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Summit of its parts Bush administration, other G8 leaders agree to halve emissions by 2050	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today at the G8 summit, which began yesterday in Hokkaido, Japan, world leaders reached a landmark deal: agreeing to cut emissions in half by 2050. The leaders agreed to 'seriously consider' this goal last year, and six of the eight leaders have been trying desperately to get George Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- who continued to resist mandatory cuts as of Monday -- on board. That is, until a breakthrough today. Well, sort of: The Bush admi ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, international treaties, climate, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Summit like it hot G8 leaders head to Hokkaido where Bush and his sherpa will provide climate guidance	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, George W. Bush will travel to Hokkaido, Japan, for his eighth and final G8 summit, where climate change is likely to be the subject of heated (ahem) talks. At last year's meeting, leaders agreed to seriously consider a goal of cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050. But the Bush administration continues to resist mandatory targets, and in a speech on Wednesday, Bush made sure to again emphasize 'technologies' over regulation. 'I'll ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, George Bush, international treaties, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Maintaining relations Council on Foreign Relations releases new report on climate change and U.S. policy	Kate Sheppard	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Council on Foreign Relations released a new report this week on how the United States should approach foreign policy as it relates to climate change. 'Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy,' as one might expect, indicates that the U.S. needs to come up with a mandatory emissions reduction plan if it wants China, India, and other rapidly developing countries to sign on to a new global pact. 'Visible U.S. leadership is essential to getting ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, international treaties, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Taking the Pledge Five nations agree to think about ending oil subsidies	Ron Steenblik	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The day after markets registered the highest single-day rise in crude oil prices ever, the United States and Asia's four largest economies (Japan, China, India and South Korea), meeting in Aomori, Japan in advance of the G8 Energy Ministers summit, have formed a sort of Petro-holics non-Anonymous club, calling for an end to oil subsidies in their countries. Consumer subsidies (subsidized fuel prices), that is, not producer subsidies. OK, what they actually agreed upo ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, international treaties, oil (all these topics)

Notable quotable America's 21st century can't-do spirit	David Roberts	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'It's frankly not doable for us.' -- chief U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson, on the G8's proposal to reduce industrial countries' emissions 25-40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020
Topics: international treaties, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, quotables (all these topics)

Bonn of Contention Yet another international climate meeting gets rollin'		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:19 PM on 02 Jun 2008 Yet another round of international climate talks has kicked off, this time in Bonn, Germany. More than 2,000 delegates from 162 countries will chit-chat over the next two weeks about the details of an agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. But no significant steps forward are expected out of Bonn; most major decisions on the next treaty have been put off until 2009, when the U.S. delegat ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, international treaties, news (all these topics)

A Lung Time Coming Ozone-depleting asthma inhalers being phased out		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:27 AM on 02 Jun 2008 Asthma inhalers containing ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons will be phased out by the end of 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The phaseout of CFCs is required under the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty that the United States actually deigned to sign on to. Alternatives to CFC inhalers use hydrofluoroalkanem as a propellant; HFA inhalers may taste differe ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, green living, health, international treaties, news, ozone (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)

And Sorry Your Life Expectancy Is So Short Kyoto Protocol turns the big 1-0		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 9:15 AM on 11 Dec 2007 Happy 10th birthday, Kyoto Protocol! From the Archives They've Got It Down to a Science. House report condemns "systematic" Bush admin climate-science manipulation. West Laid Plans. Western states and feds agree to new pact on Colorado River drought rules. The Way the Bali Bounces. Bali conference goes into second week. News Archives
Topics: international treaties, news (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)

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)

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)

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 Would What's up with the climate conference in Bali?	Sarah K. Burkhalter	30 Nov 2007	Grist Feature
Have you been hearing chatter at cocktail parties and on witty webzines about a big climate-change bash in Bali? Wondering what the deal is? We're so glad you asked. The action in Bali isn't on the beach. Photo: iStockphoto The rumors are true: From Dec. 3 to Dec. 14, more than 15,000 people from 190 nations will gather in Bali, Indonesia: politicians, bureaucrats, nosy reporters, earnest activists -- th ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, international treaties (all these topics)

Hello, Bali What folks are saying about the upcoming Bali talks		28 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:58 AM on 28 Nov 2007 Representatives from nearly 200 nations will gather in Bali, Indonesia, next week to discuss what's to be done about this whole climate-change thing once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. So what's the word on the street? United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been clear about his expectations: "The world's scientists have spoken, clearly and with one voice. In Bali, I expect the wo ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international treaties, IPCC, news (all these topics)

Well, At Least We Didn't Have Our Hopes Up Asian countries sign on to vague climate pact		21 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:03 PM on 21 Nov 2007 Leaders of 14 Asian countries, along with Australia and New Zealand, have signed onto a climate pact that says -- well, nothing in particular, really. Maybe it's the thought that counts, but setting specific goals for addressing a rather important global crisis would count for a hell of a lot more. In our humble opinion. From the Archives So That's ...
Topics: Asia, climate, international politics, international treaties, news, politics (all these topics)

A Tip of the ICAP New partnership hopes to jumpstart global carbon market		29 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:24 PM on 29 Oct 2007 A whole slew of countries and states have signed on to a new International Carbon Action Partnership, with a goal of sharing knowledge about and standardizing best practices for what they hope will become a global cap-and-trade system. Participants include members of the Western Climate Initiative and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, as well as various European countries and New Zealand ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, international treaties, news, politics (all these topics)

We're Just Going Through a Phaseout Faster phaseout of ozone-damaging chemicals agreed to by 191 nations		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:51 AM on 24 Sep 2007 At the conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol last week, some 191 nations agreed to a faster phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals than had originally been negotiated in 1987. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons, or HCFCs, emerged in the 1990s as a less-ozone-damaging alternative to CFCs, which did truly nasty things to the ozone layer. But HCF ...
Topics: international treaties, news, ozone, United Nations (all these topics)

The Long, Hot Summit U.N. climate summit kicks off in New York; Bush preps for his own climate meeting in Washington		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:48 AM on 24 Sep 2007 Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and lots of other bigwigs and heads of state are gathering at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday for the most high-level climate summit ever, but one world leader will be noticeably absent: George W. Bush. The meeting is intended to build moment ...
Topics: George Bush, international treaties, United Nations (all these topics)

Sweet XVI Pope lauds Montreal Protocol, Vatican aims for carbon neutrality		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:18 PM on 17 Sep 2007 The Montreal Protocol turned 20 this weekend -- and you forgot to get it a gift, didn't you. As nearly 200 nations convene this week to discuss the protocol, which has been successful in spurring an international phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals, it has been lauded by no less a person than Pope Benedict XVI, who declared on Sunday, "In the last two decades, thanks to an exemplar ...
Topics: international treaties, Italy, news, ozone, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

They're Just Going Through a Phase Bush administration will propose quicker deadline for phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:05 PM on 07 Sep 2007 Nearly 200 nations will gather on Sept. 15 to discuss the Montreal Protocol, a 20-year-old treaty put into place to phase out the nasty chemicals that contribute to the thinning of the ozone layer. At the meeting, a dozen countries plan to suggest that participating nations move up the deadline for a full phaseout of refrigerating chemic ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, international treaties, news, ozone, politics (all these topics)

Viva Zap Canada, U.S., Mexico sign five-year energy pact		24 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Viva Zap Canada, U.S., Mexico sign five-year energy pact Will an energy pact between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico pave the way for alternative fuels or grease the skids for business as usual? Maybe a little of both. The five-year agreement, signed yesterday by Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, and Mexican Secretary of Ener ...
Topics: Canada, climate, energy, international treaties, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics)

Trade in the Shade Bush allows Democrats to attach eco-protections to trade agreements		15 May 2007	Daily Grist
Trade in the Shade Bush allows Democrats to attach eco-protections to trade agreements If the Decider isn't careful, he's going to become the Compromiser. Last week, President Bush and congressional Democrats worked out a deal that will attach environmental and labor protections to trade accords in the works with Colombia, Panama, Peru, and South Korea. The compromise will requi ...
Topics: Congress, international treaties, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Let's Give 'Em Something to Not Talk About U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft		14 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let's Give 'Em Something to Not Talk About U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft Here's a comforting thought for a Monday: your future is being played like a poker hand. Next month, the leaders of the G8 nations will meet in Germany along with the heads of China, India, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. With hopes of agreeing on climate-change action, Germany has circul ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, international treaties, news (all these topics)

Pact or Fiction? New Asia-Pacific climate pact is long on PR, short on substance	Amanda Griscom Little	04 Aug 2005	Muckraker
Staunch U.S. allies, enviro activists, and just about everyone else was caught flat-footed last week when the U.S., Australia, and four Asian countries unveiled a new pact intended to help curb greenhouse-gas emissions. In the days since, some details about the surprise alliance have trickled out, but its mission and intended impact remain murky. Known as the Asia-Pacific Par ...
Topics: Asia, Australia, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics)

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