If you’ve been following the news, you probably know that the UN’s annual mega-conference to address climate change—officially, the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—started in Lima, Peru, yesterday morning, 1 December 2014. (For more information on the runup to the … [continued]
(Lima, Peru—29 November 2014) Thursday was Thanksgiving in the USA, but turkey wasn’t gracing holiday tables in Lima, Peru. I am headed for a midafternoon dinner of Sancochado, little-known outside South America but greatly prized within. The Andes foothills, their more distant peaks obscured by smog, rise sharply to the … [continued]
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
As part of its plan to provide climate aid to the developing world, Japan has expanded the support it provides to the Caribbean countries.
The statistics regarding the production and subsequent consumption of food on our planet are staggering. With climate change affecting ecosystems the world over, including already-stressed regions, food security is a problem that is not going to go away anytime soon. On Wednesday, an independent commission of scientific leaders taken from … [continued]
Say what?
285 top investors who represent $20 trillion in assets pushed leaders of the world to take urgent climate change and clean energy action in a letter last week.
The deadline for agreeing to the Copenhagen Accord may have been dropped, but the pressure to agree to the Accord and to announce commitments to create cleaner energy sources and reduce pollution is still on. The US Climate Action Network (USCAN) is making it easier for all of us to … [continued]
