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  • Quick thoughts on the new climate deal?

    Rhiya TrivediClimate activist and first-year student at Middlebury College All I can really say at this point, having just run to the screen with President Obama’s press conference with all the other fools who believed that this might be worth our time, is that the time for “meaningful first steps” is long, long gone. You […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • Transcript: President Obama’s remarks to press about climate accord

    Just before departing Copenhagen for Washington, President Obama made a brief appearance before the White House traveling press corps. The transcript was provided by the White House press office. — THE PRESIDENT: Let me start with a statement and then I’ll take a couple of questions. Today we’ve made meaningful and unprecedented — made a […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • Final text of the Copenhagen Accord

    This is the text of the climate accord worked out by President Obama and the leaders of several key nations in Copenhagen on Dec. 18. In pursuit of the ultimate objective of the Convention as stated in its Article 2, Being guided by the principles and provisions of the Convention, Noting the results of work […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • What to make of second leaked U.N. doc and its sanctioned 3C rise in global temp?

    Earlier this week, yet another “leaked” U.N. document caused a fuss in Copenhagen. Leaked document #2, first reported on by the Guardian, showed that the commitments on the table for a post-Kyoto treaty would still allow for a potentially disastrous 3C temperature rise in global temperature. Bill McKibben of 350.org, whose name was mysteriously scrawled […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy