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Sneak peek at Time's cover story Mag's green issue exalts cap-and-trade	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I now seem to be on some media distribution list to gin up early PR. Green publicists of the world, bring it on! Here are links to key stories (plus some summaries, from Time): This Week's Cover Features a Green Border -- Only the Second Issue in TIME's 85-Year History Without the Trademarked Red Border (New York, April 17, 2008) -- In this week's issue, TIME managing editor Richard Stengel writes in his Letter to Readers, 'This is our latest environment ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, international politics, magazines, politics (all these topics)

Dr. Hansen to Dr. Merkel Carbon is forever -- so ban new traditional coal plants now	Joseph Romm	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Another clear statement (PDF) from the nation's top climate scientist on the scientific need for a dramatic change in global coal policy -- this time addressed to the German chancellor, a fellow physicist. He points out that: The fact that energy and climate advisors, in Germany, the United States, and elsewhere, do not understand the problem is starkly illustrated by repetition of goals to reduce CO2 emissions by a percentage (say 40% by 2020, 80% by 2050, or o ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate science, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

Where do we go from here? The Bali meeting, and the lessons learned	Tom Athanasiou	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
It's important, this time, to draw conclusions, and to do so publicly. Because Bali has taken us -- barely and painfully -- over a line and into a new and even more difficult level in the climate game we'll be playing for the rest of our lives. In fact, it's not too much to say that, with the realizations of the last year and their culmination at the 13th Conference of Parties, the game has, finally, belatedly, begun in earnest. First up, we knew going into Bal ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, politics, international politics, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Annals of irritants, part two Arlen Specter proclaims importance of fighting climate change in Bali; votes against it in D.C.	David Roberts	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In a letter to the president (PDF), 52 members of Congress expressed their disapproval of the U.S. stance in Bali: The clear implication is that the United States will refuse to agree to any language putting the United States on an established path toward scientifically-based emission limits ... We write to express our strong disagreement with these positions and to urge you to direct the U.S. negotiating team to work together with other countries to complete ...
Topics: climate, Bali 07, politics, international politics, energy (all these topics)

The Bali is in our court US reps to present unfinished energy bill to UNFCCC	Youth Movement	09 Dec 2007	Gristmill
When a few members of U.S. Congress come to Bali next week to meet with delegations from all round the world, they'll have something in hand: a first step in the direction of climate change legislation from the U.S.35mpg fuel economy standards and 15% renewable energy requirements from utilities may not seem like all that much, but for the rest of the world's leaders, who have been holding their collective breath, it's a twitch of life from a government long considere ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The youth are back and badder than ever The real story at Bali	Youth Movement	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In 2005, at the U.N.'s Montreal Climate Negotiations, a ragtag but sizable delegation showed up at the conference, desperate to make sure that the world heard their call for climate action. The event proved to be a formative time for people involved in the youth climate movement, and many date its launch to that time. In a conference notable for acronyms and obscure policy jargon, the youth activism was like a breath of fresh air. While delegates bemoaned th ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Bags of coal given as party favors Fossil Awards shame obstructionist delegates at Bali talks	Youth Movement	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
You may have heard about the Fossil Awards given at the United Nations Bali climate negotiations. A collaboration between a number of youth delegations and Avaaz.org, the awards are given to nations whose delegates have obstructed progress during the course of the talks. Here's a first-hand account of the first daily Fossil Awards ceremony, when Canada won the infamous prize. Yesterday, Japan managed to win first, second, and third place for threatening to pull out of ...
Topics: Bali 07, Canada, climate, energy, international politics, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Red List not enough Experts push for an intergovernmental biodiversity panel	Maywa Montenegro	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
For this enviro, Christmas is shaping up pretty nicely this year. Today, as post-Kyoto discussions commence in Bali, Australia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, sweeping aside decades of Howard's curmudgeonly climate skepticism. Another unexpected gift came last month, when a group of 80 experts convened in France to mull over the future of biodiversity. Their consensus? That we need to establish a new intergovernmental panel -- akin to the IPCC -- to begin aggressiv ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Rational expectations Winning the battle in Bali, and then winning the war	Tom Athanasiou	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Since COP13 / MOP3 -- hereafter 'Bali' -- has begun, I thought I'd send a brief note on expectations and strategy. Brief because there's too much to say, so I shouldn't try. Besides, I'll try to post again in a few days. Here's the thing: Bali is freighted with terrific expectations, which are entirely appropriate given the state of the science. We now 'know,' insofar as we can know these things, that we've got to do everything to hold total temperature increa ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Bali eve Delegates of all stripes prepare for the trip to Bali	Youth Movement	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Post by Kelly Blynn, Step It Up 2007 Around the world, an estimated 10,000 bureaucrats, ministers, activists, climate skeptics, industry lobbyists, and students are packing their bags and making last-minute preparations for their descent upon the small Indonesian island of Bali, for two weeks of hashing it out on what the world's going to do next on the issue of global warming. Anyone who has anything (good or bad) to do with this problem will be there -- w ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, Indonesia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Somebody didn't get the environment vs. economy memo Over 150 companies worldwide sign climate petition in advance of Bali	David Roberts	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
More than 150 companies worldwide, representing some $4 trillion in market valuation, have signed the Bali Communiqu�: As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting: The economic and geopolitical costs of unabated climate change could be very severe and globally disruptive. All countries and economies will be affected, but it will be the poorest countries that will su ...
Topics: Bali 07, business, climate, economy, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

OPEC joins Bush, Gingrich, and Lomborg in climate technology strategy Research vs. cap-and-trade	Joseph Romm	20 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Yes, OPEC is now 'pledging $750 million for research into climate change technology' (while opposing a cap-and-trade system). [Note to President Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Bj�rn Lomborg -- it ain't a good sign when your climate strategy is the same as OPEC's.] OPEC, however, seems a tad confused on just what a technology-based strategy could do for oil: OPEC is worried that a new international accord could cramp fast-growing Middle East economies, where oil use ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, international politics, politics, scientific research (all these topics)

Climate change and Pakistan's priorities Climate change mitigation is related to building democracy and decreasing poverty	James Dailey	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
While the climate change "issue" is covered frequently in the press and is implicitly or explicitly part of the U.S. presidential campaign, for developing countries it is just one of many pressing issues. For the man on the street, at least in many of the countries I visit, climate change is important but not urgent. The same could be said of many other issues, of course, but what distinguishes climate change is that it is perceived as "an act o ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate equity, energy, international politics, Pakistan, politics (all these topics)

I read PDFs so you don't have to, part kazillion A new sustainable development report from an international panel -- only sexy and exciting!	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The InterAcademy Council, a group representing 150 scientific academies around the world, has just issued a new report: "Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future." I know what you're thinking: hot damn, a long-ass new PDF! The report, commissioned by the governments of Brazil and China, "lays out the science, technology and policy roadmap for developing energy resources to drive economic growth in both developed and developing countries ...
Topics: politics, climate, energy, international politics (all these topics)

Why Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize Gore's effort to focus attention on climate change supports the goal of preventing wars	Grist	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. It was originally published on Salon.com. What's world peace got to do with global warming? Perhaps everything. Or it will if things don't change fast -- if, in 10 or 20 or 40 years devastating floods and droughts displace millions of refugees and spur nations and tribes to desperate bloodletting. At which point, no one will have the slightest doubt why members of the renowned Scandinavian founda ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Bush climate summit: Greenwashing vs. myth-busting Foreign media take a more discerning look at Bush's climate meetings this week	Joseph Romm	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Once again, the foreign media is not fooled by Bush's PR stunt, while the U.S. media buys the White House line. The U.K.'s The Independent labeled this a 'Greenwashing Climate Summit' in its headline, and opened their story with: For the first time in 16 years, a major environmental conference opens in Washington, hosted by the Bush administration. But no concrete results are expected, and that -- say European participants -- is the point of this high-level meeting. ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Climate week in New York comes to an end The U.N. summit and Clinton Global Initiative are over, and where did they get us?	Brian Beutler	28 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This week's New York Climate Change Bonanza has come to an end. It's always a good thing when powerful people hold high-profile event after high-profile event dedicated to amplifying the profile of the climate change crisis and then solving it, as they did this week with the U.N.'s climate summit and the Clinton Global Initiative. But there's still the question of efficacy. On Monday, for instance, I sat and watched as literally dozens of world leade ...
Topics: climate, energy, international politics, 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)

Clinton Global Initiative: The view from China China's foreign minister talks climate and development	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi focused on climate change during his moment in the CGI spotlight yesterday: For developing countries like China, whose level of economic development is still low and whose people are yet to live a better life, the most depressing issue for them is to grow the economy and raise people's living standards. Efforts to tackle climate change should promote economic development and not be pursued at the expense of the economic dev ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Discover Brilliant: Energy security A strange and old-fashioned way to start a hip, cutting edge conference	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I'm in a session about 'Energy, Climate Change & Resource Nationalism' with General Bruce Wright, commander of U.S. Air Force in Japan, and Dr. Liam Fox, Shadow Secretary of State of Defence and Member of Parliament in the UK. These are old-school guys, fairly conservative, and they're painting a grim picture. China is ravenous, buying up energy resources in a geostrategic way, growing its military capability. Russia is practically owned and operated by Gazprom an ...
Topics: climate, energy, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics)

Backseat policy-making Ex-heads of state tell current heads of state how to solve climate crisis	Glenn Hurowitz	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If you're into exclusive clubs, check this one out: the Club de Madrid, membership limited to former heads of state. (Actually, even heads of state can get blackballed.) Those former heads of state are trying to get their successors to do what they couldn't and tackle the climate crisis. In collaboration with the United Nations Foundation, the Club today released their recommendations for what the world should do on the next round of climate crisis. The ex-heads ackno ...
Topics: climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

YearlyKos: My message to the netroots Listen up	David Roberts	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I thought, as a final post on Yearly Kos (about which I fear my posts are woefully inadequate -- it really was a fascinating sociopolitical event, worthy of better analysis than I'm able to give it -- read Ezra Klein's wrap-up), I'd recap in somewhat more elaborate terms what I said at my global warming panel. These are points that will be familiar to Grist readers, but perhaps it's worth bringing them together. A note: these were explicitly conceived as messages to th ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: New prime minister steps up to the plate A glimpse of environmental policies to come from Gordon Brown	Peter Madden	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Britain has a new prime minister. After leading the country for 10 years, Tony Blair has stepped down. Gordon Brown, Blair's number two for the past decade, takes up the reins. Brown is viewed as solid and dependable, if a little dour. He is slightly to the left of Blair on most issues, though he has also pushed through a lot of bu ...
Topics: climate, energy, Gordon Brown, international politics, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Al Gore's call to action An editorial in the NYT	David Roberts	30 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore:... we should demand that the United States join an international treaty within the next two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90 percent in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy Earth....We should aim to complete this global treaty by the end of 2009 -- and not wait until 2012 as currently planned....A new treaty will still have differentiated commitments, of course; countries will be ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Time to put the notion of 'energy independence' to bed So says Jim Henley, and yours truly	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Jim Henley says that "energy independence" is the most ridiculous phrase in the American political lexicon: The concept of "energy independence" is a sham. I think it's generally code for "Then we can stop being nice to the fvcking A-rabs," but this gets gussied up with terms like "instability" and references to Hugo Chavez, who has been around a lot less long than the Magic Words. (It is often also code for " ...
Topics: climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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