Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The draft of the American Power Act is now out (see NRDC's first read summary of the entire bill). The core global warming pollution limits in the bill, covering all major pollution sources, are a solid foundation for Senate legislation...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The World Bank has just announced its intent to seek $86 billion for a general capital increase (the GCI) from its donor countries (see World Bank press release). It is time for the World Bank to become a full part...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Illegal logging has a huge impact on the loss of tropical forests in the key countries that account for the vast majority of deforestation (as I discussed here). These forests are being lost at the rate of two football fields...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Ministers from four of the major emerging economies – Brazil, South Africa, India, and China (the “BASIC” group) – met over the weekend and through Monday to discuss the next steps in international efforts to address global warming. These four...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Today celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and later this week there will be a rally in the U.S. on global warming pollution to try to push the U.S. Senate over the finish line in passing a comprehensive climate...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The first global warming negotiations post Copenhagen have just wrapped up here in Bonn (as I discussed here). It was a 3 day session and was mostly focused on establishing the process and expectations for negotiations this year. While there...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
In the lead-in to Copenhagen’s global warming summit last December a lot of the public statements and press coverage focused on whether or not Copenhagen would “seal the deal” and agree to a new international treaty to address global warming. ...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Today the World Bank approved a loan to build the fourth largest power plant in the world. The project is to be financed with a $3 billion loan to Eskom – the South African electricity company – and is the...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The final outcome coming from Copenhagen this past December left many confused about how many countries would ultimately commit to take actions to reduce their global warming pollution as the Copenhagen Accord agreed (as I discussed here). And there was...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
“China is emerging as the world’s clean energy powerhouse…there are reasons to be concerned about the U.S. competitive position in the clean energy marketplace”. Those are findings from a new report compiled using data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Want to Protect Farms and Ranches Here? Protect them there. Ending deforestation in the tropics isn’t just some tree-hugger’s cause. Those are the opening lines of a new advertisement campaign run by the Ohio Corn Growers Association and Avoided Deforestation...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming
“All regions of the world show an overall net negative impact of climate change on water resources and freshwater ecosystems.” Today is World Water Day – a day established to recognize the importance of water to the nations and...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
In the ongoing onslaught on the science underlying global warming, one recent criticism has focused on the finding that global warming could cause large-scale dieback of Amazon rainforest as cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (a...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Both China and India have now reaffirmed that they will report their global warming emissions every 2 years. The framework of this was agreed in the Copenhagen Accord which outlined that every two years developing countries will report their national...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
It is almost 3 months after the Copenhagen Accord was hammered out by 28 of the world’s key countries that represent over 80% of the world’s global warming pollution and some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate...
