Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Negotiation Series, Copenhagen / COP15, Featured on 29th January, 2010 | 3 Comments
“Owning the Story… and the Future” placed in context the clamor for a streamlined climate negotiation process deemphasizing the United Nations, exposing the underlying disdain for democracy and bias against developing nations, the roots of dissatisfaction with the United Nations in U.S. climate negotiation strategy, and the apparent lack of global support for significant change »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Negotiation Series, Copenhagen / COP15 on 20th January, 2010 | 1 Comment
The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen drew to a close on Saturday, December 19th, but the effort to control the outcome of the conference has just begun. The United States is at the center of a major push, currently underway, to own the story of Copenhagen and thereby to hopefully drive the course of »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 23rd June, 2009 | No Comments
Most of the climate geeks I know, including me, are obsessed with tracking the progress of either the Waxman-Markey climate bill (ACES), or the international climate negotiations leading up to the big United Nations Climate Change Conference this December in Copenhagen, or both. We read everything we can get our hands on, talk to each »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 19th June, 2009 | No Comments
I received an invitation recently to participate in a discussion with “clean tech” leaders and congressional staff about how to get green technologies into the hands of developing world countries through mechanisms associated with an international climate agreement. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to talk about this because it should be a key element »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15 on 18th June, 2009 | 4 Comments
There is spreading pessimism about the prospects for a global climate deal in Copenhagen this December. Todd Stern, the US Special Envoy on Climate Change, just returned from a trip to China, where he had high level discussions about forging the basis for an agreement with the Chinese. There was no substantive progress to report. »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Copenhagen / COP15 on 14th June, 2009 | 1 Comment
Delegates from around the world met in Bonn during the first two weeks of June to work on preparations for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. At the closing plenary of those meetings, Lim Li Lin of the Third World Network assessed the negotiating position of the developed countries. We already posted »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Copenhagen / COP15 on 14th June, 2009 | 7 Comments
Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fourth Assessment Report, detailing the world scientific community’s consensus on the status of climate change. The IPCC report was frightening, predicting between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius of temperature rise by 2100 without action to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But events have »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 14th June, 2009 | 4 Comments
For the last several weeks, environmental groups have been struggling with how to respond to the Waxman-Markey climate bill now working its way through the House of Representatives. H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) is a huge and complex piece of legislation, running almost 1,000 pages in length. Waxman »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 11th June, 2009 | 2 Comments
There are a handful of people and organizations around the world that can be counted on to cut through the tangle of conflicting messages, revealing the social and economic justice foundations of international issues. Walden Bello and Focus on the Global South are at the head of that small list. Check out this video, the »
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