December 8, 2012
by Jake Schmidt
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Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC
Last year global emissions of carbon pollution rose to record levels, with declines in some key countries but with rising emissions elsewhere offsetting those declines…. Continue reading
June 24, 2012
by Frances Beinecke
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Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City
When 17-year-old student Brittany Trilford addressed the opening session of the Rio Earth Summit on Wednesday, she urged world leaders to take concrete action to protect the planet.
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May 24, 2012
by Jake Schmidt
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Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC
In Durban, South Africa countries agreed to: launch the negotiations on a new legal agreement to be adopted in 2015, move forward implementation of the agreements reach… Continue reading
May 14, 2012
by Jacob Scherr
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Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC
It is easy to feel depressed about the state of the Rio+20 preparations after the recent two weeks of “informal informal” negotiations at the United Nations … Continue reading
March 20, 2012
by Jacob Scherr
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Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC
With fewer than one hundred days before the start of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, there are reasons to be hopeful about p… Continue reading
January 27, 2012
by Michael Davidson
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Michael Davidson, China Climate Fellow, Washington, DC
Over the last three days here at the UN in New York City, I have heard a lot of criticisms of the “zero” draft outcome document for the June Rio+20 Earth Summit. Countri… Continue reading
January 20, 2012
by Jake Schmidt
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Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC
The global warming negotiations in Durban made important progress, but much more work lies ahead to address global warming. Countries have committed to action and are&n… Continue reading
November 11, 2011
by Carolina Herrera
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Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC
The first of November, more than 600 national governments, NGOs, international agencies and other interested parties submitted their contributions to what will be the first negotia… Continue reading
October 5, 2011
by Jake Schmidt
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Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC
[This post is part of a three-part series on the state of the global warming negotiations in the lead-in to the Ministerial meeting in Durban, South Africa this Decembe… Continue reading
March 30, 2011
by Leila Monroe
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Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco I’ve just returned from a week in paradise where I was immersed in the problem of plastic trash in the ocean. The 5th International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) in Honolulu bro… Continue reading
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by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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In the wee hours of the morning, delegates at the international climate talks in Cancún reached agreement on how to move forward together to fight climate change. Many of us feared that if agreement was not reached during this meeting, we would … Continue reading
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by Heather Allen
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In the first few days here in Cancun at the Climate Talks, European nations announced a series of projects and funding streams designated to fulfill their Copenhagen Accord commitments to ‘fast start climate finance’ to aid developing … Continue reading
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