John Podesta’s Posts

• Senate should consider deforestation as part of climate bill 2

  Posted 2 weeks, 6 days agoFar too little attention has been paid to the role tropical deforestation has in warming the planet. Protecting tropical forests is an economic imperative, argue Lincoln Chafee and John Podesta.

• A Pittsburgh Protocol

  G20 needs to advance the global agenda on climate change 1

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe world’s leading economic powers remain inactive in preventing an increase in the serious impacts of climate change.

• The clean-energy investment agenda 6

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe United States is having the wrong public debate about global warming.

• A New International Report on the Prospects for a Global Deal on Clean Technology Transfer

  Governments need to lead the breakthrough on technology 6

  Posted 4 months ago

  The Obama administration once again convened a Major Economies Forum in Italy this week after the G-8 meeting, which included the world’s 17 major carbon emitters, to press forward on a global deal on climate change and the transformation to a clean-energy economy. One of the most important announcements to come out of this meeting is the formation of a formal “Global Partnership” on “low-carbon, climate-friendly technologies.” This program aims to double the current commitments on technology assistance by 2015 and sets a deadline for mapping actions for achieving a range of important goals on this cluster of issues by… Read More

• Waxman-Markey: We’d better try to get what we need 3

  Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago

  Once again Mick Jagger is right: “You can't always get what you want/But if you try sometimes you just might find/You get what you need.”

  The House of Representatives is poised for its first-ever floor debate and series of votes on a landmark measure to reduce global warming pollution. This bill is revolutionary in its intent and, while imperfect in its means, it deserves the support of progressives.

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