This, my first post on COP16, is also probably the first hopeful piece I’ve written about the climate negotiations. The next two weeks will tell if that optimism is well founded. Yesterday some 15,000 delegates, business leaders, activists and journalists gathered in Cancun to kick off the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 16th meeting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘China’
How the Cancun Conference Can Succeed With — or Without — China
Posted in UN Dispatch, tagged Cancun, China, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, Kyoto Protocol, Mexico, UN on November 30, 2010 |
A Ray of Light In China? EPA administrator attempts to defuse climate standoff
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Change, Environmental, EPA, India, Kyoto Protocol, South Africa, Tianjin, UN on October 15, 2010 |
This second of two posts about the Tianjin climate talks gets into the dismal politics responsible for the stalled policies. The climate talks in Tianjin last week did very little to improve the prospects for a binding international treaty, which would reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are warming the globe. In the wake [...]
Dancing in the Dark: The Danger of Letting Business Lead on Climate Protection
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Business, China, Climate Change, Clinton Global Initiative, Dance, e-Waste, Energy, Environment, Google, Government, India, Mobile, Nuclear, South Africa, UN on September 22, 2010 |
This was my write up of the first of a handful of great panel discussions I saw at CGI. In a candid session on energy and the environment at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday, the world’s lead climate negotiator Christiana Figueres explained why her organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), had [...]
Why China is Unwilling to Play the Climate Negotiation Game
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Change, Climate Finance, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, Mexico, South Africa, UN on September 8, 2010 |
While the embattled Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have been the leading climate-related news the past couple weeks, of more importance to the international negotiations were two meetings at opposite ends of the globe. A week ago Saturday, China and Japan held a one-day ministerial level meeting in Beijing to discuss economic matters, among [...]
Flooding, Fires, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding?
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged BASIC, Bonn, Brazil, Cancun, China, Climate Finance, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Kyoto Protocol, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, World Resources Institute on August 26, 2010 |
The World Resources Institute recently released updated estimates of the “fast-start” climate mitigation and adaption commitments rich nations made to poor countries after the Copenhagen summit. The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nations have set aside an estimated $27.9 billion, a combined total that is only $2 billion shy of the amount they promised [...]
Mexico’s Climate Gamble: Can It Salvage the Cancun Summit?
Posted in Huffington Post, UN Dispatch, tagged China, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, Environment, India, Kyoto, Mexico on August 23, 2010 |
Add another line to the resume: I’ve been accepted as a Huffington Post blogger. This green piece, originally written for UN Dispatch, is my first to be republished there. I have now joined hundreds of unpaid journalists, PR flacks, politicians, and celebrities who are all pushing our particular message on Arianna’s tremendously popular web platform. [...]
Why the Climate Talks in Bonn Were a Failure
Posted in UN Dispatch, tagged China, Climate Change, Environment, International, Science, UN on August 11, 2010 |
In the nice introductory note my editor made on my first post, he concluded by saying that I “will be covering the international climate talks for Dispatch.” While I’m not sure how I will do that between now and the Tianjin talks in October, I had enough material to draw on from the conclusion of [...]
‘Bonn Voyage’ for an International Climate Treaty?
Posted in UN Dispatch, tagged Australia, Cap-and-Trade, China, Climate Change, Environment, Germany, Kyoto, Mexico, UN on August 5, 2010 |
This is my first blog post for the climate channel of UN Dispatch, an internationalist site funded by the UN Foundation. I hope to write a post per week for them to keep up with the climate beat. Reports suggest that international climate negotiators meeting this week in Bonn, Germany are not focused on setting [...]
The American Prospect: Hypocrisy for a Good Cause?
Posted in Hiar Learning, tagged Africa, Bill Gates, China, Environment, Main Street, Minnesota, Philanthropy, Politics, Wall Street on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is my third post on a topic of my choice for the Prospect‘s writing test (and the favorite of my sister, who graciously helped to copy edit my submissions). I give a Minnesotan take on the Oracle of Omaha in this piece. The first TAP test post had a green angle, the second talked [...]
