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Dr. Hansen to Dr. Merkel Carbon is forever -- so ban new traditional coal plants now	Joseph Romm	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Another clear statement (PDF) from the nation's top climate scientist on the scientific need for a dramatic change in global coal policy -- this time addressed to the German chancellor, a fellow physicist. He points out that: The fact that energy and climate advisors, in Germany, the United States, and elsewhere, do not understand the problem is starkly illustrated by repetition of goals to reduce CO2 emissions by a percentage (say 40% by 2020, 80% by 2050, or o ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate science, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, James Hansen, politics (all these topics)

Under pressure E.U. considers pollution charges on imports from U.S. and other climate scofflaws	Patrick Mazza	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
U.S. failure to enact limits on global warming emissions could cost American companies that export to the European Union. E.U. President Jose Manuel Barroso on Sunday said the European Commission is considering a charge on importers from nations without carbon limits. Companies from those countries may be required to buy carbon emissions allowances on exports into the E.U. This is intended to level the playing field with European companies who are already part ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, European Union, international politics, politics, state politics, United States (all these topics)

The Chopping Bloc European Union unveils detailed plans to cut GHG emissions		23 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:18 AM on 23 Jan 2008 European Union leaders today unveiled detailed draft plans to reduce E.U.-wide emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The plans would require utilities to buy all of their greenhouse-gas emissions permits beginning in 2013, as opposed to the current practice of allocating nearly all of them for free, which companies can then sell at a profit. Also starting in 2013, other heavil ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Papua ooh mau mau The real story behind the world's favorite scolding of the U.S.	David Roberts	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Last month, Kevin Conrad became somewhat famous representing Papua New Guinea at the Bali climate talks. Confronted yet again with U.S. intransigence, Conrad said: I would ask the United States, we ask for your leadership. But if for some reason you're not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way. The way the story's been told, Conrad's bold moral cry shattered the wall of U.S. indifference and broke the logjam. Naturally, the realit ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, politics, United States (all these topics)

Act two Second 'major economies meeting' this month in Hawaii	David Roberts	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
You know, there's something I don't get about these kabuki 'major economies meetings' Bush is holding. Obviously, in reality it's about creating the illusion that Bush is doing something on climate. But usually when something is done purely for looks, there's some sort of plausible cover story, a purported rationale that can be put out to the media. But the Bush administration has always said that all countries should determine their own strategies for addressing cl ...
Topics: climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Another desperate addict Bush asks Saudi king to open oil spigots	Joseph Romm	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The president who said 'America is addicted to oil' now begs the Saudis for another fix. Like some binge-drinking, pill-popping starlet -- is there any other kind? -- the president is prostrate before his top foreign 'dealer,' begging for more, even at the risk of public humiliation: The Saudi oil minister, however, waited only a short time before announcing that oil prices would remain tied to market forces -- a direct slap at Bush. Wow! When even your dea ...
Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Soliciting the House of Saud Bush and big U.S. banks beg for help from the oil barons	Tom Philpott	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bush has been doing some fast talking in the court of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, imploring His Majesty to boost oil production to so that gas prices for U.S. consumers can come down in time for the fall election. As part of his charm offensive, Bush has promised to bolster the dictatorship's arsenal with '900 sophisticated satellite-guided missiles.' He also rattled his tattered saber against Iran, Saudi Arabia's archenemy. While Bush and the King talk bombs, ...
Topics: economy, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Will Anyone Get Lei'd? White House talks up its Hawaii climate-change meeting		16 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:43 AM on 16 Jan 2008 The White House has released a statement regarding its very own climate-change meeting for the world's biggest economies, to be held Jan. 30-31 in Hawaii. "The two-day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining economic growth, and will help to advance the negotiations under the U.N. Fr ...
Topics: climate, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Davos for you and I Make a video on how to improve the world	Adam Browning	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Davos. You know, the big important event to which you and I aren't invited? Well, if you have a suggestion for the world's leaders on how to make the world a better place, YouTube is sponsoring a contest and the winner gets a free, all-expense-paid trip. The winning video, that is. Not you. You still aren't invited. Hat tip to Project Better Place, who submitted this spot-on if treacly video:
Topics: politics, international politics, video (all these topics)

We're Getting the Shakes President Bush asks OPEC to boost oil production		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:15 PM on 15 Jan 2008 President Bush, on a trip to Saudi Arabia, has urged the key member of OPEC to boost oil production. "Oil prices are very high, which is tough on our economy," said Bush. "I would hope, as OPEC considers different production levels, that they understand that if ... one of their biggest consumers' economy suffers, it will mean less purchases, less gas and oil sold." Tran ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, international politics, news, oil, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Mob Gnarly and the Whalers Protesters converge on Japan's whaling fleet; Aussie court rules Japan hunt illegal		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:02 AM on 15 Jan 2008 It's been high drama on the high seas the past few days as the unpopular Japanese whaling fleet has been at the heart of legal action and a target of direct-action protest. Earlier this week, Greenpeace successfully tracked down Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and has been chasing them around, disrupting the hunt. Today, a federal court in Aus ...
Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

More on the fishing subsidies problem There's a large human cost to subsidizing European fishing fleets in West Africa	Andrew Sharpless	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Today's front page New York Times story -- 'Europe Takes Africa's Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow' -- chronicles the human cost of overfishing. Fueled by billions in government subsidies, European fleets empty out West African waters, leaving nothing for subsistence fishermen. I wrote about this in an earlier post, but it's an important enough issue to warrant reiteration. Wasteful subsidies promote mismanagement on both the European and African sid ...
Topics: Africa, fishing, international politics, oceans, politics (all these topics)

The key ideas behind Sky Trust A look at the framing behind the last climate policy proposal	Guest author	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Joe Brewer, a research fellow at the Rockridge Institute. ----- Not long ago, a group of important environmental leaders published an essay on Gristmill -- "Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust" -- about Peter Barnes' Sky Trust proposal. As it happens, Rockridge is about to release an analysis comparing Sky Trust with the Lieberman-Warner bill. We particularly evaluate what we call "cognitive policy," which i ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Border in the Court U.S. Supreme Court refuses Canadian company's pollution suit appeal		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:42 AM on 08 Jan 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Canadian mining company in a cross-border pollution case, in effect sustaining an earlier appeals court ruling holding the company liable for pollution under U.S. law. Just 10 miles north of the U.S. border in British Columbia, the mining company Teck Cominco has been operating a smelter that from 1892 until 1994 du ...
Topics: business, Canada, international politics, litigation, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Vex and the Single Hull South Korea to outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in 2011		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:42 AM on 07 Jan 2008 South Korea has announced that it will outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in its waters by January 2011, four years earlier than its original goal, due to the country's largest oil spill in December. The December spill dumped about 2.7 million gallons of oil some five miles off the country's coast when a barge struck a massive single-hulled tanker, puncturing it in three places. As of ...
Topics: international politics, news, oil, South Korea (all these topics)

Barnes answers questions about the Sky Trust	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I hope everyone read the essay from Peter Barnes et al that we published last night. If you're interested in the notion of an atmospheric trust, you might also check out Dot Earth today, where Barnes answers questions from readers.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust A system to control climate change and reduce poverty	Guest author	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Peter Barnes of the Tomales Bay Institute, Robert Costanza of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Paul Hawken of the Natural Capital Institute, David Orr of the Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Elinor Ostrom of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Alvaro Uma�a of the InterAmerican Development Bank, and Oran Young of the Donald Bren School of E ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The G8 Warming Japan leads G8 in 2008, will focus on climate change		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:49 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A new year means a new country takes over leadership of the Group of Eight rich nations, and in 2008 it's Japan. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has promised to make climate change a top priority, proposing a goal for G8 countries to cut emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. And while that may seem ambitious for a nation that just last month stood with the United States in opposition to ...
Topics: climate, G8, international politics, Japan, news, politics (all these topics)

Doing the Humpty Dance Japan says it won't hunt humpback whales, at least for now		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:49 AM on 21 Dec 2007 Under pressure from, well, most of the world to stop targeting humpback whales, Japan has announced it will hold off on its hunt for the imperiled humpback -- at least for now. "Japan has decided not to catch humpback whales for one year or two, but there will be no change in our stance on research whaling," said spokesguy Nobutaka Machimura. The decision was in large par ...
Topics: international politics, International Whaling Commission, Japan, news, politics, whaling (all these topics)

Disentangling the confusion of Bali	Joseph Romm	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Tom Friedman is very confused about exactly what happened at Bali and why. So are M.I.T. science journalist fellows. So what are your chances of figuring it out? Well, they are a lot better if you read this excellent Bali debriefing by my friend Holmes Hummel (PDF), a Stanford Ph.D. and Congressional Science Fellow. One interesting point she makes: Some media coverage left the misimpression that the Bush team opposed language that would have committed Annex I (i.e., ...
Topics: international politics, Bali 07, politics, climate (all these topics)

It's Time to Face the Tax Germany's Social Democrats call for climate sanctions on U.S. goods		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 7:56 AM on 19 Dec 2007 Angered by what it sees as America's climate inaction and obstructionism, the Social Democratic Party in Germany has called for sanctions on imports of energy-intensive products from the U.S. "The U.S. is a major part of the problem. Levying special taxes or sanctions on energy-intensive U.S. products, such as steel and aluminum, which are exported to Europe, could ...
Topics: Germany, international politics, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Belated Bali blogging An incomplete roundup of reactions and commentary to the Bali climate meetings	David Roberts	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I feel somewhat guilty for not following the goings-on in Bali more closely. A few of you have written to ask why. It's just that every single international meeting on climate since I started covering this stuff has gone down the exact ... same ... way. It's like clockwork: everyone arrives full of hope, because now, finally, there's real momentum, people really get the problem; midway through, everyone's getting more and more pissed at the U.S. for its intransigence; ...
Topics: international politics, politics, climate, Bali 07 (all these topics)

Where do we go from here? The Bali meeting, and the lessons learned	Tom Athanasiou	17 Dec 2007	Gristmill
It's important, this time, to draw conclusions, and to do so publicly. Because Bali has taken us -- barely and painfully -- over a line and into a new and even more difficult level in the climate game we'll be playing for the rest of our lives. In fact, it's not too much to say that, with the realizations of the last year and their culmination at the 13th Conference of Parties, the game has, finally, belatedly, begun in earnest. First up, we knew going into Bal ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, politics, international politics, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'We seek your leadership. But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.'-- Kevin Conrad, U.N. delegate from Papua New Guinea, during contentious last-minute climate talks in Bali. Conrad's blunt declaration was met with applause.
Topics: quotables, Bali 07, politics, international politics, climate (all these topics)

Letter from Bali: A tragic truth Professor Andrew Light laments the unnecessary line in the sand the U.S. has drawn in Bali	Guest author	15 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Andrew Light, an environmental ethicist and professor of philosophy and public affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. He attended the Bali meetings as an observer and participant in a side event. The essay comes to us from Nusa Dua, Indonesia. ----- I must admit, I clapped. I was probably among the loudest. A line in the sand. Photo: iStockphoto With the negotiations here in Bali for the U.N. confere ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, international politics (all these topics)

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