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Policy Academy 4: Citizens on Petrol IPCC to hammer out summary of climate science for policymakers		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:03 AM on 12 Nov 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Valencia, Spain, to distill the panel's three massive scientific climate-change reports released earlier this year into a concise 25-page summary for the world's governments. Expect environmentalists and others concerned about climate-change's effects to lobby for strong language clearly spelli ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Bloggers at the UN climate confab	David Roberts	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If our own Brian Beutler's blogging from the UN climate meeting isn't sating your ravenous appetite for ... blogging from the UN climate meeting, check out Hill Heat for a roundup of other bloggers at the event and what they've written.
Topics: climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

U.N. Climate Summit: Gore goes grim Gore recites climate woes in speech at U.N.	Brian Beutler	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's address to the U.N. General Assembly today was a much darker affair than I assumed it would be. Given that the stated goal today is to lay the groundwork for international institution-building and unity of vision, I expected he'd take a more inspirational approach. Instead, about three-quarters of his speech was a thorough enumeration of the effects global warming is already having on the planet. Included in his litany of woes: The faster-than-expected ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

How Bush really feels about California's climate efforts White House behind lobbying campaign to undermine California auto-emissions plan, Waxman charges	Brian Beutler	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gave a rather good speech today here at the U.N. climate summit, is famously attempting to cut California's greenhouse-gas emissions. Now come accusations that the White House is behind a lobbying effort to get the U.S. EPA to reject Schwarzenegger's plan to regulate GHGs from cars and trucks. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, got wind of the situation. Writes Jesse Lee in 'The Gavel ...
Topics: California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

U.N. Climate Summit: Heads of state speechify about mitigation Leaders of Chile, Austria, Ecuador, and other countries talk about the climate challenge	Brian Beutler	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Here at today's U.N. Climate Summit in New York, everyone seems to agree that bringing America into a leadership role on climate change is a necessary condition for forestalling the climate change crisis. From my perspective, then, the success or failure of this summit should be judged by its ability to make progress on that front. We've heard from -- among others -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Federal Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer, both of wh ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

U.N. Climate Summit: Free beer with big shots Bloggers and U.N. officials chat, don't quite connect	Brian Beutler	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Sunday night, I along with some other writers attended a U.N. Foundation dinner designed to bring the U.N.'s climate change directors into better contact with members of the online media. As far as accomplishing that goal, I suppose the dinner was a huge success. I and other members of the online media came into contact with some important employees of the U.N.! As to bringing American political writers and U.N. officials to a common understanding of the political p ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Talkin' Latest round of UN climate talks focuses on energy investment	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Just how excited can one get by the latest round of international talks on climate change? This one is focused on business, specifically energy investment: A new report by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change says additional investments of about $210 billion a year will be needed - mostly in the developing world - to maintain greenhouse gas emissions at their current levels until 2030. 'If the funding available ... remains at its current level and con ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

UN Secretary-General appoints climate envoys	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
I haven't been keeping very close tabs on this, but apparently new(ish) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- who is determined to make climate change a priority -- has named three Special Envoys for Climate Change. What's a Special Envoy, you ask? Good question. I searched in vain for answers, and all I found is this: The Special Envoys will solicit the views of national leaders, including those who are key actors in the climate change negotiations. "The w ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Interview with Pachauri	David Roberts	08 May 2007	Gristmill
ThinkProgress has an interview with Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC. Worth a listen.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, IPCC, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Responsibility The view from Washington	Tom Athanasiou	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
So here I am in Washington (the other one) in a homey B&B just eight blocks from the White House. I came here for a number of reasons, not the least of which is attending a conference called Climate Change and International Development (which was, by the way, recorded, and it is said that videos will be available here.) It was pretty good, and the less-public strategy meeting that followed it today (at the Friends of the Earth offices) was even better. Strategic ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

IPCC Working Group III goes after transportation pollution If you won't go after them, we will	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The IPCC reports are some of the most highly anticipated of 2007. An obvious sign? Within two weeks of one report's release, papers are already covering a leak from the next. IPCC Working Group III's focus is on mitigation, meaning a fair number of policy implications can be derived from its conclusions. So here's a hint for America's auto industry: the report calls for urgent action on road pollution. In the United States, there are 483 passenger cars per 1,00 ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, litigation, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Climate in the UN Security Council Highlighting security risks of climate change	Geoff Dabelko	06 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On April 17, the UK will use the prerogative of the chair of the UN Security Council to devote a day to the security implications of climate change. UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is scheduled to deliver a major address meant to put climate-security links squarely on the high table of security policy. John Ashton, the UK special envoy for climate change and an adviser to Beckett, has been making the case for treating climate as a security issue since he too ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Sustainability in world politics, continued On Revkin's piece on poverty and climate change impacts	John McGrath	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(A topic I return to every once in a while. See here and here.) The link that Jason posted Sunday deserves a closer look, if you missed it over the weekend. Revkin has written an excellent, if somewhat depressing, piece on the fact that while climate change is overwhelmingly the responsibility of the world's rich nations, the nations that suffer most will be the world's poorest. It also reminds me of something else I heard Tim Flannery say last week: whatever ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental justice, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Good God, Y'all U.N. chief says climate change poses as big a threat as war		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Good God, Y'all U.N. chief says climate change poses as big a threat as war When we were in school, assemblies were a chance to see something fun, like a juggler or a movie. How times change. Two months after taking office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his first climate-change speech, saying all kinds of gloomy things to an audience of schoolchildren from around the world. To wit ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Esprit de Gore Gore is transforming into fiery climate evangelist	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Jun 2005	Muckraker
Al Gore. Photo: The House Policy Committee. Al Gore, once derided by the right as a stiff, wooden Ozone Man, is now recasting himself as the fiery, headstrong Climate Avenger -- a blunt and passionate spokesperson about what he calls "a collision between our civilization and the earth." He is currently in negotiations to play a starring role in a big-budget, feature-length documentary ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco, United Nations (all these topics)

The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks The U.S. delegation to an upcoming global conference on natural disasters is pushing to have references to global warming removed from the U.N. action plan to be ratified there. The document cites global warming as one factor among many leading to "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the wor ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Dude, Where's the After Party? U.N. negotiators begin talking about post-Kyoto actions		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's the After Party? U.N. negotiators begin talking about post-Kyoto actions Two months before the Kyoto Protocol even takes effect, representatives meeting in Buenos Aires for the annual U.N. conference on climate change are already discussing plans for reducing emissions post-Kyoto. So far, says Eliot Diringer of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, participants have agreed that any future plans need to i ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change		08 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change "I'm not sure why we're considered the 'bad boys'," said puzzled U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson at this week's U.N. climate change convention in Buenos Aires. The conference -- the last such meeting to take place before the Kyoto Protocol goes into effect in February -- has featured sharp criticism of U.S. ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

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