Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has just announced that South Korea would commit to significant steps to address their global warming pollution (as Reuters and the Financial Times reported). He announced that South Korea would cut their global warming pollution...
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 Solving Global Warming
This morning (Singapore time), leaders from 19 countries -- including the US, China, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, and Japan -- joined a last minute breakfast to discuss the upcoming global warming meeting in Copenhagen. The breakfast meeting, hosted by the...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The last round of global warming negotiations before the Copenhagen meeting begins are just wrapping up here in Barcelona. Much of the actual negotiations were focused on getting the negotiating text and the underlying details contained in the text into...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
One of the chief talking points of opponents of US clean energy and climate legislation is the claim that the bills working their way through Congress would have little impact on global warming. Taking US action in isolation, they claim...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
I'm in Copenhagen where Indian Minister of State for Environment & Forests Jairam Ramesh just gave a speech where he said: "We come to Copenhagen as a deal maker, not a deal breaker". No I didn't mistake the dates of...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The two-week global warming negotiations in Bangkok, Thailand are just wrapping up. There are five key elements to the Copenhagen Agreement (as I've discussed on a number of occasions): Strong leadership from developed countries with firm and aggressive emissions reductions...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
During the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh an unnoticed announcement could have a huge impact on global warming pollution. Unreported at the time (I missed it and I was in Pittsburgh), the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that: "We are...
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 Solving Global Warming
You know the saying: "it's the little things that matter". Well you can't really take that saying too literally when discussing global warming pollution as it is the big things that ultimately matter such as pollution reduction cuts, assistance for...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Here in Bangkok at the climate negotiations, the US lead negotiator Jonathan Pershing sparked a little heat on the first day of the session (as you can see from this and this news coverage). Within the climate negotiations there is...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Well "climate week" has just wrapped up with the conclusion of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. This week was an important one to build international and US momentum for addressing global warming pollution (as I discussed here). As I discussed...
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
This week world leaders have met in New York and Pittsburgh to discuss global warming. These high-level meetings are aimed at providing a much needed boost to international efforts to secure a strong agreement to address global warming in Copenhagen,...
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...
