Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
This blog was co-authored with Barbara Finamore and Alvin Lin. The thrust and parry of the post-Copenhagen blame game reached a fever pitch just before the holidays with a number of media articles suggesting that China was responsible for an...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
[Update (3:25pm local time): Wen and Obama both spoke this morning and we are clearly not yet at an agreement. Wen's talk contained important language about transparency, international dialogue and cooperative exchange. Obama emphasized that "We are ready to get this...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
One week down, an agreement to go. The first week at Copenhagen was intense in and out of the Bella Center. Inside, thousands of government bureaucrats and staffers mixed with thousands of environmental advocates, researchers, students, journalists, bloggers and a...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Here are some photos from the first week in Copenhagen. Enjoy! Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Rajendra Pauchari, Chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change China press event with Su Wei, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Todd Stern press...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
The level of interest in what China will do in these Copenhagen negotiations is intense. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the first public Chinese press event of the negotiations at the China delegation office. We arrived to find people...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
We are hosting an official COP15 side event tomorrow in Copenhagen. China and the U.S. are moving forward aggressively to combat climate change. More needs to be done for sure, but the foundation for the types of on-the-ground collaboration needed...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
We registered at the Bella Center yesterday morning and witnessed the calm before the storm. The momentum is palpable as an estimated 25,000 begin to check-in to decide how the world tackles the greatest environmental challenge of our time. Jake...
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
The leaders of the world asked for an extension on climate action in Singapore this past weekend. As Jake Schmidt points out, whether this is good or bad depends on how the leaders of the world's top emitters use this...
Posted by Alex Wang in Solving Global Warming
Today was my first day at the “united nations climate change conference” in Nusa Dua, Bali. In the U.S., we still have to deal with Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and a NASA head who claims...
