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Foundations Join Forces to Fight Climate Change
FUTURISM NOW —
... Now, the foundation has “ramped up” the amount of money that will go primarily to two other groups working on climate change policy and strategy. About $5 million a year is usually slated for the Energy Foundation, and the rest will go to the ClimateWorks Foundation. ClimateWorks is represented in several countries, and is a network of specialists in climate change and clean technology. According to their website: ...
NYT’s Tom Friedman updates the global warming threat and spells out the solution
Climate Progress —
... .” Then he lays out the five key policies needed to avert this catastrophe, the “climate bailout.” He cites Hal Harvey, CEO of “a new $1 billion foundation, ClimateWorks , set up to accelerate the policy changes that can avoid climate catastrophe by taking climate policies from where they are working the best to the places where they are needed the most”:“There are five policies that can help us win the energy-climate battle, and each has been proven somewhere,” Harvey explained. First, building codes: California’s energy-efficient building and appliance codes now save ...
A primer on what it would take to fix climate
No Impact Man —
We've all been seeing what Obama believes is necessary for the economic bailout, but what is needed for the climate bailout? Here are the five policies that, according to New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, the new CEO of ClimateWorks, Hal Harvey, says we need:
First, building codes: "California’s energy-efficient building and appliance codes now save Californians $6 billion per year," Harvey told Friedman
Second, better vehicle fuel-efficiency standards: “The European Union’s
fuel-efficiency fleet average for new cars ...
Are E.U. Climate Ambitions Being Sidelined?
Green Inc. —
... numbers and it seems that the winner is the one who can get out of the negotiation with the smallest number and it shouldn’t be like that,” he said. “The dynamic should be more a competition for opportunities rather than burdens,” he said. Climate experts warn that the tussling will become worse and that it may ultimately undermine efforts to reach a deal unless negotiators refocus the debate in the coming weeks on what countries can achieve — rather than on what is comparable. ClimateWorks , a group based in San Francisco that helps finance projects to limit global warming, ...
A Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions From Deforestation
Green Inc. —
... and satellite images are taken into account, a model of carbon storage will be made available so that other land-management projects, like the broad initiative to combat deforestation, can use the system too. Mr. Steiner believes that the effort to reduce emissions stemming from deforestation would generate an important new source of income for the Lake Victoria region. “Fifteen years ago we never talked about carbon, and today it could become a major driver,” he said. Researchers at ClimateWorks , a San Fransisco-based group focused on reducing emissions, estimate that ...
