Tag: Copenhagen climate
How to Achieve a Global Climate Change Agreement
Written by Jonathan Hoekstra | November 16th, 2009
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What will a successful global climate change agreement look like? That question is only more important to ask in the wake of this weekend’s agreement by President Obama to a plan that will ask world leaders to reach a political agreement at this December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen, ahead of a more binding agreement [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9
Written by Bob Lalasz | November 9th, 2009
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That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup. Stop the itch of curiosity right here! Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator for a [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 6
Written by Bob Lalasz | November 6th, 2009
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U.S. fish stocks defecting to Canada? We can just see it now on Lou Dobbs Tonight…but remember where you heard it first — Cool, Green, Morning. Have a great weekend! Seems fishy, but overall U.S. water consumption has declined in the past 25 years — despite a growing population and increasing water use. Huh? Tina [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 5
Written by Bob Lalasz | November 5th, 2009
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Things are looking up today — climate talks are reportedly going well, America beats the world in geothermal R&D, and great white sharks now have their very own singles bar. Ain’t life Cool? How are things in Barcelona (aside from the shocking underperformance of its namesake soccer team this year)? For the climate talks now [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, August 28
Written by Bob Lalasz | August 28th, 2009
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Salmon return to Paris, green consumers are kind of self-centered and maybe even dumb, and it’s illegal to drive without your headlights on in Copenhagen — just a few of the many things we found for you today in Cool Green Morning: Conventional agriculture erodes farmland “at a rate similar to the biggest glaciers and [...]
Report from Bonn: Climate Adaptation and Wrangling ’200 Pages of Nonsense’
Written by Chrissy Schwinn | August 14th, 2009
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Here’s a guest post from Suzy Menazza, a senior policy advisor for The Nature Conservancy for the Asia-Pacific region, from the international climate negotiations just concluded in Bonn: Suzy Menazza: “What we have is 200 pages of incomprehensible nonsense” — that’s how UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo De Boer commented on the status of the negotiations [...]
