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U.S. is starting to make a down payment on funding international climate change efforts 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days 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 3 weeks, 3 days 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 3 weeks, 3 days 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 4 weeks, 1 day 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 1 month, 1 week ago
I really like Title VII Part E of the Waxman-Markey bill, which puts aside some pollution permit value to reduce international deforestation.
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Putting the US in a Strong Position to Secure an International Climate Agreement: Waxman-Markey Bill 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Fix the food chain 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Just the (industry-sponsored) facts

Chevron hires former CNN correspondent to spin report on Amazon destruction 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 3 months 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 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Planting trees and managing soils to sequester carbon 19
Posted 6 months ago
Serena‘s cautionary tale 2
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Can't See the Forest for the Treelessness

Conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region devastating forests too 1
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Forest policy is a hot topic at international climate negotiations 7
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Cut and Forest

Brazil sets plan to cut deforestation by 70 percent over 10 years 4
Posted 7 months ago
A war we can win ... 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The financial crisis is distracting us from ... everything! 2
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Massive U.N. study attempts to do for biodiversity what IPCC did for climate 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
When the Chimps Are Down

Cote d’Ivoire’s West African chimp population drops off dramatically 0
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago