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U.S.: missing R's and the point

The Climate Post: The gods must be crazy 1
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago Eric Roston takes a walk through the week's climate news -- and the problems facing India.
By the numbers—data highlights on poverty and population 1
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago In Chapter 7 of the recently released Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown lays out the Plan B goals for eradicating poverty and stabilizing population.
Indian Prime Minister says green technology should be shared 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh argued Thursday that innovations in "green" technology should be shared with developing countries in much the same fashion as HIV/AIDS drugs.
India and China sign pre-Copenhagen climate change pact 0
Posted 1 month ago India and China put aside a diplomatic spat to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday to cooperate on climate change leading up to crucial talks in Copenhagen.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: U.S. to Kyoto Protocol: just not that into you 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The U.S. Senate is looking at new climate change legislation as the COP-15 global talks in Copenhagen approach this December. These two stories have fed off and driven each other all year. That they are happening together offers a clear view of just how stark differences are on what the U.S. should do.
Letter from Europe

On climate, leading from the front (for a change) 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Something unusual seems to be happening in the struggle to wake the world up to the reality of climate change. Almost unprecedented for an environmental issue, national leaders appear to be out ahead of public opinion in their respective countries.
India’s 1.1 billion move to feed-in tariffs 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago The world's largest single political jurisdiction to date, India, has made a strategic move to use a comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy potential.
A Walk Through the Week's Climate News

The Climate Post: Gentlemen, start your lawsuits 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago First Things First: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation that if approved would force the largest industrial emitters, including utilities, energy-intensive manufacturing, and refineries, to invest in the cleanest available technology for new projects or major renovations.
The Agrichemical Revolutionary

Thoughts on the legacy of Norman Borlaug 14
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
One of the most ironic things about the obituaries celebrating Norman Borlaug is the idea that his agricultural innovations made countries like Mexico and India "self-sufficient" in food production. Actually, these nations became perilously dependent on foreign input suppliers for their food security.
India says not a disaster if Copenhagen climate talks fail 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
India's environment minister said the country will not agree to binding emission targets and that it would not be a disaster if global climate change talks in December fail.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: A climate for monkey business 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A "tragedy of the commons," Chinese steps toward renewable energy, watermelon diesel, and other pure monkey business in this week's climate news.
parliament fights coal, tribes fight mountaintop removal

India says: Take this mine and shove it 0
Posted 3 months ago
Members of parliament in India from various political parties put aside their differences and called on the Prime Minister to stop a coal mine in a forest reserve.
EP in the FT

Glaciers, cheetahs, and nukes, oh my! 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Financial Times South Asia Bureau Chief James Lamont has written a flood of environment-as-political-dialogue stories this week!
Save the world? Yes or No?

Citizens want their leaders to make climate a higher priority, new poll finds 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Americans showed the least interest of 19 countries in asking their government to make climate change a higher priority. But there's encouraging news too!
free bird, free trade?

Can trade policy and climate policy work hand-in-hand? 4
Posted 4 months ago
This past weekend, while traveling in India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received the message, courteous but firm, that India has no intention of capping carbon.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Smalls steps and giant leaps 3
Posted 4 months ago
Hillary Clinton visited India, which sees an increasing value in clean tech. Congress prepares for summer recess as Copenhagen climate talks loom ever closer, and George Will continues to test the limits of journalistic integrity. It's all in a week's worth of climate news.
Clean Energy Economy

Is China winning the clean energy race? 7
Posted 4 months ago
Industrialized nations may find themselves borrowing and begging for new technologies that China has been busy perfecting all along.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Pools of oil, plumes of gas 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The Washington-to-Beijing diplomatic shuttle shows no sign of slowing down. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited China this week to prod collaboration on clean energy technology. Chu announced the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a partnership that will study how to capture carbon dioxide emissions and trap them underground. And that's just the beginning of this week's climate news.
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.
Wind: still enough to save the world 14
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Back in 2008, Christina Archer and Mark Z Jacobson published data showing worldwide commercial wind potential exceeded world energy use by many times. A new peer reviewed study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now confirms his, and further shows that this potential is not limited to a lucky few.