by John Podesta
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Senate should consider deforestation as part of climate bill 2
Posted 1 month ago Far 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. Read More -
A Pittsburgh Protocol
G20 needs to advance the global agenda on climate change 1
Posted 2 months ago The world’s leading economic powers remain inactive in preventing an increase in the serious impacts of climate change. Read More -
The clean-energy investment agenda 6
Posted 2 months ago The United States is having the wrong public debate about global warming. Read More -
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, 2 weeks 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 5 months 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. Read More
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Change the Rules, Change the Future
New energy rules could unleash an economic boom and help quash climate change 18
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago In 1997, as the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change was being negotiated, the U.S. Senate voted, 95-0, to reject any agreement that "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States." The senators were acting on the widespread fear that the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy would hurt American businesses and cost millions of jobs. Those were the beliefs and the politics of the times.
A blueprint for the future.
Photo: iStockphoto
But times change. Ten years later, it's increasingly clear that it will be
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