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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)

Man on Emissions U.S. summit concludes with no progress to speak of		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:47 PM on 28 Sep 2007 At the conclusion of a two-day U.S.-hosted climate summit of the world's major emitters, George W. Bush announced that he's been faking his climate-change laggardness all along, and signed on to reduce greenhouse gases in various planet-saving-while-still-economy-boosting ways. Ha ha ha! Sob. No, just as expected, Bush said what he always says -- voluntary measures will save the world! goals are ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, 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)

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: Bill Clinton, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: A round-up of quotes Highlights from Brundtland, Zenawi, and Blair; lowlights from Paulson	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Notable quotes from the plenary on 'Economic Growth in the Face of Resource Scarcity and Climate Change': Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Change: 'Industry needs political signals and long-term ones. And it's not sufficient that individual countries set their own [goals] without connecting it to a global system.' Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia: 'This is about property right ... it's abou ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Climate change and the Third World Ethiopian leader lays out the real inconvenient truth on climate	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia, laid out the, ahem, inconvenient truth: That countries like his suffer because of what countries like ours have done, and that a world-wide cap-and-trade treaty would have to allow countries like Ethiopia to sell carbon allocations to countries like the United States. He says the funds would be used to invest in green energy. Of course, they could also end up spent on Ethiopia's continuing quest to take over Somalia, so, it ...
Topics: climate, Ethiopia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Blair on political will and economic strength Tony Blair downplays the importance of political will in the U.S.	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Tony Blair, oddly, just downplayed the importance of political will in the United States, and then, in an aside, said he thinks 'the political will is there.' I think he's been talking to George Bush too much. Building American political will is the key challenge facing us if we want to see a global mitigation regime emerge. Still, the topic of the plenary is 'Economic Growth in the Face of Resource Scarcity and Climate Change,' and on that point, Blair pointed ...
Topics: climate, international politics, Norway, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton on efficiency Bill Clinton calls for countries to follow Japan's lead	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton introduced the morning plenary today by, once again, honoring the companies and people who've committed to the Clinton Global Initiative to take steps to increase energy efficiency and decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. But he touted one dubious statistic: If China, India, and the United States were to become as efficient as Japan, that would decrease global greenhouse-gas output by 20 percent. That statistic is based on this study by the McKinsey Inst ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, China, climate, India, international politics, Japan, politics, United States (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)

A surge of idiocy The absurdity that is Bush administration climate meetings	David Roberts	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The L.A. Times has a piece on the laughable farce that is the Bush administration climate meetings, which will take place later this week. Some funny quotes: 'It is the first in what we hope will be a series of meetings,' said Dan Price, a deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs. 'Those are not issues you discuss and resolve in two days.' Well maybe ... uh, how to say this without profanity ... you should have started discussing and reso ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (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)

Do something already Poll finds people ready for action on climate change	David Roberts	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The BBC World Service just released the results of a poll they did of 22,000 people in 21 countries on attitudes toward global warming. Short story: large majorities believe that human beings are causing global warming, that urgent action needs to be taken to avert it, and that part of that action should be rich countries helping fund the efforts of poor countries. Says GlobeScan President Doug Miller, "The strength of these findings makes it difficult to imagi ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

What to listen for during 'Global Warming Week' On how the Bush administration creates an illusion of climate change progress	Joseph Romm	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
There's going to be a lot of hype around the Bush climate summit this week. The key buzzwords of the global warming delayers are 'aspirational,' 'technology,' and 'intensity.' The more someone uses those words, the less serious they are about stopping climate change. The bottom line is that any international global warming agreement must include prompt, binding, and enforceable greenhouse-gas reductions by the United States or else the agreement will fail and all na ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (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)

Bush's climate summit: What's needed Terry Tamminen and Stewart J. Hudson tell Bush how to make his climate meeting a success	Grist	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Terry Tamminen and Stewart J. Hudson. Tamminen is the Cullman Senior Climate Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. His latest book is Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction. Hudson is president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and co-chair of the U.S. Climate and Energy Funders Group. Preparations for President Bush's Sept. 27-28 summit of world leaders on climate change are underway and will determine how ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics, Terry Tamminen (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)

Bush to world: Nothing up my sleeve Bush's climate summit promises no change in U.S. stance	Joseph Romm	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bush may be hosting a climate summit this week, but 'what he will not do, officials said, is chart any shift in policies.' Specifically, the Washington Post reports: Top Bush administration officials said the president is not planning to alter his opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse gases or to stray from his emphasis on promoting new technologies, especially for nuclear power and for the storage of carbon dioxide produced by coal plants. This is ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (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)

Agree to disagree Bush parallel climate meetings intended to avoid binding treaty	David Roberts	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bush is blowing off the U.N. climate meeting happening this week, choosing instead to focus on his parallel international climate meetings. I ask you to savor the multiple absurdities embedded in this paragraph in the NYT: Mr. Bush's aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the United Nations' process -- hijacking it, as his critics charge. They say that Mr. Bush hopes to persuade the nations that produce 90 percent of the world's emissions to ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Iraq flushes Blackwater: Time for a real debate on troop levels?	Tom Philpott	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
When Gen. Petraeus faced down Congressional questioners last week, few of his interlocutors were impolite enough to ask about what I have called the "rent-a-soldier surge": the some 180,000 private contractors, many of them heavily armed, now serving in Iraq at the pleasure of President Bush, on the dime of the U.S. public.To put their number in perspective, note that the number of official U.S. soldiers in Iraq now stands at 160,000 (of whom President Bush ha ...
Topics: international politics, Iraq, politics (all these topics)

Mankiw very much Conservative economists agree: Taxes rule!	David Roberts	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Stalwart Republican, former Bush advisor, and Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw makes the case for the carbon tax. He also thinks a carbon tax is the most achievable global policy:A global carbon tax would be easier to negotiate. All governments require revenue for public purposes. The world's nations could agree to use a carbon tax as one instrument to raise some of that revenue. No money needs to change hands across national borders. Each government could keep ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, 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)

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