Copenhagen Accord Weekly Roundup: Bonn Edition

In the last two weeks, Belize, Burundi, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste have associated with the Copenhagen Accord. Tunisia, already associated, submitted actions. Venezuela has reiterated that it will not associate. See Who’s On Board With the Copenhagen Accord. Delegates are meeting in Bonn this week and next for a UNFCCC intersessional, spending much [...]

Gulf Oil Disaster Prompts Calls For Comprehensive Solution: President Obama and advocates press for new national climate and energy bill

By Keith Schneider US Climate Action Network On June 2, a day before BP announced it had sheared through a leaking pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the very few steps forward in the company’s 44-day campaign to staunch the worst oil disaster in American history, President Barack Obama pressed [...]

Arctic Spill Response and Other Hot Reads

Spill Response. A new report by WWF reviews the U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) “Arctic Oil Spill Response Research and Development Program – A Decade of Achievement.” They find that some progress has been made in spill response, but the US is still ill-prepared for arctic offshore development.  One of the [...]

Goodbye Gas Guzzlers: Climate Action Hotline, May 21

May 21, 2010 President Obama on Friday directed the EPA and the Transportation Department to develop a national policy to increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from medium and heavy-duty trucks in time for the 2014 model year. The action comes almost exactly one year (May 19, 2009) after President Obama set new [...]

Copenhagen Accord Weekly Round Up (May 14)

In the last two weeks, Togo has associated with the Copenhagen Accord. Media reports indicate that Tuvalu will not associate (see below) while Bolivia’s UN submission reaffirmed they also will not engage. See Who’s On Board With the Copenhagen Accord. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted the Petersburg Climate Dialogue earlier this month, urging environmental ministers from [...]

Earth, Wind, and Fire On Day of Onrushing Risks

By Keith Schneider The accelerating consequences of the warming Earth, the hazards associated with increasing reliance on fossil fuels, the promise of big clean energy projects, and the difficulties in advancing a national climate and energy policy fit for the 21st century came into sharp focus today in Washington and across the nation. In Boston, [...]

Copenhagen Accord Weekly Roundup: April 28

USCAN is tracking intel and developments surrounding the Copenhagen Accord. Here’s what has happened since our last update on April 14: In the last two weeks, Barbados, Mozambique, Uganda and Ukraine have associated with the Copenhagen Accord. San Marino, which had already associated, submitted actions. See Who’s On Board With the Copenhagen Accord. Current Copenhagen [...]

Climategate Debunked: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 16

April 16, 2010 Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia Last year during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, The Guardian newspaper’s respected environmental columnist, George Monbiot, described in painful and often hilarious detail the trail of missteps and communications blunders at East Anglia University that turned a deceitful email hack job into a [...]

Copenhagen Accord: What’s Hot This Week

USCAN is tracking intel and developments surrounding the Copenhagen Accord. Here’s the very latest: Margaret Mukahanan-Sangarwe, the Chair of the Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA) negotiating track, was given leeway by delegates at the Bonn talks last weekend to prep text ahead of the June intercessional “under her own responsibility.” While there had been debate about [...]

US: Copenhagen Accord Not A ‘Casual Agreement,’ Cuts Detractors’ Funding

On the first day of the UN climate negotiations in Bonn — also the first day of climate talks since Copenhagen — the United States firmly stood by the Copenhagen Accord. During the opening plenary, the American delegation said the Copenhagen Accord should be the basis of negotiations going forward. In effect, they said, the [...]

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