Barbara Elkus Senior Advisor, Clean Air-Cool Planet I recently had the pleasure of working with the Norwegian Ambassador, Wegger Christian Strommen, on several climate events in New Mexico. “Why do I do these events?” asked the Ambassador at a luncheon for 130 business leaders. “Because Norway is close to where the action is, the ice is [...]
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The Arctic is Melting, the Desert is Burning
February 24, 2011Learning, face-to-face, that we all want the same thing
November 17, 2010Jennifer Andrews, Director of Program Planning and Coordination Clean Air-Cool Planet ® A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting a visit to Clean Air-Cool Planet from seven fascinating gentleman from the Middle East. These visitors—professors, journalists, environmental ministers and local officials from Morocco, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq—were on a whirlwind [...]
What do witch hunts look like in a changing climate?
July 7, 2010By Bill Burtis Manager of Communications and Special Projects, Clean Air-Cool Planet I came across the article “The Witch Hunt of the Little Ice Age” (by Dr. Promode Kant at the Institute for a green Economy in New Delhi) during a search for science on that period of the planet’s history made famous by climate [...]
Needed: Achievable Climate Goals
June 7, 2010By Toby Ball, Guest Blogger www.tobyball.com Three years ago, I was the field organizer for the Carbon Coalition finishing up work on the Climate Change Resolution Campaign. Back then, nobody’d had a strong read on how the town meetings would go. Despite a strong cohort of Carbon Coalition representatives working to pass the resolution [...]
11th hour deal finally sewn up in Copenhagen
December 18, 2009By 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 [...]
Copenhagen from the Other Side of the World
December 18, 2009By 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 [...]
Some signs of new life for an agreement in Copenhagen
December 18, 2009By 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 [...]
From COP-15: A Long Night in Copenhagen
December 17, 2009By 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 [...]
From COP-15: Breakdowns Rule the Day in Copenhagen
December 16, 2009By 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 [...]
Copenhagen: An Opportunity for Climate AND Population
December 10, 2009by 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, [...]
