Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
China and the U.S. just announced a Joint Statement (available here) and a package of agreed actions on clean energy. This meeting between these two countries that account for around 40% of the world's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels couldn't...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
President Obama is on a swing through Asia and is now in China for high-level meetings on a range of issues. At the top of his agenda with China is how these two key players can individually and jointly move...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
I just participated in a briefing that the International Energy Agency (IEA) provided to climate negotiators in Bangkok. It was an excerpt from their soon to be released World Energy Outlook which is the IEA's regular projection of global energy...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Climate week began with world leaders participating in a full day of discussions on global warming. Over 100 world leaders were in attendance -- the largest gathering of world leaders on global warming and the first in many respects. The...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
President Hu Jintao of China has just unveiled before the world a new set of actions that China will undertake to curb their global warming pollution. The remarks were made today as a part of the UN Secretary General's...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today begins a week dubbed "climate week" because of all the high-level climate discussions that are occurring. And they just all happen to be occurring in the US at an important time for the US domestic debate to pass...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
News coming out of China provides some hints that they might adopt a domestic limit to reduce their global warming. As China Daily is reporting: " China will put in place carbon dioxide emissions targets for its economic and social...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Secretary Clinton announced in Beijing that the US and China have agreed in principle to undertake a periodic high-level strategic and economic dialogue. She and Treasury Secretary Geithner will undertake the dialogue with their Chinese counterparts. The dialogue will be...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
If you've picked up a paper, listened to a radio program, watched a TV program, or read a policy paper on global warming recently you would surely have heard that China and the US are the two biggest sources of...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Andy Revkin has a DotEarth post on: Can U.S., China Team Up on Climate, Energy? Well he didn't exactly ask it directly of me, but I'll take the liberty of responding. The answer is YES and also that THEY MUST....
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Reflecting back on the last two weeks of the Poland climate talks, it is hard not to think how much we need "leaders to lead" us to ambitious solutions to global warming, while creating millions of green jobs and helping...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The first week of the Poland Climate Negotiations has ended and progress is slow. This isn't a surprising outcome at this stage in negotiations. Without the new US leadership in place and with many of the key pieces of the post-2012...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
We'll I'm in Poznan, Poland for two weeks for the next round of international climate negotiations. This session is an important "check point" as it is mid-way between the agreement in Bali (December 2007) and when the final agreement is...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Restoring America's leadership on global warming is no easy task. US leadership has been lost over a sustained period as the current Administration has failed to make progress on global warming. (Sadly this is time we don't have.) So, becoming...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
China just released a "white paper" on its "policies and actions on climate change" which outlines the challenges of climate change to China (e.g., both the impacts and the challenge posed by its reliance on coal), its strategies to address...
