Posted May 22, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Health and the Environment, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
When countries meet in Rio+20 they have a choice – they can talk about the actions that should be taken to reduce global warming or they can outline new actions that they’ll personally implement. We are way past the point...continued→
Posted May 21, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
With the haze of the Durban climate negotiations finally lifting, the climate negotiations in Germany at the midway point, and one month before Rio+20 it is time to reflect on the path that lies ahead for the rest of this...continued→
Posted May 18, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Twenty clean energy entrepreneurs and nearly thirty civil society organizations leaders sent a letter to the World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick last week urging him to commit to $500 million for off-grid renewable energy investments at next month’s Rio+20...continued→
Posted May 9, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Three years ago, the Group of 20 countries pledged to phase out environmentally-harmful and ineffective subsidies. The leaders of these twenty influential countries have since made many other promises to deal with climate change and the range of global sustainability...continued→
Posted May 8, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
At a hearing today before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee leading individuals and groups came out strongly opposed to bills that would undermine the U.S. Lacey Act – a key law to help stop global deforestation...continued→
Posted May 7, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
By a vote of 148-0 South Korean lawmakers have just approved a national emissions trading program to reduce the global warming pollution from its largest sectors by 2015. South Korea is the world’s 8th largest emitter of carbon pollution from...continued→
Posted April 24, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
One in five people in the world live without electricity – or around 1.3 billion people – and one billion more live only with access to unreliable electricity. Almost 3 billion people rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating....continued→
Posted April 20, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The Mexican Senate passed the national climate law that recently passed the Mexican House. The bill now awaits the signature of President Felipe Calderón who is expected to sign the bill into law. This law sends a strong signal that...continued→
Posted April 13, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
In the lead-in to the Cancun Global Warming Negotiations, the Mexican government was debating a national climate law – the General Law on Climate Change. Unfortunately that measure wasn’t signed into law before Cancun, but Mexico has just moved a...continued→
Posted April 12, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
In 2011, new clean energy investments rose to a record $263 billion – a 6.5 percent increase from last year. The United States rose to the top in 2011 after having fallen behind China and Germany last year. But the...continued→
Posted April 3, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
(Former) President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night talking about global warming, his efforts to get world leaders to rally around finding a solution at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, and the...continued→
Posted April 2, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
If you are the leader of a small island state – like the Maldives – and every day you are faced with the threats posed by global warming what would you do? Well now you can see and hear first-hand...continued→
Posted March 13, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Tar sands oil mining causes more carbon pollution than previously estimated – according to a new study. This study reaffirms how bad of an investment the Keystone XL tax sands pipeline would be for our children, our country, and our...continued→
Posted March 12, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
This is a guest post from Harald Winkler, on staff at the Energy Research Center of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is a leading researcher on climate change and energy policies in South Africa and in...continued→
Posted March 6, 2012 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
We are partnering with other organizations to launch a new competition – “Win a Date with History”. This is your chance to let world leader’s know exactly what you want them to do at the 2012 Earth Summit in Rio...continued→
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