Friday marked the end of the week-long October international climate meeting (11th part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action) in Bonn, a runup to the first global climate change agreement in 18 years this December. As at previous meetings, … [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]
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]
Australia’s emission reduction targets are woefully inadequate, according to Climate Action Tracker, which found Australia to have one of the weakest climate targets in the world. On August 11th, Australia submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the Paris Climate Agreement of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030 of … [continued]
We called it four days ago: the Clean Power Plan seeks to accelerate wind and solar development at the expense of natural gas to replace coal.
The Obama Administration is dropping hints that the EPA Clean Power Plan will focus on wind and solar to accelerate the transition out of coal power plants.
At long last, Japan has entered its official Intended Nationally Determined Contribution into the pool of national climate pledges for the UN’s Paris COP21 talks in December. The Paris summit aims for a worldwide agreement to limit global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, … [continued]
Many billions of dollars of economic benefits could be generated via the implementation of strong international climate policies, according to a new report from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report argues that lack of action (a projected scenario where atmospheric CO2 levels hit 800 parts per million) would … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Solar power costs have come down so much in recent years that going solar is a no-brainer money-maker for millions of people. That increasingly includes low- and moderate-income people as well as rich people. Affordable solar power seems as abundant and as popular as ice cream … [continued]
A ten-day meeting to hone the draft text of the Paris 2015 universal climate agreement has begun in Bonn, Germany. Presidents of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Lima COP20 (Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the deft and diplomatic Environment Minister of Peru) and the upcoming Paris COP21 meetings (Laurent Fabius, who is … [continued]
