Tag archives for international climate policy
Posted by If the people expecting the world to end when the Mayan calendar does on Dec. 21 are right, then we probably don’t need an energy policy. But NASA has an ironclad case that they’re wrong, and not many people seem to be taking the doomsayers seriously. Just about everyone is doing their holiday shopping as…
Posted by Steady as we go with energy but definitely not on our climate target. Presidential Disconnect? A little more than two years ago in Copenhagen President Obama committed the United States (in a non-binding pledge) to work with the international community to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above…
Posted by In his first media interview since the Cancun climate talks, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations’ climate change science panel, talked to National Geographic about the progress he believes was made, and the steps ahead. Pachauri said he had not wanted to give “instant analysis” on Cancun, but to take time to digest what…
Maybe the hardest thing for Americans to accept about the energy challenge is that it isn’t all about us anymore. Whether they realize it or not, both sides of the argument in the United States tend to see the root causes the same way: it’s all about the American consumer. For environmentalists, the problem is…
Business to Governments: You Dance.
Posted by John Hickox on November 8, 2010 Today, climate change and sustainability issues are rising to the top of corporate agendas, and this is good news. Business will need to be deeply engaged in these issues if the efforts of governments are to be successfully leveraged. However, there is an important disconnect that needs to be addressed: a decided lack of clarity…
