The top UN climate negotiator Yvo de Boer lays out his four criteria that would make up a "strong political agreement" at Copenhagen. Watch.
At yesterday's House Committee on Foreign Affairs, UN Foundation head Sen. Tim Wirth* proposed creating a new high-level position in the State Department "to manage U.S.-China bilateral cooperation on a new model of sustainable growth based on increasing the use of clean energy."
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing this morning on international climate negotiations. Todd Stern, the administration's top international climate change negotiator, briefed the committee and was followed in a seperate hearing by UN Foundation head Sen. Tim Wirth (who had Stern's job during the Kyoto negotiations), Ellen Claussen of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Steve Groves of the Heritage Foundation.
By Aaron Wiener
U.N. climate change talks in Barcelona have gotten off to a rocky start, with around 50 African nations boycotting meetings in protest of the low emissions reduction targets set by the world's developed countries.
I am looking forward to Angela Merkel's address to the U.S. Congress today. (Watch it live). Next Monday is the 20th anniversery of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Knowing Merkel, I expect her to use the platform to impress upon the U.S.
Bleak news today for those hoping to one day see the iconic snow atop Kilimanjaro. You don't have much time left.
According to the author of a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that snow could be gone by 2022. In 2002, the same team predicted that ice levels would be where they are now. Since 1912, roughly 85 percent of the ice cover has disappeared.
First, the Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting, now the Nepalese government will show the perils of climate change to the Himalayan glaciers by convening the cabinet at 17,500 feet.
by Abhishek Nayak
This week at the Barcelona Climate Change talks, Yve de Boer, UN's top climate change official, will attempt to decrease the growing rift between the developed and the developing nations that threatens to sabotage all hopes of reaching an interim agreement at Copenhagen.
Ed note: This post is from Abhishek Nayak, who is part of the Indian Youth Delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Abishek recently deferred a semester to work as a researcher and analyst at the India office of New Energy Finance, world's leading provider of information and analysis in clean technology and carbon markets. He was also part of the founding team of Dhanax 's business to introduce retail investment in microcredit. He was a speaker at the FORTUNE Global Forum, 2007 and a student delegate to the 39th St Gallen symposium.