Dispatches from Durban: How do you spell “climate negotiations”?

Please join US CAN in welcoming our new Outreach Director, Justin(J.P.)Leous. J.P. arrived in Durban yesterday and will be actively engaged with members and friends. J.P. has extensive experience with community organizing, climate policy and non-profit management. J.P. comes to USCAN from The Wilderness Society where he covered a range of climate-related policy issues. J.P. [...]

The Dangers Of Delay

The Dangers of Delay In Bonn, Germany last week diplomats and climate advocates gathered to build on the international framework for climate cooperation. As the UNFCCC nears its 20th birthday, this annual session was marked by difficulties sorting out the wording and scope of the agenda of its ‘implementing’ bodies. Despite near universal acclaim for [...]

In Cancun, Negotiators Search For Agreement While Their Nations Push In Different Direction

On November 29 representatives from 190 countries will be in Cancun, Mexico for the 16th Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Late last week, following a two-day Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington, the Obama administration’s chief climate negotiator told reporters not to expect too [...]

Beneath the Bickering, Real Progress on Clean Energy, And Global Work Party Success

TIANJIN, China — On Monday, two days after the UNFCCC climate conference ended after six days of grudging negotiation, the sky above this busy city turned blue, the sun appeared for the first time in a week, and Tianjin’s angled skyline, not visible previously in the thick smog, appeared like a gleaming glass and steel [...]

Talk of Tianjin Climate Conference: China and U.S. Companies Are Electrifying The Car

TIANJIN, China – Whatever the differences that irked delegates from China and the United States during the six days of climate negotiations that ended here on Saturday, divisions principally defined by how each would control carbon emissions and measure progress, the unmistakable conclusion reached by most of the delegates and participants is how closely tied [...]

Despite Divide Inside the Tianjin Climate Conference, China and U.S. Cooperate To Deploy Advanced Coal Technology

TIANJIN, China – Though Chinese workers this week celebrated the 61st anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, a holiday season as significant as July 4 in the United States, a swarm of construction laborers at China’s GreenGen coal-fired gasification power plant were busy welding pipes, fitting massive joints, and bending steel [...]

Two Senior Diplomats Frustrated By Pace of Tianjin Climate Conference

TIANJIN, China — Two of the significant participants in the UN climate change conference here, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and chief U.S. negotiator Jonathan Pershing, have made it known they are increasingly unhappy with a tangled negotiating process that seems unable to move beyond producing more snags. Over the last 18 hours or so, [...]

Coal Is King In China, And Top Priority For Engineers Determined To Lower Climate Risks

TIANJIN, China – This industrious nation’s allegiance to construction projects of massive scale are as familiar to the world as the 2,500-year-old, 5,500-mile Great Wall of China, which protected the country’s northern frontier, and as imposing as the wide moats and towering red stone walls of the 600-year-old Forbidden City at the heart of Beijing. [...]

In Tianjin, China and U.S. Similarities Overshadow Differences

On opposite sides of the Pacific, leaders of the world’s two biggest carbon polluters are plainly thinking about clean energy to power up their economies and cool the climate. In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced their intention to extend vehicle efficiency standards that went into effect in [...]

Behind The Great Wall of Climate Change An American Artist Gaining Global Distinction

TIANJIN, China – In almost every way – timing, media coverage, official attention, and spirited engagement  –  the stamping of the Great Climate Wall of China with a Chinese proverb this morning was a triumph for its organizers — the Global Campaign For Climate Action (GCCA), Tck tck tck, and Greenpeace. It also was another [...]

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