Maybe it’s time to renew my pledge to write more often about climate science and how it shapes the political debate.
Reuters reports on a new study that shows that under 10 percent of the articles written about last year’s United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen focused More…
The Washington Post reports on the difficult situation the United States is in going into United Nations climate change talks in Cancun at the end of the month.
The atmosphere is very different from a year ago, when U.S. negotiators headed to Copenhagen touting the recent success of a
President Obama, in a speech today to the United Nations General Assembly in New York:
As we combat the spread of deadly weapons, we’re also confronting the specter of climate change. After making historic investments in clean energy and efficiency at home, we helped forge an accord in Copenhagen that
U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern, briefing reporters yesterday in New York City after meetings with representatives from the world’s major economies, said he doesn’t expect a United Nations meeting scheduled for later this year to produce a binding climate treaty.
The scientific consensus on geoengineering has come a long way in the past few years. As recently as 2006, it was unthinkable to many climate scientists that leaders in their field would seriously consider the idea of shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere or dumping massive quantities of iron into More…
Following news that world leaders had reached a climate deal, President Obama just held a press conference in Copenhagen, calling the agreement “an important milestone” and laying out the framework that will guide the steps toward a binding climate treaty.
The deal centered on “transparency, mitigation and finance,” he More…
World leaders in Copenhagen have reached a climate deal, albeit one that leaves many questions unresolved, The New York Times reports.
The breakthrough occurred after a dramatic incident in which President Obama “burst into a meeting of the Chinese, Indian and Brazilian leaders” over their objections, according to administration More…
If there’s any consistent message to be drawn from Copenhagen, it’s that no one has any idea what’s going on. Some recent tweets from the climate conference:
The central obstacles to an agreement at the Copenhagen climate conference today are Chinese resistance to international emissions verification and longstanding disagreements between developed and developing countries over the degree of climate action needed.
But there are other, more mundane concerns that could preclude a deal. Buried in a More…
President Obama’s address to the delegates may have been a flop, and the climate negotiations might be on the verge of collapse, but the White House is touting a different kind of progress on the margins of the Copenhagen conference:
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV AFTER MEETING
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