By Anne Stephenson,
Campus Outreach Coordinator,
Clean Air-Cool Planet
As you’ve discovered from Claire’s earlier post, she and I are in Taipei for climate action planning workshops for Taiwanese schools and universities. Our workshops went really well (more on that later) but first a post on Taipei in general…
At first glance, Taipei is a carbon management [...]
By Bill Moomaw,
Director,
Center for International Environment and Resource Policy
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
The flailing around in Copenhagen has produced little in the way of a useful agreement. After wasting 15 years following the ratification of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world discovered that an intensive two-year negotiations process has failed to bring about an effective solution even [...]
By Brooks Yeager
Executive Vice President for Policy,
Clean Air-Cool Planet
It’s 11 at night in Copenhagen, and the word is that President Obama has finally sewn up a deal. It took more effort, of a more personal kind, than perhaps he might have expected. He had to scrap his schedule, stay longer than he planned, cajole Wen [...]
By Claire Roby
Carbon Accounting Coordinator
Clean Air-Cool Planet
I’ve returned to Taiwan after studying here five years ago to find an incredibly warm December, and it is not difficult to imagine that global climate change is in the forefront of many people’s minds. The Copenhagen talks have been featured prominently in the papers for the two weeks [...]
By Brooks B. Yeager
Executive Vice President for Policy
Clean Air-Cool Planet
It’s all come down to the wire. The possibility of a meaningful political deal, declared dead by Chinese negotiators as late as Wednesday night, has been given new life, but only just. The rescue began with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s news conference Thursday morning. Ms. [...]
By Brooks Yeager,
Executive Vice President for Policy
Clean Air-Cool Planet
It’s going to be a long night. The veteran negotiators have that look of weary resignation that means they know what they have to do, even if they were much younger the last time they had to do it. But all the gauntlets have been thrown down, [...]
By Brooks B. Yeager,
Executive Vice President for Policy,
Clean Air-Cool Planet
Today was the day that anything that could break down, did break down. This was true both inside the negotiations and out. First to go was the credentialling system. The problems with the lines of uncredentialled participants, which have been growing since late last week, finally overwhelmed [...]
By Brooks B. Yeager,
Executive Vice President for Policy,
Clean Air-Cool Planet
The world’s snow and ice took center stage at the Copenhagen climate conference today, as former Vice President Al Gore joined Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr-Store to raise the troubling specter of a world in which mountain glaciers are a distant memory and the Greenland ice sheet’s [...]
By Brooks B. Yeager,
Executive Vice President for Policy,
Clean Air-Cool Planet
While progress in crafting an effective international response to climate change has been proceeding, as they say, “at a glacial pace,” the glaciers themselves have not. They’ve been retreating and losing ice at an accelerating rate – one that threatens to change the face of the planet [...]
by Vicky Markham
Director, The Center for Environment and Population (CEP),
an independent non-profit science-based research and policy organization
There’s great pressure in Copenhagen on the US to take a lead role in curbing the CO2 “greenhouse gas” emissions that cause climate change. This is in part because we are the world’s biggest energy consumer, using 25% of [...]
