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 Solving Global Warming
At a global warming summit convened today in California, President-elect Obama signaled that he will make addressing global warming the high priority it deserves. In the video statement telecast (here) to summit attendees from around the US and the world...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
There was a news story coming out of Canada as reported in the Globe and Mail that Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer. As reported by the Globe and Mail: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to strike a joint...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The world is reacting to the election of President-elect Obama. I understand that Europeans, Nelson Mandela, Kenyans, Mexico and elsewhere (to name a few) were thrilled by the opportunities presented by a change in leadership in the US and the...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
We now have a new leader in the US that understands global warming and recognizes that it requires leadership both at home and abroad. Addressing this challenge (and opportunity) will be a key task of both President-elect Barack Obama (and...
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...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The European Union (EU) just finalized its plans to require that all flights to and from the EU will be required to reduce their global warming pollution. This is a long awaited plan from the EU. Starting in 2012, all...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Cross-posted from THE ENVIRONMENTALIST. -------------------- The European Commission (the Commission) just released their proposal for addressing the challenges of deforestation and forest degradation to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. This is the long awaited Communication on the European Union's...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
This post first appeared on Globalwarmingisreal.com. ---------- The BBC is reporting on a new study which estimated that current deforestation is costing the world $2-5 trillion per year. Wow...that is a lot of dollars, euros, yen, or whatever you are...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Interesting developments in Indonesia on the deforestation front! An editorial in the Jakarta Post discusses a recent announcement from the Indonesian Forestry Ministry to require forest certification. As the editorial outlines this: bold move to require forestry companies to have...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
I was looking for something else and just stumbled upon this news from the European effort to address illegal logging. As a part of a vote on the EU joining an international agreement on timber trade, the European Parliament agreed...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
I just posted a comment on a new Dot Earth post Wildlife Group Presses Poor Nations on CO2. The article starts with the following statement (to wet your appetite): "When a prominent figure from the developing world delivers a sharp...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
As the New Yorker highlighted in their recent article Stolen Forests, illegal logging is a major problem -- causing deforestation, supporting criminal groups, etc. As my colleague Jacob Scherr highlights, it is also a threat to indigenous communities. And, addressing...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The Brazilian government will release a goal to cut net deforestation to zero by 2015, as a part of a draft climate change action plan, as reported by the BBC. The plan aims to have more trees planted in Brazil...
