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,...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
This December, the nations of the world will meet in Copenhagen to forge a new climate accord that replaces the Kyoto Protocol. With those meetings just six months away, world leaders are gathering this week in Germany to make progress...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
While most of the climate negotiations in Bonn have been focused on key issues around the overall agreement, as I've discussed here and here, there has also been some side discussions on other key issues. I've been involved in a...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
In a recent New York Times article New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests, some confusion arose on the need to stop the loss of tropical deforestation (or at least that is the way I read the article). We...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today, NRDC joined a diverse group of environmental, conservation, and development organizations; businesses; and leading academics in a "Call for Leadership" to address deforestation (available here and a list of partners here). Frances Beinecke, our President, helped launch this "Call" with a...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Today, the European Commission released proposed outlines for the EU's negotiating position for the agreement to be reached in Copenhagen (Dec. 2009)-in EU parlance a "Commission Communication". It outlines the Commission's proposal for an EU position going into the international...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Today, a ceremony was held at the US State Department to announce Todd Stern as the Special Envoy for Climate Change (see short bio and video of the event). As we outlined in our transition recommendations, it is crucial that...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
It is hard not to be inspired by this day in the US transfer of power (for lots of reasons). It is a day that promises such dramatic opportunities for change. Change from the destructive environmental record of the Bush...continued→
