A FOUR-PART SERIES ON THE POPE’S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES On Thursday, Pope Francis came to the real political heart of his journey to Washington, which many characterized as an American history lesson. The Senate and House welcomed the pope in a joint session. The speech was one of four … [continued]
On Monday, the seventh Climate Week NYC began. It runs from September 21-28. The meeting brings together the global leaders in business, government, and society who are leading the transition to low or no carbon (see below). It has many important sponsors, some of whom lead the “good” climate business … [continued]
As we reported last week, InsideClimate News has an investigative series going about Exxon (a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, called ExxonMobil since 1999) quietly studying fossil fuels and global warming. Reporters at ICN’s Pulitzer Prize-winning website searched the record and interviewed retired Exxon employees and officials … [continued]
US and China climate leaders held a summit in Los Angeles on September 15–16. The meeting fulfilled a key element of the US–China Joint Announcement on Climate Change by Presidents Obama and Xi last November. It will help ensure that ambitious actions on the part of the #1 and #2 carbon-polluting … [continued]
Two extensive studies released yesterday (September 16, 2015) reveal a long-term betrayal of the truth about climate by major US business identities. Make-believe corporate “persons” have knowingly undermined the health, safety, and even short-term survival of real humans and other living things. One of the studies explores the metamorphosis of … [continued]
To highlight the plea by Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, that all people of good will respond to the moral imperative of solving climate change, faith leaders today hand-delivered “Laudato Si’,” the Pope’s first complete encyclical to the faithful, to all Catholic members of … [continued]
Earlier this week, the French government hosted another round of a series of informal leadership consultations on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The climate talks helped prepare for November-December’s 21st UNFCCC’s Conference of Parties. Earlier this year, Laurent Fabius, French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development and President of … [continued]
So, how are things going partway into the five-day Bonn climate negotiating session of the UN’s “Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform”? [Reminder: as of Thursday noontime, there are only 6.5 more official session days, including the week in Bonn again on October 19-23, before the final Paris … [continued]
Not upstaging, but as an important adjunct to the UN’s ADP negotiations that started today in Bonn, Germany, the one-day Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience took place in Anchorage, Alaska. Otherwise known as the GLACIER summit, the talks proceeded on two parallel tracks … [continued]
The official climate talks of the UN’s Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP) restarted in Bonn, Germany, today. The second-to-last of a series of 2015 weeks-long negotiating sessions on UN climate action before the critical Paris conference in December, they are designed to bring the world closer … [continued]
