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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)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton chats with the press Bill Clinton wanted a carbon market back in the day, and he still does	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton just gave a short speech and took a few questions from reporters. Some highlights: When they were in office, Bill Clinton and Al Gore wanted to create a global carbon market. At the time, Europe thought the idea undesirable and unfeasible and didn't offer any support. The effort failed. Now, years down the line, the world is a different place and the idea has much more purchase. Clinton, when asked for his thoughts on this, managed to turn all of his ...
Topics: climate, politics, international politics, Bill Clinton, climate change mitigation, carbon tax, carbon trading (all these topics)

American spirits New poll shows Americans believe in global warming, want to do something about it	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Another day, another poll. This one's a Yale University / Gallup / ClearVision poll run by Anthony Leiserowitz, who I've written about before. Unlike the one I wrote about earlier this week, this poll focused on the U.S. No huge shocks. Most Americans believe humans are causing global warming; strangely, they see themselves as ahead of the scientific consensus -- lots (40%) are under the mistaken impression that scientists still disagree about the existence of climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, United States (all these topics)

Iron fertilization A sound plan, or a load of manure?	JMG	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Take a look at this conference on dumping iron into the oceans to boost carbon pickup.
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, oceans (all these topics)

You Really Can't Have Too Many Meetings U.S. will host climate meeting of world's largest emitters		26 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:06 PM on 26 Sep 2007 Representatives from the world's 17 largest greenhouse-gas emitters will gather tomorrow in the good ol' U.S. of A. for a climate-change discussion. (And yes, the U.N. just had one of those -- President Bush played hooky.) The group, which includes China, India, and Brazil, will be convened by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Bush will address them on Frida ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Lehman on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme European cap-and-trade program gets a positive review	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
At the end of their recent climate report, Lehman Brothers has one of the best brief discussions of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that I have seen. Since the EU ETS is often viewed in this country as a failure, I thought I would reprint their somewhat different perspective in its entirety: The EU ETS, which came into effect in January 2005, was constructed on the basic premise that setting emission caps and allowing them to be freely traded w ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Permanent Pressure Bush administration pressured to act on climate by banks, international leaders		26 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:15 AM on 26 Sep 2007 The pressure is rising on the Bush administration to take action on climate change. This week, some of the world's leading banks are gathering as lobbying group International Carbon Investors and Services to urge the U.S. and other developed nations to introduce a lightly regulated carbon-trading program. And, in anticipation of Bush's planned summit on global warm ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, news, 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)

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)

Sprawl and global warming Land-use and development decisions are crucial in the fight against climate change, says new report	David Roberts	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Living closer to where you work will do more to fight climate change than buying a Prius and living in the 'burbs. We'll never beat climate change until we change the way we structure our communities. That is the conclusion of a new report out from the Urban Land Institute: The report, "Growing Cooler: Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change," analyzed scores of academic studies and concluded that compact development -- mixing housing and busin ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Alan Greenspan is very overrated: Part II Greenspan on climate change	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If you thought Greenspan was confused about energy, his discussion of global warming in The Age of Turbulence is downright stupefying. He opens well (p. 454): There can be very little doubt that global warming is real and man-made. But the next sentence is (I kid you not): We may have to rename Glacier National Park when its glaciers disappear, in what now looks to be 2030, according to park scientists. That's what all the fuss is about -- we'll have to r ...
Topics: books, carbon trading, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Green world unites behind auctioning carbon allowances New U.S. Pirg report recommends 100 percent of allowances be auctioned	David Roberts	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Speaking of auctioning the permits under a cap-and-trade system, yesterday U.S. PIRG released a new report: 'Cleaner, Cheaper, Smarter: The Case For Auctioning Pollution Allowances In A Global Warming Cap-and-Trade Program.' It argues for auctioning 100% of permits: Auctioning all allowances under a cap-and-trade program is fair, reduces the societal cost of achieving emission reductions compared to giving allowances to polluters for free, and promotes a transitio ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Walk It Off Land-use decisions a key factor in emissions reduction, says analysis		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:36 PM on 21 Sep 2007 How to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions? Building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods would be just as effective as much-touted policies like boosting fuel economy, cleaning up power plants, and building green, says a new analysis from the Urban Land Institute. The U.S. population is expected to grow 23 percent by 2030; under the sprawl-encouraging status quo, driving is expected ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking, sprawl, urban planning (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)

Forget the light bulbs: Part II Tidwell responds to scientists responding to Tidwell	Grist	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Mike Tidwell. It's a response to "The Power of Voluntary Actions," written by a phalanx of social scientists, which was itself a response to Tidwell's "Consider Using the N-Word Less." Tidwell is director of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network based in Takoma Park, Md. ----- My Sept. 4 essay on the merits of voluntary versus statutory responses to global warming triggered qu ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green living, politics (all these topics)

Tom Friedman is back -- and he's pessimistic Urban growth rates in Qatar and China leave Friedman skeptical about climate change mitigation	Joseph Romm	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
First the good news from The New York Times: We have ended TimesSelect. All of our Op-Ed and news columns are now available free of charge. Additionally, The New York Times Archive is available free back to 1987. Good for them. Interestingly, even though I had paid my money to get TimesSelect, I pretty much stopped reading the stuff behind the barrier because I couldn't connect readers (i.e., you) to the material. The NYT had basically taken some of their best ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, Qatar (all these topics)

Swap Meat Study says eating less red meat improves health, helps fight climate change		13 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:49 AM on 13 Sep 2007 The British medical journal The Lancet published a study this week that advises people in rich countries to eat less red meat in order to help mitigate climate change and boost their health. Far from advocating citizens of the world entirely eschew meat, the study advised a climate-friendly cut in red-meat consumption of 10 percent of the world average by 2050; the average is c ...
Topics: agriculture, climate change mitigation, food, news (all these topics)

Which way to screw the consumer WSJ on the carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade debate	David Roberts	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
People keep emailing me this Wall Street Journal piece on the debate between carbon tax and cap-and-trade, but as far as I can tell there's nothing new in it. This is well-trod ground on sites like Grist. The one interesting thing about it is this graphic: For reasons Sean has well-described, I don't believe these kinds of figures. They are undergirded by tons of arguable assumptions. More to the point: as long as every story about fighting climate change is about ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

You Offset 550,000 Tons, What Do You Get? Oil company Conoco agrees to offset carbon emissions from refinery project		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:00 AM on 12 Sep 2007 California has reached a settlement with oil giant ConocoPhillips that requires the company to spend $10 million to offset greenhouse-gas emissions from a proposed refinery expansion in the state's East Bay area. As part of the deal, the company will spend $7 million on as-yet-unspecified environmental projects in the San Francisco Bay Area as wel ...
Topics: Big Oil, California, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Now With More Gore! Al Gore will pen a solutions-focused sequel		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:15 PM on 07 Sep 2007 Al Gore is writing another book -- and you can bet that climate change is shakin' in its boots. The Path to Survival, a solutions-focused sequel to the groundbreaking Inconvenient Truth, is slated to hit shelves on Earth Day 2008. (Where was that impeccable timing when you were campaigning, Al?) Billed as "part scientific manual, part expos�, part visionary call for a new planet-wide political ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, books, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

The 'intensity' scam APEC's draft plan to reduce GHG intensity will do nothing to curb emissions	Andrew Dessler	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Reports coming out of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit say that a draft statement on climate change from the Pacific Rim nations is on the way. Early reports, however, contain this nugget: To strike the accord, negotiators agreed to set a target to reduce 'energy intensity' -- the amount of energy needed to produce economic growth, Al-Farisi said. Australian Prime Minister John Howard previously called for reducing energy intensity 25 percent ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Update on PG&E's ClimateSmart Offset Program On how electric utilities should become carbon neutral	Joseph Romm	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Since my first post dissing PG&E's offset program, I've had phone calls with PG&E, NRDC, members of PG&E's ClimateSmart External Advisory Group, plus a call with a forestry expert who consults with those who oversee the van Eck forest, which is featured on the 'Our Projects' page of the ClimateSmart website. I have four basic conclusions: I still think, in general, the vast majority of electric utilities should not be in the business of sellin ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

More inconvenience Coming Gore book to spell out climate solutions	David Roberts	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Gore to pen a sequel: The Path to Survival will be published next spring to coincide with Earth Day on April 22. According to the publisher, Rodale Books, Gore will spell out a blueprint for the changes that individuals and governments need to make to avoid catastrophic climate change. I expect the book will be built around Gore's 10 policy recommendations to Congress, which remain the gold standard as far as I'm concerned.
Topics: Al Gore, books, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Take this box and check it Japan offers Micky D's as reward for climate change promises	Sarah van Schagen	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Today, in Japan: A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. ... People were asked to check up to 39 boxes on a form they could download from the environment ministry's website, each listing a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions blamed for global warming. ... The 39 measures range from cutting air conditioning use to ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, food, Japan (all these topics)

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