brooks B. Yeager Executive Vice President for Policy Clean Air-Cool Planet Tromsoe, Norway, is at about the same latitude as Barrow, Alaska – well, it’s 70˚ for Tromsoe, 71˚ for Barrow – I’m sure to the discomfiture of the Norwegians. In any case, they are two of the largest towns of what’s known as [...]
