Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown
At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana Figueres, essentially the world’s top international climate negotiator, to discuss policy and business solutions for global warming. Figuere…Read the full story on TreeHugger
While we’ve received a healthy influx of signs that the world’s heavyweights aren’t planning on diversifying their energy portfolios to any radical degree in the near future — China building a submersible to dive 7,000 meters underwater to explore for oil among them — there are still reasons yet to be optimistic. Take this for example: the CEO of the largest mining company in the world, Australia’s BHP, ha…Read the full story on TreeHugger
We’ve had a pretty good run with this old planet of ours, haven’t we? Sure, she’s a tad crowded and a little polluted. Okay, so she might be running a little hotter than she did before too, but we’re getting by. One day, however, we may have to upgrade our cosmic home — you know, by moving to a place we can stretch out and that has a bit more Read the full story on TreeHugger
You’d be forgiven for thinking that AB 32, California’s climate change law, was truly controversial. Republican candidates running for office this year have taken to publicly bashing it, calling it a job killer and worse. And given that the effort to reign in carbon emissions on a national level just deflated because it was viewed by senators as too controversial as well, you might think that fighting climate change is a contentious issue across the board. Well, it’s not. No matter how badly California’s GOP hopefuls batter the law, the public st…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Over the last year or so, you may have noticed politicians using less and less direct language to discuss climate change. According to some polls, Americans were growing skeptical that man was causing global warming, a trend abetted by fierce public relations efforts from the fossil fuel industry and the Climate Gate non-scandal, which the media did a supremely poor job of covering accurately. But now, the noise from those ruckuses have faded out, and scientists are recording brand new…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The video above, courtesy TckTckTck, explains one of the under-the-radar issues that was present all through the COP15 talks and now is re-emerging at the Bonn climate talks. In short, “A handful of developed nations like Japan, Australia and Germany are playing all…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low-carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country’s first carbon taxes. Passed by a vote of 8-to-1 the tax applies to stationary emitters of CO2 releasing more than one million tons annually into the atmosphere. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
The disastrous oil crisis still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is only the most recent reminder that America is overdue to start a major transition to a clean energy economy. And meaningful energy reform is something that Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) has been pursuing for years. His book, Apollo’s Fire, co-authored with Bracken Hendricks and with a foreword by some guy named Bill Clinton, is a veritable road map to how the nat…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Well, the Kerry-Lieberman “American Power Act” climate bill has been announced–read the full version or, if you’ve got less time on your hands, the short summary–and it feels like deja vu.
The bill’s authors proclaim it will do everything for the United States short of ensuring an ample supply of apple pie for every citizen. Work-within-the-system commenters from Read the full story on TreeHugger
Well, the Kerry-Lieberman “American Power Act” climate bill has been announced–read the 
