Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
It is almost 3 months after the Copenhagen Accord was hammered out by 28 of the world’s key countries that represent over 80% of the world’s global warming pollution and some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has just announced his resignation. So this is sparking two questions: where are we after his four year tenure and where do we head from here? ...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
As I mentioned here by the end of January countries were to register their actions to reduce global warming pollution as agreed under the Copenhagen Accord. And by deadline countries accounting for over 80% of the world’s global warming pollution...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
As a part of our effort to track progress towards countries commitments (see our new website From Copenhagen Accord to Climate Action), we’ll be inviting guest posts from key individuals and organizations in the particular country. This is a guest...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
In December 2009, more than 120 Heads of Government attended the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, the largest meeting of world leaders in history (the previous largest one was the funeral of the Pope according to Wikipedia). Many of the leaders...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Countries representing over 80% of the world’s global warming pollution left Copenhagen committed to reduce their pollution. As we discussed here and here, this was a significant step forward in international efforts to address global warming. And by the end...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
In the late morning hours Saturday in Copenhagen, the overwhelming majority of countries adopted a new framework for addressing global warming. This new agreement -- called the Copenhagen Accord (available here) -- was hammered out by 28 of the...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Wow! Has it really only been a week of the international global warming negotiations in Copenhagen. Based upon the intensity of the debate you would think that we are down to the wire in the second week of the...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Danish Text? Yes the draft negotiating text that was “secretly” developed by the Danes to try to move the world forward on addressing global warming pollution. Would that be the text that certain countries can’t remember having seen? The text...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
In a little bit of very positive news just before the global warming negotiations began here in Copenhagen another key developing country came forward with a clear sign of the steps that they’ll take. South Africa announced that they...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
As I discussed in Part 3 we have seen significant progress on the willingness of developing countries to undertake significant emissions reductions on their own. All the major emerging economies have now outlined specific efforts that they'll undertake to...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
There was an extensive debate in the lead-in to the Kyoto Protocol (and after) about whether incentives for reducing deforestation would be recognized as a part of the agreement. For a number of reasons countries didn’t agree to include deforestation...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
"If only developing countries would take action to reduce their global warming pollution". That is the refrain that was heard in capitals around the world for years. This was driven partly by a concern over competitiveness in some places (e.g., the...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
One of the six key elements of the international agreement is: strong leadership from developed countries with firm and aggressive emissions reductions targets in the near-term (e.g., 2020 and 2030) and strong signals that they will significantly reduce emissions in...continued→
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
As we are quickly approaching the final stretch before the Copenhagen climate negotiations (just a week to go before it begins), I thought I would try to give a quick summary of where the past 2 years of international negotiations...continued→
