What could prove to be a critical component in the effort to successfully confront the climate crisis was launched today by Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington. Secretary Clinton announced the formation of the “Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants.” What are these short-lived climate pollutants? Methane, black carbon […]
The year is certainly not over yet – the annual international UN climate conference is ongoing in South Africa for the next ten days. Nevertheless, here’s a quick look at what we’ve seen – and what we might expect in 2012. Casting back to my look at 2010 and beyond, I predicted witch hunts from […]
The UN Security Council met this week to consider whether or not climate change constituted a threat to international peace and security and, if so, what to do about it. As Deutsche Welle puts it here, “What might appear self-evident to many took days of complicated discussions and negotiations…” If droughts, heat waves, fires, ever-intensifying […]
(For more on this graphic, go here.) The venerable Matt Wald at the NY Times reported the other day that CO2 emissions in the US peaked in 2005 and, according to the latest estimates, we’re not going back to those numbers until ten years down the road. How come? In part – and in part […]
Today is World Water Day. There are events going on all over the world to mark this year’s theme: Clean Water for a Healthy World. You can find some excellent reading here, and you might want to view this video, Water: The Drop of Life. UNDP notes here that, worldwide, 2.6 billion people lack proper […]