On Tuesday morning, President Obama is expected to add details to a new program that will create jobs and cut needless energy consumption through home retrofits. This follows Obama’s request to Congress last week to create a new program to provide incentives to home owners who retrofit their homes to be more energy efficient.
Copenhagen, Denmark — With available funds for climate change adaptation far below the amount deemed necessary for developing nations to cope in a warmer climate, international leaders have begun informally discussing the formation of a hierarchy to decide which countries would receive the earliest funds.
As the planet’s environmental movers and shakers convene to hammer out some form of agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, however inadequate it is likely to be, at least they are lucky to be in one of the most walkable cities in the world.
An important agreement was reached today. It’s an agreement that will protect the health of some of our most vulnerable populations. It’s also an agreement that demonstrates that with hard work, community groups, environmentalists, and government agencies can come together to make good things happen.
The EPA is gathering information to support new rules that will help prevent dirty stormwater from ending up in our rivers and beaches. While they might sound like obscure regulations, they could in fact help change our built landscape, our waterways--and our checkbooks--for the better.
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 would slow the growth of their global warming pollution by 2020.
Copenhagen, Denmark - As international delegates arrive at the United Nations climate summit today, developing-country negotiators are waiting for the industrialized world to clarify how much money will be on the table.
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 have taken us and where we are headed.
As I've said before, there are 6 key elements to the international agreement:
U.S. climate politics loom large on the global stage. The twists and turns of Senate deliberations have long been a favored topic for the world's ‘Climaterati.' But as India's Prime Minister makes his inaugural visit to Washington this week for his first formal meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, it is worth recalling that other countries have complex climate politics, too.
