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Climate Week 2009

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    ‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill

    Courtesy Climate SOSGlobal warming activists endorsed by the preeminent climatologist James Hansen are working to defeat the climate and energy bill in Congress, and they’re using some provocative stunts to spread their message. Briefly: Activists handed out fake $2 trillion bills at a rally for climate legislation in New York last week, criticizing the size […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Politics

  • G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves

    Let man tear asunder.On Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama formally announced that the world’s 20 major developed and developing nations had agreed to gradually eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies.  It was the only climate-specific policy directive to come out of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Pittsburgh, and it fell far short in the view of […]

    Emily Gertz Politics

  • Climate protesters hit the streets in Pittsburgh during G20 meeting

    Young activists from the Avaaz Action Factory joined the mass “People’s March” into downtown Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon, not far from the site of the G20 Summit, after holding their own climate-focused march in the morning.  Their Twitter-friendly slogan is “G20 Climate FAIL,” criticizing what they say has been a lack of action toward a […]

    Emily Gertz Politics

  • G20 needs to advance the global agenda on climate change

    Cross-posted from the Center for American Progress. The world’s leading economic powers remain inactive in preventing an increase in the serious impacts of climate change. While current impacts of climate change may not have reached alarming proportions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that will happen soon enough if we do not take […]

    John Podesta & Rajendra Pachauri Politics

  • Umbra’s top ten Climate Week moments

    Harrison Ford’s new earring, origami rainforests, flash mobs, crackdowns, Survivaball-wear, and so much more! Umbra Fisk does NYC’s Climate Week. Don’t miss her 10 Best Moments from the Big Apple’s climatic extravaganza.

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  • Actor Djimon Hounsou wants to show the human costs of climate change

    Djimon Hounsou at the U.N. Climate SummitPhoto: United NationsActor Djimon Hounsou is just as snacky in real life as he was on the big screen in Blood Diamond, The Island, and Gladiator.  Better yet, he’s also a climate activist and humanitarian. As a global ambassador for the aid and development group Oxfam, Hounsou has traveled […]

    Emily Gertz Culture

  • The Climate Post: Climate change blamed for New York midtown traffic

    First Things First: The journal Nature has published a study that attempts to find numerical “planetary boundaries” for global change, an effort that the authors believe will help policymakers better understand humanity’s impact on the planet and its life. A team of Earth scientists, led by the Stockholm Resilience Center, has identified and defined nine […]

    Eric Roston Politics

  • Seizing the opportunity: reflections from the U.N. Climate Summit

    Climate week began with world leaders participating in a full day of discussions on global warming. Over 100 world leaders were in attendance-the largest gathering of world leaders on global warming and the first in many respects. The leaders of a number of the key countries provided remarks. Yesterday’s events were intended to give a […]

    Jake Schmidt Politics

  • China steals Cimate Week spotlight, but U.S. still in the hot seat

    U.N. headquarters: Site of all the inaction.Photo: United NationsThe U.S. was given a starring role at the United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, but China stole the show. President Barack Obama had pride of place on the agenda, as the first head of state to speak to the gathered world leaders, ministers, and climate negotiators.  […]

    Emily Gertz Politics