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Five environmental stories to warm the heart
Hippyshopper —
... It's been a week of doom and gloom on the environmental front, what with the news that Obama will have to put some of his most important green projects on hold and that sea levels may now be on an unstoppable mission to ...
U.N. Climate Chief Warns Against Expecting Strong Commitments from U.S.
Yale Environment 360 —
... they’re not coming back with a blank check.” After his election, Obama proposed the U.S. reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent to 1990 levels by 2020 as part of the U.N. treaty. But Todd Stern, Obama's chief negotiator in the climate talks, said this month that the U.S. could not make the steeper cuts set out by the U.N. Climate Panel, since it was now "beyond the realm of the feasible." According to a Guardian report, unnamed Obama officials have warned that the president may have to delay signing on to the climate agreement in Copenhagen because ...
Sizing up the road to Copenhagen: the U.S. prepares for climate change negotiations
The Energy Collective —
... Still, sufficient political support within the Senate for U.S. commitments to a binding international agreement on climate change may be hard for Obama to win by December, and signing an agreement without this support risks confirming Stern’s concerns that Copenhagen go the way of the Kyoto Protocol. ...
Lowered Expectations at the Bonn Talks
FUTURISM NOW —
... coming back with a blank check.” After his election, Obama proposed the U.S. reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent to 1990 levels by 2020 as part of the U.N. treaty. But Todd Stern, Obama’s chief negotiator in the climate talks, said this month that the U.S. could not make the steeper cuts set out by the U.N. Climate Panel, since it was now “beyond the realm of the feasible.” According to a Guardian report, unnamed Obama officials have warned that the president may have to delay signing on to the climate agreement in Copenhagen because of ...
