News > What's New
> Copenhagen Summit 2009 Copenhagen Summit 2009
- Off to the Races
Dec 19, 2009 - Thomas L. Friedman - New York Times
I’ve long believed there are two basic strategies for dealing with climate change — the “Earth Day” strategy and the “Earth Race” strategy.
- Day 13 - The minor accord and the major plea
Dec 21, 2009 - Guy Turner - newenergyfinance.com
Essentially, the final day of COP15 in Copenhagen on Saturday did not bring anything new to what had been witnessed late into Friday night. The “Copenhagen Accord” having been hammered out by the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa on Friday was put to the Plenary on Saturday for just an hour’s consideration
- Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough
Dec 19, 2009 - Associated Press
Around the world, countries and capitalism are already working to curb global warming on their own, with or without a global treaty.
- Climat deal falls short
Dec 18, 2009 - GLENN THRUSH & LOUISE ROUG - Politico
The climate deal reached between U.S, China and other great powers on Friday night is so vague, hastily hatched and non-binding President Obama isn’t even sure he’ll be required to sign it.
-
Complex
Models, Simple Solutions
Dec 18, 2009 - Gavin Schmidt - Earth Institute
This
is the twenty-ninth of a continuing series of essays and interviews from Earth
Institute scientists on the prospects for a global climate-change treaty. Check
with us daily for news and perspectives, and to make comments, as events unfold
throughout the Copenhagen meetings.
- Climate
Deal Announced, but Falls Short of Expectations
Dec 18, 2009 - Helene
Cooper and John M. Broder - The New York Times
Leaders here concluded
a climate
change deal on Friday that the Obama administration called “meaningful”
but that falls short of even the modest expectations for the summit meeting here.
- Obama science advisor John Holdren on U.S. strategy in Copenhagen
Dec 17, 2009 - The Grist
COPENHAGENOne of the puzzles about the U.S. strategy here in is how negotiators expected that pledging a 17 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 could be taken seriously.
- Hillary
Clinton offers climate aid to poor countries—with strings attached
Dec
17, 2009 - AFP
COPENHAGEN - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slightly
brightened a grim mood at the U.N. climate talks on Thursday by announcing that
the United States would contribute toward a long-term fund worth $100 billion
a year by 2020.
- NASA,
Google offer more precise emissions tracking
Dec 17, 2009 - Seth Borenstein
and Michael Casey - The Associated Press
The question is a potential deal-killer:
If nations ever agree to slash greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know
if they live up to their pledges?
- Developing
nations hold the key to Copenhagen climate agreement
Dec 16, 2009 -
Jim Tankersley - Los Angeles Times
Rich nations still hold some bargaining
chips, but many negotiators and observers say key decisions by poor and emerging
nations will make or break any deal.
- Saving
Rainforests: Low-Hanging Fruit
Dec 16, 2009 - Geoffrey Heal - Earth
Institute
The climate summit offers an opportunity to agree on two concrete
policies that should significantly reduce global warming: incentives to end deforestation,
and to generate electricity without releasing greenhouse gases.
- Chu Introduces Climate REDI Program At Copenhagen Conference
Dec 15, 2009 - Solar Industry
On behalf of President Obama, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the launch of the Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI), a new initiative designed to promote clean energy technologies in developing countries.
- World
mayors compare notes on saving climate
Dec 15, 2009 - Jan M. Olsen
and Charles J. Hanley - The Associated Press
The Obama administration
should have sent federal stimulus money not to the U.S. states, but to cities,
where "most of the environmental damage is done and most of the chances for improvement
are," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.
- Ditch
the Climate Change Debate
Dec 15, 2009 - Green Builder
A
recent editorial cartoon that I ran across cleverly expressed a great deal of
my own thoughts around the climate change debate. The cartoonist (Joel Pett, Lexington
Herald-Leader) depicts an obviously unconvinced audience member at a presentation
where benefits of clean energy are being displayed on the stage screen.
- World's
mayors tackle climate change on their own
Dec 14, 2009 - Charles J.
Hanley and Jan M. Olsen - The Associated Press
It isn't easy getting Italy's
city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to
ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen," says an Italian environmental official.
- Wind
energy can meet 65 percent of tabled 2020 emissions cuts by rich nations: GWEC
Dec
14, 2009 - Xinhua
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) on Monday released
calculations showing that wind energy alone could achieve up to 65 percent of
the emissions reductions pledges by industrialized nations.
- Solar
industry groups release report in Copenhagen
Dec 14, 2009 - LA Times
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference enters its second week in
Copenhagen, several international solar organizations released a report today
summarizing solar power goals around the
world.
- Copenhagen
talks a four-corner fight
Dec 14, 2009 - grist.org
The UN
climate talks which wrap on December 18 now rest essentially on brokering a consensus
between four key players.
- The
Outrageous Complexity of This Enterprise
Dec 14, 2009 - Kate Brash
- The Earth Institute
This is the seventeenth of a continuing series
of essays and interviews from Earth Institute scientists on the prospects for
a global climate-change treaty. Check with us daily for news and perspectives,
and to make comments, as events unfold throughout the Copenhagen meetings.
- Monitor
Climate Pledges on New UNEP Site
Dec 14, 2009 - Stephen Meddenger,
Porto Alegre - treehugger
The United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP) unveiled a new Web site that allows users
to track the promises of countries to reduce the emission
of greenhouse gases. The Web site is currently following the pledges made
by 27 members of the European Union and more than 25 other nations--and is updated
as more proposals are made at COP15.
The executive director of UNEP, Achim Steiner, said that from now on anyone can
follow, from the comfort of their own home, plans and policies of governments
in the area of combating global
warming.
- Interior
Secretary Outlines How to Use North American Continent to Combat Climate Change
Dec 11, 2009 - David Biello - Scientific American
U.S. forests and soils
store some 90 billion metric tons of carbon, or 50 years worth of present U.S.
emissions from fossil
fuels, according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. As negotiators
here at the United Nations' climate summit continue to struggle to draft a global
agreement to cut greenhouse
gas emissions—including efforts to reduce deforestation and protect
natural sinks—the U.S. Department of Interior is transforming the business
of public lands and waters to help combat climate
change.
- American
and European CEOs Urge Climate Commitment in Copenhagen
Dec 11, 2009
- Business Wire
Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive
officers of leading U.S. companies, and European Round Table of Industrialists
(ERT), a forum of leaders of major European-headquartered, multi-national industrial
and technological companies, today released a common set of principles necessary
to slow, stop and reverse greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as soon as possible.
In the first trans-Atlantic business agreement of its kind, the groups call for
long-term GHG commitments from all major emitters, appropriate action from all
other countries and global common reporting standards.
- Soros
Finds Cash Supply for Climate Aid
Dec 10, 2009 - Andrew C. Revkin
- The New York Times
As climate treaty negotiators continued to tussle
over how much rich countries should pay to help poor ones deal with climate risks,
preserve forests and adopt non-polluting energy technology, the financier George
Soros appeared on the sidelines Thursday to identify a new pot of $100 billion
that could help pay the bills.
- EPA
chief: U.S. making up for lost time
Dec 9, 2009 - Juliet Eilperin
- Washington Post
COPENHAGEN--The United States has been "fighting to
make up for lost time" in the fight against global warming since President Obama
took office, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson said
Wednesday.
- U.S.
could reduce gas emissions by up to 29% by 2020, report says
Dec 8,
2009 - The Associated Press
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could be cut
up to 29 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels if all gas-cutting measures contained
in bills currently under deliberation at Congress are implemented, a private-sector
think tank report says.
- 40
percent emissions cut in Europe feasible: study
Dec 8, 2009 - Xinhau
Despite
the European Union's commitment of a 20-percent cut in emissions by 2020, Europe
in fact can achieve at least a 40-percent reduction, according to a new study.
- $30
bil. set to help developing world cut CO2
Dec 8, 2009 - McClatchy-Tribune
Regional News - Hiroko Kono The Yomiuri Shimbun
Developed nations at the
U.N. climate change conference are set to agree on providing $10 billion a year
for three years from 2010 to developing nations striving to achieve greenhouse
gas reductions, sources said.
- GE
chief hopes Copenhagen leads to US clean energy
Dec 8, 2009 - The
Associated Press
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt said Tuesday he
hopes the Copenhagen conference on climate change leads the United States to develop
a green energy policy to grow the economy.
- Copenhagen
climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak
Dec 8, 2009 -
John Vidal - guardian.co.uk
Developing countries react furiously to leaked
draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's
negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol.
- Top
5 Issues at the Copenhagen Climate Conference
Dec 8, 2009 - Kent Garber
- US. News
For the next two weeks, until December 18, officials from
more than 190 countries will be gathering in Copenhagen to write a new treaty
on climate change. For much of the year, there have been questions about whether
the conference would come together and, if so, what it could accomplish at a time
when much of the world is preoccupied with the global recession. In recent weeks,
however, many of the world's economic powerhouses and biggest polluters, including
the United States and China, have said they're serious about hashing out an agreement.
Of course, with so many countries attending, "success" can mean different things
to different people: Some want a political agreement; others want a legally binding
treaty.
- Exactly
What is COP15?
Dec 7, 2009 - Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D. - Utili Point
For the next two weeks, the global media will undoubtedly spotlight the United
Nations Climate Change Conference being held here in Copenhagen, Denmark. Without
a doubt, the eventual outcome of COP15 is likely to have a significant impact
on both you as an individual and your company. Indeed, if the kind of agreement
envisaged by, for example, the European Union (EU) is reached, it is likely to
have huge global economic, political and social ramifications and it will dramatically
change our world and the way we live. However, while some form of agreement is
virtually certain to emerge from Copenhagen, the actual shape and nature of the
agreement has yet to be determined. So what exactly is at stake this next two
weeks in Copenhagen and how did we arrive at this point?
- Under
Banner of Urgency, Delegates Tackle Policy
Dec 7,2009 - Andrew C.
Revkin and Tom Zeller Jr. and James Kanter - The New York Times
Two mock
gateways set up by environmental campaigners — a fiery red one symbolizing
the perils of climate
change and a green one representing an international climate accord to address
it — greeted delegates on Monday as they filed into a conference center
here.
- Climate
scientist gets blunt on trading scheme
Dec 7, 2009 - Shelly T - civilianism.com
The Copenhagen climate summit got off to a big start on
December 7th with many meetings and opening statements.
- Climate
summit produces greenhouse gas
Dec 7, 2009 - UPI
British
researchers said the 12-day U.N. climate change summit in Denmark will generate
as much greenhouse gas as an African nation.
- E.P.A.
Sets Carbon Crackdown
Dec 7, 2009 - John M. Broder - Green Inc.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will complete its determination
that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving
the way for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, power plants,
factories refineries and other major sources.
- Copenhagen
climate conference kicks off
Dec 7, 2009 - David Biello
To be or not to be? That is the question. Will 192 world governments agree in
the next two weeks on a framework to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and thereby
combat climate change? Or will they dither and divide at the Copenhagen
climate summit, as they did with previous efforts, including the ineffectual
Kyoto Protocol?
- Copenhagen
climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'
Dec 7, 2009 - The Guardian
This editorial calling for action from world
leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world
in 20 languages.
- End
the Politics. Let Scientists and Engineers Lead
Dec 3, 2009 - The
Earth Institute
This is the fifth of a continuing series of essays and
interviews from Earth Institute scientists on the prospects for a global climate-change
treaty. Check with us daily for news and perspectives, and to make comments, as
events unfold throughout the Copenhagen meetings.
- Why
Copenhagen will, and should, fail
Dec 3, 2009 - Kevin Krajick - The
Earth Institute
This is the sixth of a continuing series of essays and
interviews from Earth Institute scientists on the prospects for a global climate-change
treaty. Check with us daily for news and perspectives, and to make comments, as
events unfold throughout the Copenhagen meetings.
- "New
World Wide Web” Key to Fighting Climate Change, Expert Says
Mar 3, 2009 - Michael Powers - terrawatts.com
The key to fighting climate
change is for the U.S. to take a leadership role in promoting a “new world
wide web of electricity,” according to Michael Powers, board member and
spokesman for Global Energy Network Institute, a non-profit research and education
group based in San Diego.
- 'Copenhagen Diagnosis' offers a grim update to the IPCC's climate science
Nov 25, 2009 - Guardian Enviroment Network
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a kick in the pants today from members who say the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported. From Grist, part of the Guardian Environment Network
- Complex
Models, Simple Solutions
Dec 18, 2009 - Gavin Schmidt - Earth Institute
This
is the twenty-ninth of a continuing series of essays and interviews from Earth
Institute scientists on the prospects for a global climate-change treaty. Check
with us daily for news and perspectives, and to make comments, as events unfold
throughout the Copenhagen meetings
- 'Copenhagen Diagnosis' offers a grim update to the IPCC's climate science
Nov 25, 2009 - Guardian Enviroment Network
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a kick in the pants today from members who say the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported. From Grist, part of the Guardian Environment Network
- Complex
Models, Simple Solutions
Dec 18, 2009 - Gavin Schmidt - Earth Institute
This
is the twenty-ninth of a continuing series of essays and interviews from Earth
Institute scientists on the prospects for a global climate-change treaty. Check
with us daily for news and perspectives, and to make comments, as events unfold
throughout the Copenhagen meetings.
|