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Ghana But Not Forgotten Nations gather in Ghana to talk shop on next climate-change accord		22 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:12 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Some 1,600 delegates from 160 nations are moving forward on negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol as they gather this week in Accra, Ghana. The meeting is the third in a series of eight that will culminate in the adoption of a new global climate-change accord in Dec. 2009. "The negotiations need to speed up and become more concrete if governments are to m ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Ghana, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, news, United Nations (all these topics)

I'll Have the Marsupial of the Day Aussies should fight climate change by eating kangaroo, says study		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 08 Aug 2008 Australians who want to make a dent in climate change just need to eat more kangaroo, says a new study in the journal Conservation Letters. The methane-producing burps and farts of sheep and cattle contribute 11 percent of Australia's annual greenhouse-gas emissions. Kangaroos, however, emit little methane. Researchers say that 175 million kangaroos could produc ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, livestock, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Revkin agonistes Is tackling climate change contrary to human nature?	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
On DotEarth, Andy Revkin again wrestles with a dilemma he returns to frequently: how do we overcome human nature? He quotes the work of David Ropeik, who's done considerable work on communicating risk, and who is not sanguine about our ability to communicate the risk of climate change. The problem, Revkin and Ropeik agree, is that climate change doesn't activate our primal survival instincts. No matter how much evidence is presented, how many reasoned arguments are ad ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Efficiency first! Part two The urgency to begin CO2 reduction via efficiency	Guest author	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Ned Ford, Energy Chair of the Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club and a member of the Club's national Global Warming and Energy Committee. Ford has been actively promoting electric utility efficiency strategies since 1983. This is the second in a series (first here). ----- If what you want to do is solve global warming, the core strategy is energy efficiency. Efficiency may have displaced more than half of all the new growth in electr ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Volunteers for Fears Voluntary programs not so effective, says gov't watchdog		25 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 25 Jul 2008 Shocker: Voluntary measures to reduce greenhouse gases don't work so well, the U.S. EPA Inspector General's Office said Thursday. Despite the Bush administration's adoration of the word "voluntary," such programs have "limited potential" to actually address pollution and climate-change concerns, said the report. Too often, industries decline to spend money to partic ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Howdy, Ontario A big addition to the Western Climate Initiative	Eric de Place	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Ontario officially joins the Western Climate Initiative as a full partner. Sweet. Some Americans may not fully realize the significance of this. So for my fellow Yankees (and with apologies to readers north of the border) ... Ontario is the California of Canada in the sense that it has more people and economic activity than any other province. On the other hand, Ontario is the Michigan of Canada in the sense that it has a huge auto manufacturing base. And yet Ontari ...
Topics: Canada, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, regulation (all these topics)

Input on outputs New white paper provides more details on output-based standards	Sean Casten	18 Jul 2008	Gristmill
For those of a policy-wonk bent. For those who simply loved my earlier post on output-based standards for greenhouse gas control and have been thirsting ever since for more details (I know you're out there!). For those who wait eagerly at their mailbox waiting for the current issues of electricity policy magazines to arrive ... Yea, verily, I bring you this [PDF]. A white paper just published in The Electricity Journal, providing much more detail than was appropria ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, regulation (all these topics)

NYC government plans 30 percent carbon cuts by 2017 Energy efficiency is cornerstone of ambitious plan	Adam Stein	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Everyone's favorite McKinsey study suggests that America can shed a huge chunk of its emissions through costless measures, primarily in the realm of energy efficiency. The fly in this delicious low-carbon ointment is that the freebie cuts haven't so far happened by themselves, and it's never entirely clear how well an analyst's report is going to translate into reality. How nice, then, that New York City is gearing up to provide the proof point we've all been waiting for. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, New York City (all these topics)

The Air Over There Airlines must pay for emissions, E.U. says		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:30 AM on 27 Jun 2008 All flights into, out of, and within the European Union will be included in the bloc's emissions-trading scheme as of 2012, the E.U. Parliament decided Thursday. If the plan is given final approval, airlines will have to cut emissions 3 percent in 2012 and 5 percent per year from 2013 on. Airlines would buy 15 percent of their emissions permits from the E.U.; the rest would be allocated for free. Big ...
Topics: air travel, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

We're from Wall Street, and we're here to help McKinsey report shatters myths on cost of curbing climate change	Joseph Romm	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The McKinsey Global Institute has published another terrific piece of analysis, 'The carbon productivity challenge: curbing climate change and sustaining economic growth.' MGI is best known for its comprehensive cost curve for global greenhouse gas reduction measures (reprinted below), which came to the stunning conclusion that the measures needed to stabilize emissions at 450 pppm have a net cost near zero. The new report has its own stunning conclusion: In fact, ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Stronger, simpler, fairer Upward from the Climate Security Act	Patrick Mazza	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Climate Solutions Policy Director K.C. Golden has some thoughts on where to go with national climate legislation after last week's down vote on the Climate Security Act. As thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the nation's capital last week, the U.S. Senate tied itself in a procedural knot, preventing a vote on the substance of the Climate Security Act -- the first meaningful climate legislation to reach the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid c ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation (all these topics)

Conservatives and climate change, continued A carbon policy is likely to be less devastating than nature, or oil markets	Ryan Avent	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Reihan responds. Let me just say a few more things. First, I described his characterization of carbon pricing as 'insane' based on this: What we need is a $100 billion prize or set of prizes to the person or firm or non-profit entity that can devise a cost-effective means of scrubbing the atmosphere of carbon emissions. This sounds insane, I realize. It is less insane than the far costlier, far less egalitarian regulatory alternative. Just to clarify. Next, Reiha ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, gas prices, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Revkin: Can tax-and-dividend break the political deadlock? Now that L-W is dead, Barnes' sky trust is looking good	Gar Lipow	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Revkin speculates that Barnes' proposal is a way to break the deadlock stopping climate change legislation. I think he may be right. Tax emissions. (Or cap them and auction permits.) Refund the revenue to everybody. It has the following political advantages: It is simple and easy to understand. It puts a price on emissions without really penalizing anybody. It is a no-hair-shirt solution. This last point is worth emphasizing. It does not punish consumers, be ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Take a Number On carbon calculators	Umbra Fisk	04 Jun 2008	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, I recently heard an interesting interview on NPR, and the speaker was talking about how, to stop global warming, all humans would have to limit their carbon emissions to just one ton of carbon per person, per year. I've never weighed my carbon emissions, but I'm going to guess that I throw a lot more weight around than one ton. What would I have to do to slim my ton to one? I'm approaching my carbon tonnage like a diet ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, climate change mitigation, ecological footprint, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Ah, the 'Can't do' spirit Standing up to Samuelson	Joseph Romm	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This post is by Bracken Hendricks, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. ----- In Monday's Washington Post, and a parallel piece in Newsweek, Robert Samuelson gets it wildly wrong on cap-and-trade, parroting a litany of falsehoods and misrepresentations concerning the most probable federal policy for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Like most detractors of action on global warming, Samuelson continues to push the unsubstantiated notion that reducing emi ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Ahead of the curve: States lead on climate change Great new video on state efforts to tackle global warming	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Sea Studios has put together a fantastic new video called "Ahead of the Curve: States Lead on Climate Change." Check it out: You might also remember their previous video, 'Ahead of the Curve: Business Leads on Climate Change.' Here it is:
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Mark Bittman What's wrong with what we eat	David Roberts	20 May 2008	Gristmill
Powerful stuff.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Fuzzy math How much will it really cost to address climate change?	Andrew Dessler	12 May 2008	Gristmill
One of the consistent claims made by those opposed to policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is that the cost will be prohibitive. I have always been somewhat suspicious of this claim, however. When I started graduate school in 1988, the Montreal Protocol had just been signed. It required industrialized countries to significantly reduce the production of chlorofluorocarbons within a decade or so (the exact schedule of production reduction depended on the particu ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

We Will Connecticut You Now Connecticut goes big with emissions-reducing goals		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 06 May 2008 The Connecticut senate has unanimously passed a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, becoming the fifth state to pass such legislation (after California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Washington). The bill would require Connecticut to reduce emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. If, as expected, Gov. Jodi Rell (R) signs it into ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Connecticut, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, progress, state politics (all these topics)

Thought of the day: Social engineering and climate chaos Social engineering can't be avoided; why make it benefit only the rich?	Gar Lipow	01 May 2008	Gristmill
There is passionate opposition in some circles to combining 'social engineering' with fighting climate chaos. But the fact is, an emissions cut is social engineering. To cut emissions, we are trying to make some of the biggest changes in individual and social behavior ever. Putting 100 percent of that change on the backs of ordinary people by giving away emissions permits that are then sold and incorporated into the prices of consumer goods is also social engineering -- so ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Details matter: Winner-picking and social engineering Lieberman Warner criticism, Part 3	Sean Casten	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is the third in a five-part series exploring the details of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. See also part 1 and part 2. Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine that tomorrow morning, you wake up, reach in your pocket, and find that you suddenly have billions of dollars of cash. Before you have a moment to celebrate, you also realize that you are lying in the middle of an interstate, and there is a big truck coming. What do you do? (a) Issue an RFP ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Details matter: Small sticks and no carrots Lieberman-Warner criticism, Part 2	Sean Casten	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is the second in a five-part series exploring the details of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. See part 1 here. With atmospheric GHG concentrations rising at a frightening rate, we need a full court press to change directions, using every possible tool at our disposal. From an economic perspective, this means that we not only need to impose financial penalties on polluters, but also provide financial incentives for those who act to lower GHG emissions. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 2 The 14 wedges needed to stabilize emissions	Joseph Romm	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In this post I will lay out 'the solution' to global warming, focusing primarily on the 14 'stabilization wedges.' Part 1 argued that stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm is not politically possible today, but that it is certainly achievable from an economic and technological perspective. It would require some 14 of Princeton's 'stabilization wedges' -- strategies and/or technologies that over a period of a few decades each reduce glo ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Waiting for a techno miracle: not the fastest way to cut emissions Government-financed construction plus carbon pricing is the key	Jon Rynn	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
With NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof's seeming endorsement of Roger Pielke Jr.'s ideas about mitigating global warming, it seems that we have two main arguments developing: the 'breakthrough' argument, which says we must have technology breakthroughs in order to solve the problem, and, as articulated (for instance) by Joseph Romm, the 'just do it' argument that we have the technologies now to minimize global warming. Most of my posts have been an attempt to show how current ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, green jobs, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

By Our Power Combined California utilities scuffle over cap-and-trade		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:42 AM on 21 Apr 2008 California is well aware that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is easier said than done. The state's attempts to craft an effective cap-and-trade system are causing infighting among public utilities and their privately owned counterparts. Public utilities, which source more of their power from coal, protest that they're going to end up paying out the nose to the state and seeing the money red ...
Topics: business, California, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

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