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Climate roulette

A scary new climate study will have you saying ‘Oh, shit!’ 16
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago They say that everyone who finally gets it about climate change has an "Oh, shit" moment -- an instant when the full scientific implications become clear and they suddenly realize what a horrifically dangerous situation humanity has created for itself.
The nightingale scenario

HSBC team outlines possible post-Kyoto compromise 2
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago In a new report entitled The Emperor, the Nightingale and the Phoenix, a team of HSBC experts suggests the outlines for a post-Kyoto climate framework that could be agreed to at Copenhagen.
Letter from Europe

Despite Ban Ki-Moon’s complaint, G8 summit produced climate progress 7
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The U.N. secretary-general wasn't happy with the outcome, nor were leaders of major environmental groups. But some observers believe last week's G8 meeting in Italy produced significant progress toward a new international climate treaty.
Making heads or tails of it

Global warming commitments at the G8 and the major economies forum in Italy 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Climate talks at the G8 meeting and the Major Economies Forum have given us cause for some optimism, though there's still a whole lot to get done.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: G8 edition 3
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This week, world leaders came to a landmark climate agreement at the G8 summit in Italy ... or just enjoyed a really good meal or two. Pasta la vista, baby.
Ewe Betcha

The Climate Post: L’Aquila, the Senate, and shrinking sheep 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Conflicting early reports obscured events at a major international summit in L’Aquila, Italy. The Group of Eight has apparently resolved to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, but disagreed on thorny “mid-term targets."
Source Material

Climate and energy sections of G8 statement 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The energy and climate section of the official G8 statement released on July 8, 2009.
Copin' with Copenhagen

What is Obama’s international climate strategy? 9
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
International climate negotiations often seem like some sort of cosmic science fair project -- an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors. There's a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat, but in the end, very little light.

Faith in the UN climate process has dimmed. Joe Romm calls it a "dead man walking." The Copenhagen talks in December are generally discussed with the same dissonant mixture of urgency ("You have to do it in Copenhagen," says UNFCCC chair Yvo de Boer) and fatalism ("There is no movement," says German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel) as the last dozen rounds of international talks.

The Obama administration knows the danger of sclerosis and is working on several fronts to regain a sense of momentum.
Letter from Europe

Britain’s battered leader is set on saving the world 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is widely expected to lose Britain's next national elections, but that's not stopping him from pushing hard to break the logjam over negotiations for a new international climate treaty.
“Two Degrees” of Separation

Obama needs to outline his yardstick on global warming 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
A coalition of major U.S. groups called for the Obama administration to outline its "yardstick" on global warming. What is it that this "scientific and pragmatic" administration will use to measure our efforts to solve global warming pollution?
Letter from Europe

The greening of Sarko 3
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has instituted the western world's most thoroughgoing green program in a country hitherto little known for taking environmental leadership.
Letter from Europe

How do you solve a problem like Silvio? 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Barack Obama has a problem, one he shares with Gordon Brown. And, for that matter, with Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Stephen Harper, and even Lula da Silva. The problem just happens to be prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
We’re number one! 8
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
Bush hits the climate alarm snooze button at G8 6
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
Not everyone jazzed about the G8 climate agreement 2
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
To Half and to Hold

G8 nations agree to cut emissions 50 percent by 2050 (sort of) 3
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
G8 leaders head to Hokkaido where Bush and his sherpa will provide climate guidance 2
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
BP, Shell, Airbus, and other multinationals call for 50 percent emission cuts by 2050 2
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
We Spend That Before Breakfast

Mere $45 trillion needed to tackle climate change, says IEA 0
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
A Cut Below

G8 nations agree on the need to agree on emission cuts 0
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago