Deforestation

Brazil offer to reduce deforestation by 80% 0
Posted 1 month ago
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.
Shifting into High Gear

Wrapping up Climate Week, G20 Outcome & on to Bangkok 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
On to the steel city

Seizing the opportunity: reflections from the U.N. Climate Summit 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Remember, there are five key building blocks for the agreement that emerges from Copenhagen so we need to watch what details are filled in on each of these.
Some Rays of Hope for Global Efforts

Important week for global warming 0
Posted 2 months ago
Today begins a week dubbed because of all the high-level climate discussions that are occurring. And they just all happen to be occurring in the U.S. at an important time for the domestic debate to pass a clean energy and climate bill in the Senate.
Not your daddy’s offsets 6
Posted 2 months ago
A new report, "Forging the Climate Consensus: Domestic and International Offsets" makes clear exactly how important a role high-quality offsets play in maintaining the integrity of climate legislation -- and how they could allow an international climate agreement to achieve far stronger emissions reductions targets than would otherwise be possible.
Sterny Likes It!

Obama administration comes out in support of key international provisions in climate bill 1
Posted 2 months ago
Todd Stern the Special Envoy for Climate Change, just testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on: The Road to Copenhagen and International Climate Agreement.
Sweaty palms

Palm oil, healthy rainforests, and your kitchen 20
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
To avoid trans-fats, a lot of folks are looking into palm oil as a shortening for baking. A reader wants to know: Is this the way forward, eco-wise? Lou Bendrick bakes up an answer.
Is hindsight 20/20?

Learning from past civilizations 2
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
To understand our current environmental dilemma, it helps to look at earlier civilizations that also got into environmental trouble. Our early 21st century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.
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U.S. is starting to make a down payment on funding international climate change efforts 0
Posted 5 months ago
This past Wednesday, the Appropriations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives passed a bill with funding for a "down payment" in helping developing countries deploy clean energy, reduce global warming pollution from tropical deforestation, and support adaptation in the most vulnerable populations around the world.
Hinting (in the State Controlled News) from China

Coming global warming limits in China? 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
News coming out of China provides hints that the country might adopt a domestic limit to reduce their global-warming pollution.
Day 17 in the Sprint to Copenhagen

That status of global warming negotiations in Germany 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The first week of negotiations slowly worked its way through the things that need to be addressed. The pace will need to pick up the rest of the week and, most importantly, the rest of the year if we are to secure a strong agreement in Copenhagen. There's a clock that sits on the front screen of every session that is the “Countdown to Copenhagen,” reminding delegates how little time is left.
Deforestation & Adaptation Texting for Copenhagen

Part 3: Draft negotiating text proposed for Copenhagen agreement 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
A look at the deforestation emissions reduction efforts and adaptation assistance provisions in the draft Copenhagen climate treaty.
VII-E wo0t

Deforestation in Waxman-Markey 1
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
I really like Title VII Part E of the Waxman-Markey bill, which puts aside some pollution permit value to reduce international deforestation.
Loading up our

Putting the US in a Strong Position to Secure an International Climate Agreement: Waxman-Markey Bill 0
Posted 6 months ago
Fix the food chain 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Just the (industry-sponsored) facts

Chevron hires former CNN correspondent to spin report on Amazon destruction 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The New York Times has a great story about Chevron hiring a former CNN reporter to produce a "news" report to counter a 60 Minutes segment on the oil company's contamination of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
A Nobel Effort

Wangari Maathai film shows Kenyan tree planting as political subversion 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Taking Root has more to say about social change than about forest ecology--I’m not sure it even mentions the types of trees being planted. But it makes abundantly clear the connections between environmental health, human rights, and democracy.
The Waxman-Markey discussion draft

Providing the tools to get a strong international climate agreement 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
What do the international provisions in the Waxma/Markey draft bill mean for helping to secure a strong international commitment in Copenhagen this December?
Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders urge action to avoid deforestation 10
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago