Posted by Melanie Nakagawa in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The recently released draft of the Waxman Markey draft climate bill sets the 111th Congress off to a great start, but more importantly, has put together a set of tools that will help our climate negotiators on their way to...
Posted by Melanie Nakagawa in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
We've all been hearing the litany of problems with tar sands from the environmental impacts to the public health consequences. However, how much more needs to happen for our decision makers to act now? Scientists who have specialized in...
Posted by Melanie Nakagawa in Solving Global Warming
This week the Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner will make his appearance at the United Nations climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland. What will be important is how Canada frames their global warming pollution and how ambitious their target will be...
Posted by Melanie Nakagawa in Solving Global Warming
With the first week of the international climate change negotiations (aka the “COP”, acronym for Conference of the Parties) over and the second and final week about to start, this is a good opportunity for me to reflect on the...
