Poland
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This year’s U.N. climate talks — brought to you by coal?
At the historically urgent global climate summit, Poland (and the U.S.) refuse to move beyond coal.
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Are Americans more worried about population than climate change?
A recent poll found 29 percent of Americans listing "overpopulation" as a major environmental challenge, while just 27 percent named global warming.
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Critical List: Wildfire threatens Los Alamos; a sweet electric bike
In Arizona, the wildfire is at the edge of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which has radioactive materials and other nasty stuff on the premises. It’s all safety stored, the government says. We’re also being told that everything’s cool at that nuclear plant in Nebraska that’s knee-deep in the flooded Mississippi.
China's going to run out of water within 30 years at current rates of consumption.
More people want their own personal wind turbine, but it's not a status symbol. Yet. -
Old growth, slow gain
Change is often incremental. Good change, usually glacial. That describes the update I recently received from a friend in Poland, anyhow, whose work I had just profiled in Earth Island Journal, here. His group’s efforts to win additional protections for the Bialowieza Primeval Forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Europe’s largest lowland old growth […]
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Pig Business: Who owns your food owns you
Ever feel like you were playing checkers and the other guy was playing chess? That’s the impression I get when watching many of the recent spate of food documentaries. Activists announce that this or that is wrong with the food system; on the rare occasion when something appears to be getting done about it, the […]
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U.S. negotiating team in Poznan dodges questions on Bush’s climate inactivism
Below is another dispatch from the climate talks in Poland by CAP Senior Fellow Andrew Light, first printed in WonkRoom. —– In one of the more surreal moments of this year’s U.N. climate change talks, Bush’s chief environmental adviser blamed Russia for the Bush administration’s climate change obstructionism. The U.S. negotiating team featuring James Connaughton, […]
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After Poland talks, a new reality starts to set in, says McKibben; 350 ppm must be the goal
I spent the last few nights of the recent Poznan climate conference sleeping in the By the Way youth hostel, an excellent accommodation filled with excellent young people who had done excellent work at the negotiations. After the final day of deliberations, many of these young people visited the doubtless excellent discotheques of Poznan, returning […]
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IYD: Next global climate agreement must safeguard survival of all countries, all peoples
This is a guest post from Poznan by David Sievers of SustainUS, an organization for 18-26 year-olds from the United States who are interested in engaging with global processes on sustainability. —– I am writing in the midst of a dramatic shift in global climate policy. The official President’s Summary of COP-14 bears witness to […]
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IYD: Next global climate agreement must safeguard survival of all countries, all peoples
I am writing in the midst of a dramatic shift in global climate policy. The official President’s Summary of COP-14 bears witness to this shift and signals the guiding principle of a just and equitable post-2012 climate agreement next year in Copenhagen. And this outcome is due in large part to the work of young […]