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Passionate but confused A response to Shellenberger & Nordhaus from David Hawkins of NRDC	David Roberts	28 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from David Hawkins, director of the Climate Center at the National Resources Defense Council. ----- Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are two passionate but confused individuals. They lambaste 'environmentalists' for being fixated with a 'pollution paradigm' that operates by 'limiting human power' and by 'increasing the cost of dirty energy.' This approach, they argue, will not solve global warming. What is really needed is a ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Quick, before the people who really mean it show up! U.S. industry may well help push climate legislation through the Senate this session	David Roberts	28 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Joe Lieberman says that comprehensive climate legislation in the Senate is more likely this session than people think (sub. rqd.), and that debate will probably get underway later this year or early next. But the reason he gives isn't exactly comforting: The Connecticut independent said U.S. industry has shifted on the global warming debate and is ready for regulation. "They want the rules of the road to be set by a Congress with the current political make ...
Topics: business, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Bill Clinton vs. the World Bank Clinton's push for sustainable development dismissed by World Bank prez	Joseph Romm	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The opening plenary was fascinating. Clinton explained how CGI commitments had already avoided 20,000,000 tons of greenhouse gases. Then he tried to get Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, to realize that the 'Bank can show people options for sustainable development.' Zoellick, however, was full of little more than platitudes, saying we need to address 'questions of adaptation and mitigation,' and noting that there is a sensitivity in the developing world t ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, international politics, politics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Environmentalism's existential moment Shellenberger & Nordhaus respond to critics	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and 'The Death of Environmentalism.' Nordhaus and Shellenberger are managing directors at American Environics and the founders of the Breakthrough Institute. ----- This month the world celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the international treaty that phased out ozone-destroying chemicals. For environ ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics (all these topics)

Charity won't cut it Private sector money will not solve the climate crisis	David Roberts	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The Clinton Global Initiative is ongoing. Rich folk and businesses are committing large sums of money to solving global problems like education, public health, and climate change. Matt injects a welcome note of realism: In those fields, it really seems to me that Bill Clinton could do much more good using his charisma and standing to try to convince rich guys and executives at big companies to take a more enlightened attitude toward the political process, to retu ...
Topics: business, climate, politics (all these topics)

From Campus: Get hip to social entrepreneurship It's a hot topic on campus these days	Nathan Wyeth	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
As an undergrad at Brown University and a veteran organizer with the Sierra Student Coalition, Nathan Wyeth has his ear to the ground on campus sustainability issues. In this occasional column for Grist, Wyeth will report on what's afoot at the campus grassroots level and how he and his fellow students are making their voices heard. ----- A debate has been swirling on Gristmill for the past few weeks over the role of voluntary actions versus government policy in solvi ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, education (all these topics)

We Really Needed Some Disclosure More companies disclosing and mitigating emissions, says new report		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:44 AM on 25 Sep 2007 Many corporations are recognizing the impact of climate change on business as usual, and in response are disclosing and working to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions, says a new report from the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project. The group's fifth annual survey of the world's 500 largest companies boasted a 75 percent response rate; of those, 80 percent of busine ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Must-read climate report from Lehman Brothers Climate policy and its implications for business	Joseph Romm	23 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Lehman Brothers has just released a terrific report, 'The Business of Climate Change II.' The theme is, 'Policy is accelerating, with major implications for companies and investors'; but the piece has a lot of breadth, with cogent comments on everything from the social/damage cost of carbon, to auctioning vs. grandfathering, to the Stern Report. Here are some extended excerpts:What are the chances for a global climate agreement? The probability of some sort of i ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

Is this an emergency? Is global warming the moral equivalent of World War II?	Jon Rynn	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
From Al Gore to Lester Brown, writers concerned about preventing the worst of global warming have proposed that our 'commitment will need to be of a scale comparable to what we did during World War II.' But the parallels never go beyond a vague reference. PBS is about to run a series, premiering this Sunday, called 'The War,' so it might be a good time to think a little more deeply about the connection. There are two main questions that need to be asked: Is global wa ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Mr. Clinton goes to the public-goods markets The promise of governmental buyers' clubs	Jon Rynn	19 Sep 2007	Gristmill
We often wonder whether the government is better suited to solving many of our problems, or whether the market should take the lead. The current issue of The Atlantic Monthly has an article concerning the efforts of Bill Clinton's foundation which addresses this issue. The article shows how governments can work with markets for the benefit of large numbers of people and the planet by guaranteeing demand for a particular product or service. By doing this in the long-te ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Climate-Risky Business Investors petition SEC to require companies to disclose climate risk		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:09 AM on 18 Sep 2007 Activists, investors, and activist investors have teamed up to try to compel the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to require publicly traded companies to disclose their climate-change risks. Under current law, the SEC requires companies to detail potential risks to investors in their annual and quarterly reports to the agency. The activists, armed with a petition, ...
Topics: business, climate, news, United States (all these topics)

Discover Brilliant: The business of climate change	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The final session of the day (hooray) is about "the business of climate change." On the panel: Climate Change Journal, Grant Ferrier, Editor (Moderator) Climate Solutions, K.C. Golden, Policy Director Sterling Planet, Alden Hathaway II, Senior VP, Business Development Environmental Resources Trust, Gordon Smith, EcoLands Director We start with Smith, who begins by, of all things, talking about forestry credits in carbon markets! He says they aren' ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Ecomagination and coal As long as GE funds coal, its net impact is far from green	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Let me pull a few excerpts from a recent WSJ story on the progress of GE's much-touted "ecomagination" campaign: 'I don't want to change the economic flow of the company,' [CEO Jeffrey] Immelt says. So GE continues to sell coal-fired steam turbines and is delving deeper into oil-and-gas production. Meanwhile, its finance unit seeks out coal-related investments including power plants, which are a leading cause of carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. ... ...
Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Sky Trust explained Peter Barnes looks at carbon-capping methods	Gar Lipow	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Peter Barnes has a guest post on the Step It Up blog giving a good brief description of how a Sky Trust would work: Carbon capping comes in three varieties: cap-and-trade, cap-and-auction, and cap-and-recycle. In cap-and-trade, permits are given free to historic polluters. This is called 'grandfathering.' The more a company polluted in the past, the more permits it gets in the future -- not just once, but year after year. As the descending cap raises th ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

Parsing the carbon storage debate 'Carbon-friendly' utilities may not necessarily be in the public interest	Sean Casten	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Following the discussion under David's latest post about Edwards' position on carbon capture at coal plants, I thought it appropriate to point out a few things about the electric business that are critical to this debate -- but not widely appreciated. An electric utility is a weird amalgam of lots of historic political philosophies -- most of which are in direct contradiction to modern ideas, but are difficult to repeal.According to the modern pro-market ideal, busine ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, climate, energy (all these topics)

Markey and the FTC Rep. Markey asks the Federal Trade Commission to investigate voluntary carbon offsets	Sean Casten	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Rep. Markey has asked the FTC to investigate whether or not the sale of voluntary carbon offsets violates the Guides for the Use of Evaluating Environmental Marketing Claims, as laid out by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has responded and agreed to commence an investigation, noting that: The FTC staff has been monitoring this nascent market as part of the Commission's ongoing consumer protection programs in the energy and environmental areas. The carbon offset ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, Ed Markey, energy, politics (all these topics)

Interview with Thomas Casten, part four Making money cutting carbon	David Roberts	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
DR: There hasn't been any public pressure to change the electricity system. Most people don't even know how electricity is made. It comes out of the wall like magic. TC: You are so right. In Ontario, they did a massive peer-reviewed study to identify the health and environmental effects of making power with coal, and what they thought would be saved if they replaced the coal with gas or nuclear. They talked about being able to save $3 billion a year in health a ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Charlie and the Optimism Factory Florida's governor names climate panel, talks up green economy		16 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Charlie and the Optimism Factory Florida's governor names climate panel, talks up green economy Used to be the greenest thing in Florida was a golf course -- or maybe an old lady's dye job gone slightly awry. But something's happening in that sunshiny state. This week, Gov. Charlie Crist (R) followed up on an early-summer commitment by picking 21 business, community, and environmental leaders to serve on his Acti ...
Topics: business, climate, Florida, heroes, news (all these topics)

U.S. taxpayers are paying to increase carbon emissions in the developing world Makes total sense!	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill
On the one hand, Bush and the Republicans say we're helpless to do anything about global warming until China and India act. On the other hand, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. are funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to huge corporations (think Halliburton and Bechtel) to help them construct carbon-intensive hard infrastructure projects: According to their own reports, the two agencies approved projects in recent years that an ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Can markets solve global warming? One economist says no	David Roberts	11 Aug 2007	Gristmill
James Galbraith gets to the heart of the dilemma facing climate change economics: The market's real failure is that it allows for no signal from the future to the present, either from the conditions that will exist 30 years hence or from the people who will be alive and working then. The question becomes: Can we really create a market in which those far-off voices are effectively heard? He ponders the solution offered by mainstream economists, mainly carbon taxes a ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, business (all these topics)

Same carbon credits sold twice (as CDM and on voluntary market) Double counting does not legally qualify as fraud	Gar Lipow	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The ENDS Report -- July 2007, issue 390 ($ub. rqd): ENDS has learned that chemical corporation Rhodia is using carbon credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to meet voluntary corporate targets -- only to sell them at a profit to be counted again elsewhere. Cement company Lafarge has not ruled out the same practice. Companies like Rhodia can use CDM credits to comply with mandatory targets under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. But they can also use t ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Why Do I Still Feel So Hollow? GE unveils carbon-offset credit card, other companies pondering same move		25 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Why Do I Still Feel So Hollow? GE unveils carbon-offset credit card, other companies pondering same move Some people say you can't shop your way to happiness, but they haven't met the new GE credit card. Yes, the company that brought us "ecomagination" has imagined a way into wallets everywhere. The GE Money Earth Rewards Platinum MasterCard -- hang on, have to take a belly-laugh ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, green living, news, shopping (all these topics)

Post-vacation links Stuff I missed	David Roberts	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
There are a gazillion things I missed over vacation, or meant to post about before vacation, that I'll never have time to return to. Thus: a link post! I missed the MoveOn town hall on climate and energy. You can watch the candidate presentations here. Bill Scher has a pretty good rundown of who said what, here. Our guide to the candidates on these issues is here. FYI, MoveOn members voted John Edwards the winner. I doubt I'll have a chance to read Chris Mooney's ne ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

More rules of the road for offsets: Common sense is good Measure, monitor, reduce, offset	Adam Stein	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Haven't had enough on offsets yet? Good. Romm's zeroth rule of carbon offsets is that you should "do everything reasonably possible to reduce your own emissions" before buying offsets. At first blush, this reads like a memo from Obviousland, a staunch statement in favor of apple pie. Pretty much every marketer of carbon offsets heavily stresses that offset purchases should go hand-in-hand with serious attempts at conservation, and I certainly agree. So far, s ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Sustainability gets a warmer embrace from U.S. companies Mindy S. Lubber of CERES looks at how far we've come and what the future might hold	Grist	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the GreenMoney Journal asked leaders in the realms of green business and socially responsible investing to forecast 15 years into the future. How green will our economy be in 2022? GreenMoney's anniversary issue features responses from Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm, futurist Hazel Henderson, and others. Mindy Lubber. Here, reprinted with permission, is a view from Mindy S. Lubbe ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

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