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 Greening China , Solving Global Warming
News coming out of China provides some hints that they might adopt a domestic limit to reduce their global warming. As China Daily is reporting: " China will put in place carbon dioxide emissions targets for its economic and social...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
In the climate negotiations occurring in Bonn, Germany there is an emerging debate on the form of "commitment or action" developing countries will undertake (as the Economic Times in India points out). This has been a long running debate...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I've been spending a lot of my time recently trying to get a strong structure for addressing the loss of the world's tropical rainforests as a part of the US climate bill. This took two parallel tracks -- developing a...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The Waxman-Markey "American Clean Energy and Security Act" (HR 2454) is now out (see here for the full bill and here for NRDC's top line summary of the entire bill). The House Energy and Commerce Committee is focused this week...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
A new coalition of U.S. Representatives, faith and military leaders unveiled a new push to secure strong global warming policy and ensure that the most vulnerable throughout the world are supported in efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
People always ask me: how do we get a strong international commitment to solve global warming pollution? What "tools" do U.S. negotiators (and others) have to secure an equitable commitment from all major emitters to reduce global warming pollution? How...continued→
