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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
You might be wondering what the four things in the headline to this post have to do with each other. Frogs? Deforestation? SOS? and NRDC's Leaders???? Excellent question! They are connected in a very simple way: NRDC's President Frances Beinecke...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Todd Stern the Special Envoy for Climate Change, just testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on: The Road to Copenhagen and International Climate Agreement. His testimony (available here) and response to several questions for...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
This past Wednesday (June 17, 2009) the Appropriations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives that has jurisdiction over the international global warming pieces of President Obama's budget passed a bill that supported increasing US commitments to these needed efforts. ...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Two weeks of negotiations on the new international agreement to address global warming pollution are just wrapping up here in Bonn, Germany. What has emerged this week clearly signals that the international negotiations need to move "onward" with progress...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
I've been participating since last Monday in the global warming negotiations in Bonn, Germany. This is the second session of the year. There are 53 days of official negotiations before Copenhagen and this is day 17 (the first 10...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
I've discussed in part 1 -- shared vision and developed country emissions reduction commitments -- and part 2 -- developing country emissions reductions and the incentives to encourage them to go further -- key proposals that have now been...continued→
