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Time to shut down the IPCC? It is doubtful that future IPCC reports will make a difference in climate policy	Joseph Romm	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I have a long column at Salon.com, 'Desperate times, desperate scientists,' which discusses how dire the climate situation is and how desperate climate scientists have become in the face of global inaction. In general, I am a fan of what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has done -- and they certainly deserve the Nobel Prize they shared with Al Gore. That said, at the end of the Salon piece I argue for disbanding it: In fact, I think that ...
Topics: politics, climate, IPCC, international politics (all these topics)

Free campaign advice How the Dem candidates should answer the question on energy independence	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I'm not watching the Dem debate in Iowa right now, so I pass the mic to former Gristie Kate Sheppard, who reports on candidate answers to a question about energy independence, which was framed, as always, in terms of its alleged high cost: Biden, up first, says, "The president has to make this a moral crusade for the American people." Richardson says we need to raise fuel efficiency standards to 50 miles a gallon, not 35, and reduce consumption of oil by ...
Topics: politics, presidential race 08, elections, energy, international politics (all these topics)

You first! No, you first! China and the U.S. are both obliged to act on climate change, quick-like	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Apparently, based on some recent threads on this site, there's some dispute about the role China plays in the Great International Climate Change Debate. I'm absolutely snowed under right now, but I want to make two quick points: It is indisputable that the U.S., and developed countries generally, bear a vastly larger share of the responsibility for climate change than China, and developing countries generally. This is true whatever perspective you take: physical respo ...
Topics: politics, greenhouse-gas emissions, China, United States, climate equity, climate, international politics, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Roadblock at Bali Climate Conference? Not U.S.! The U.S. sits on the sidelines rather than leading the charge in a war on climate change	Anna Fahey	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Americans have a history of joining together in times of crisis. But the terminology of war is the most familiar rallying cry. So it's understandable that when he's talking about global warming, John Edwards often implores Americans to be 'patriotic about something other than war.' And when Al Gore accepted his Nobel Prize this week, he said, 'We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobili ...
Topics: politics, international politics, climate, climate change mitigation, United States, Bali 07 (all these topics)

State of play in Bali Second-to-last issue of the Bali ECO newsletter	Tom Athanasiou	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Issue #10 if the Bali ECO is here (PDF). You may need to read between the lines a bit if you haven't been following the negotiations. But it's not hard.
Topics: politics, climate, Bali 07, international politics (all these topics)

Elephants in the room Greenpeace India points out the obvious	Tom Athanasiou	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The taxi driver that took me from the Bali airport to my hotel in Nusa Dua, the secure 'green zone' where the climate negotiations are taking place, didn't speak much English. Just well enough to say, haltingly, that he was 'too stupid' to have a better job, he didn't drink, and he was very depressed because he was lonely, but too poor to get married. Oh, and that the Westin, where I was not staying, was the 'best' place. Very 'luxury.' Very 'Western.' Now, a ...
Topics: Bali 07, China, climate, India, international politics, politics (all these topics)

We Can't Think of Any More U.S. and allies are, as expected, stick-in-the-muds at Bali conference		11 Dec 2007	News
"Bali" Puns at the Moment U.S. and allies are, as expected, stick-in-the-muds at Bali conference Posted at 4:32 PM on 11 Dec 2007 Bali update: The latest draft of negotiations is said to still contain text saying that developed nations should cut emissions by 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The U.S., Japan, Canada, and Australia are against said provision, non-binding as it is; it will likely be removed by the end of the week, as final guidelines ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, international treaties, news, politics (all these topics)

Al Gore is so wrong There is no comparison between Chinese and American GHG emissions	Eric de Place	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's Nobel Prize speech, as reported by the NY Times: ... he singled out the United States and China -- the world's largest emitters of carbon dioxide -- for failing to meet their obligations in mitigating emissions. They should 'stop using each other's behavior as an excuse for stalemate,' he said. Much as I love him, Gore's sentiment here is far too generous to the good ol' U.S. of A. There is simply no fair comparison with China. We're not e ...
Topics: Al Gore, China, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Way the Bali Bounces Bali conference goes into second week		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:12 PM on 10 Dec 2007 The latest from Bali: On Saturday, a draft text was produced suggesting that developed nations cut emissions between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The U.S. and Japanese delegations were displeased; by Monday, that target was reportedly dropped. Sen. John Kerry paid a visit to assure delegates, "I am convinced the politics of 2009 in the United States are going to be just night and ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, international treaties, news, politics (all these topics)

The real action in Bali Grassroots mobilizes over the weekend at int'l climate conference	Youth Movement	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Post by Will Bates, Stepitup 2007 The weekend has finished, and countries are diving into their second week in Bali of chit-chatting about what to do about climate change. While we may not be seeing much bold action so far at this round of negotiations, we know that global public pressure for urgent action is beginning to mount ... Saturday was the third annual International Day of Action on Climate Change, which the Global Climate Campaign helped coordina ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, grassroots activism, international politics, politics (all these topics)

My country, right or ... wait, no, that's definitely wrong US and EU demand import-tariff reductions on stuff that they export	David Roberts	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Wow, the latest out of Bali is really, um, something to behold: The US and the European Union found a rare common cause when they combined to ask developing nations to cut or remove tariffs on imports of environmental goods and services. Golly, why would developing nations not go for that? Other developing countries were also understood to be concerned that the proposal would only benefit rich nations, by opening up export markets in green goods and services ...
Topics: Bali 07, biofuels, climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

The Bali is in our court US reps to present unfinished energy bill to UNFCCC	Youth Movement	09 Dec 2007	Gristmill
When a few members of U.S. Congress come to Bali next week to meet with delegations from all round the world, they'll have something in hand: a first step in the direction of climate change legislation from the U.S.35mpg fuel economy standards and 15% renewable energy requirements from utilities may not seem like all that much, but for the rest of the world's leaders, who have been holding their collective breath, it's a twitch of life from a government long considere ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, legislation, politics (all these topics)

SustainUS in Action in Bali Confronting the belligerent U.S. delegation at the 2007 climate talks	Erik Hoffner	08 Dec 2007	Gristmill
A friend of mine is in Bali with the youth activist group SustainUS, and sent this video update: (Thanks, Lauren.) Check out the body language on the guy who I presume is the U.S. delegate to the talks, as the SustainUS group asks him to take a leading role in the talks to ensure a better future for the planet. Unfortunately, he pretty well embodies the word "obstructionist."
Topics: Bali 07, climate, grassroots activism, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Simple answers	David Roberts	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Noel Sheppard: Capitalist democracies around the world should be very concerned about the level of socialism being discussed at the United Nations' climate change meeting in Bali. Not only are international hands being extended to collect funds from countries like the United States in order to help poorer nations deal with a problem that might actually be disappearing since global temperatures peaked in 1998, but climate change is also being used as a m ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate equity, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Keep the Bali Rolling Bali conference continues		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:24 PM on 06 Dec 2007 The news from Bali: When the U.S. Senate Environment Committee approved a bill calling for a mandatory cap in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, some in Bali took it as a sign that the U.S. was budging on its intractable opposition to said emissions cuts. U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson: "We're not changing our position." However, one environmental activist did tell reporters, "We're not seeing ove ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, international treaties, news, politics (all these topics)

Hey, Look Over There! U.S., avoiding action at current climate meeting, announces new climate meeting		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:38 PM on 06 Dec 2007 President Bush has announced a climate-change meeting in Hawaii next month for 17 of the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters to talk about setting goals for curbing emissions. The meeting is a follow-up to an anticlimactic summit that Bush hosted in late September. Oddly enough, during the pivotal climate-change meeting going on in Bali right this red-hot minu ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

The youth are back and badder than ever The real story at Bali	Youth Movement	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In 2005, at the U.N.'s Montreal Climate Negotiations, a ragtag but sizable delegation showed up at the conference, desperate to make sure that the world heard their call for climate action. The event proved to be a formative time for people involved in the youth climate movement, and many date its launch to that time. In a conference notable for acronyms and obscure policy jargon, the youth activism was like a breath of fresh air. While delegates bemoaned th ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Bags of coal given as party favors Fossil Awards shame obstructionist delegates at Bali talks	Youth Movement	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
You may have heard about the Fossil Awards given at the United Nations Bali climate negotiations. A collaboration between a number of youth delegations and Avaaz.org, the awards are given to nations whose delegates have obstructed progress during the course of the talks. Here's a first-hand account of the first daily Fossil Awards ceremony, when Canada won the infamous prize. Yesterday, Japan managed to win first, second, and third place for threatening to pull out of ...
Topics: Bali 07, Canada, climate, energy, international politics, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

On the Bali Bali conference keeps on keepin' on		04 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:36 PM on 04 Dec 2007 The news from Bali: Teeny-tiny island nations pleaded with delegates for protection and compensation for the impacts of rising seas and other climatic consequences. United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer expressed hope that delegates would make operational the Adaptation Fund, a woefully underfunded um, fund for helping developing countries adapt to climate change. Delegates set up a working group to establish a ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, international treaties, news, politics (all these topics)

Having a Bali U.N. climate conference opens in Bali, Indonesia		04 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:14 AM on 04 Dec 2007 Plenty is going on at the United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, where delegates from nearly 190 nations are gathered to lay the groundwork for a post-Kyoto climate treaty. Conference leaders have said they aim to have a new treaty ready to go by 2009. In the meantime, there's no shortage of things to bicker about. Today delegates debated the role of China and India in a new climate tr ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, international politics, news (all these topics)

Red List not enough Experts push for an intergovernmental biodiversity panel	Maywa Montenegro	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
For this enviro, Christmas is shaping up pretty nicely this year. Today, as post-Kyoto discussions commence in Bali, Australia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, sweeping aside decades of Howard's curmudgeonly climate skepticism. Another unexpected gift came last month, when a group of 80 experts convened in France to mull over the future of biodiversity. Their consensus? That we need to establish a new intergovernmental panel -- akin to the IPCC -- to begin aggressiv ...
Topics: international politics, climate, energy, biodiversity, politics (all these topics)

Rational expectations Winning the battle in Bali, and then winning the war	Tom Athanasiou	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Since COP13 / MOP3 -- hereafter 'Bali' -- has begun, I thought I'd send a brief note on expectations and strategy. Brief because there's too much to say, so I shouldn't try. Besides, I'll try to post again in a few days. Here's the thing: Bali is freighted with terrific expectations, which are entirely appropriate given the state of the science. We now 'know,' insofar as we can know these things, that we've got to do everything to hold total temperature increa ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Blowguns in Bali As climate conference kicks off, defenses are up	Jason Anderson	03 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
When I visited Bali 20 years ago, the beaches teemed with people offering any manner of products and services, and the most abundant seemed to be blowguns. Lying in the sand with your eyes closed, you could just hear, above the rhythmic lapping of the waves, the repeated murmur of "Blowgun? Blowgun? Blowgun?" What the connection with Bali was, I couldn't make out, but I can't help but think ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, international treaties, politics (all these topics)

Bali eve Delegates of all stripes prepare for the trip to Bali	Youth Movement	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Post by Kelly Blynn, Step It Up 2007 Around the world, an estimated 10,000 bureaucrats, ministers, activists, climate skeptics, industry lobbyists, and students are packing their bags and making last-minute preparations for their descent upon the small Indonesian island of Bali, for two weeks of hashing it out on what the world's going to do next on the issue of global warming. Anyone who has anything (good or bad) to do with this problem will be there -- w ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, Indonesia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Somebody didn't get the environment vs. economy memo Over 150 companies worldwide sign climate petition in advance of Bali	David Roberts	29 Nov 2007	Gristmill
More than 150 companies worldwide, representing some $4 trillion in market valuation, have signed the Bali Communiqu�: As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting: The economic and geopolitical costs of unabated climate change could be very severe and globally disruptive. All countries and economies will be affected, but it will be the poorest countries that will su ...
Topics: Bali 07, business, climate, economy, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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