September 17th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Now that the Trump administration has slashed NASA's climate research budget, California governor Jerry Brown has said his state will launch its own satellite to find where carbon and methane emissions are coming from and make the information available to the public.
June 2nd, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Donald Trump has decided to abrogate the US commitment to the Paris climate accords. In response, Elon Musk has withdrawn his membership on two advisory panels.
November 22nd, 2016 | by Steve Hanley
Donald Trump thinks he is the smartest person in any room but the leaders of 365 leaders of major American corporations think he is an idiot for threatening to pull the US out of its commitments made last year in Paris.
November 16th, 2016 | by Sandy Dechert
US Secretary of State John Kerry gave one of the most important speeches this morning during the Major Economies Forum of the UN’s climate change conference (COP22) in Marrakesh, Morocco. Kerry drew attention to melting glaciers, stronger storms, and record-breaking droughts as incontrovertible evidence of climate change. "At some point, even the strongest skeptic has to acknowledge that something disturbing is happening," Kerry said
October 18th, 2016 | by Sandy Dechert
Delegates from more than 150 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, last week, to agree on a strategy for diminishing [&hellip
September 21st, 2016 | by Sandy Dechert
Both United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry (quoting President Obama), affirmed the viability of [&hellip
December 9th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Laurent Fabius, COP21 president and France’s foreign minister, has just released version 1 of a draft text on COP21 agenda [&hellip
December 9th, 2015 | by Roy L Hales
Originally published on the ECOreport. The Guardian‘s headlines say it all: “Biggest Polluters Back Tougher Warming Target.” The United States, [&hellip
December 6th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban part of the COP21 meeting in Paris sewed up its last draft in the [&hellip
November 7th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
President Obama dropped plenty of hints about the demise of the Keystone XL oil pipeline going back to 2013, when he appointed John Kerry to the State Dept
September 1st, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Not upstaging, but as an important adjunct to the UN’s ADP negotiations that started today in Bonn, Germany, the one-day [&hellip
August 12th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
TransCanada, owner of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, has been quietly preparing to hear the Obama Administration say, "You're fired!"
July 4th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is one of the 44 countries that have submitted emissions pledges to the official [&hellip
May 28th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
Why the Keystone pipeline is toast: fossil industry digs in its heels, but US Secretary of State John Kerry proposes an end run around carbon pricing
May 7th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
Ask almost anyone about the main national priorities of the US, and you’ll probably hear “democracy” and “continuing economic growth.” [&hellip
February 9th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
In this critical year for climate, the United States has just obtained a superior information and action tool in UNPRECEDENTED: Can Civilization [&hellip
January 25th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
The big news we’re hearing about Barack Obama this weekend has nothing to do with climate change: it’s that he’s [&hellip
December 12th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
It’s 6 am in Lima. Dawn has broken, songbirds are waking, the West Peruvian doves have resumed their eerie low [&hellip
December 9th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Cautious optimism from recent world progress (the US-China agreements, Green Climate Fund pledges, other international commitments) marked the first week [&hellip
April 5th, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
With this week’s release of the latest IPCC report, over 300 scientists, citing 12,000 scholarly reports, determined that no one on [&hellip
