Video of Obama campaign advisor and IPCC coordinating lead author Dan Kammen’s plenary address before the Copenhagen Climate Congress (March 11, 2009), where he argues for urgent action to mitigate climate change through several approaches, including energy efficiency, energy grid infrastructure improvements, and setting a price of carbon.
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Dan Kammen's plenary address at the Copenhagen Climate Congress
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Low Carbon Zones: A transformational agenda for China and Europe
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Report: Low Carbon Zones: A transformational agenda for China and Europe
This report calls for cooperation between China and Europe in three areas, technology, finance, and market access, as well as for creation of special ‘Low Carbon Zones’ which would be modeled upon the ‘Special Economic Zones’ which played such a large role in China’s economic transformation.
New U.N. climate deal: not much bolder than Kyoto? | Reuters
Thursday, May 7th, 2009OSLO (Reuters) – A planned new U.N. climate pact is shaping up to be a mildly tougher version of the existing Kyoto Protocol rather than a bold treaty to save what U.S. President Barack Obama has called a “planet in peril.”
via New U.N. climate deal: not much bolder than Kyoto? | Green Business | Reuters.
Obama budget seeks end to Yucca nuclear waste dump | Green Business | Reuters
Thursday, May 7th, 2009‘WASHINGTON Reuters – The Obama administration said Thursday it wanted to officially terminate the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage waste site..’
via Obama budget seeks end to Yucca nuclear waste dump | Green Business | Reuters.
UC Berkeley Professor Dan Kammen calls for a cost of carbon
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Video of Professor Dan Kammen speaking before the Copenhagen Climate Congress (March 11, 2009), where he argues that it is more important that some mechanism of carbon cost is quickly implemented than for the world to loose more time debating over which cost mechanism is best (cap and trade, cap and dividend, or a carbon tax).
China to have 100 GW wind power energy capacity by 2020 : Xinhua
Monday, May 4th, 2009BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) — China plans to finish 100 gigawatts of wind power capacity by 2020 and expand its renewable energy consumption to 40 percent of the energy market by 2050.
via China to have 100 GW wind power energy capacity by 2020_English_Xinhua.
China triples wind power capacity goal: AFP
Monday, May 4th, 2009BEIJING (AFP) — China has more than tripled its target for wind power capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2020, likely making it the world’s fastest growing market for wind energy technology, state press said.
House climate bill markup plans uncertain as Dems lack votes
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Prospects of a House subcommittee markup next week on a major energy and global warming bill appear dim as the panel’s Democratic leaders head into the weekend without a clear signal that they have enough votes to move the legislation.
via House climate bill markup plans uncertain as Dems lack votes – NYTimes.com.
Al Gore calls on world to burn less wood and fuel to curb 'black carbon' | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009‘Soot from engines, forest fires and partly burned fuel is collecting in Arctic and causing north pole to warm at alarming rate
The world must burn less diesel and wood, Nobel peace prize-winner Al Gore said yesterday, as the soot produced is accelerating the melting of ice in polar and mountainous regions.’
Al Gore "Strongly Urges" Support of Climate Legislation
Monday, April 27th, 2009April 24, 2009. Al Gore appeared before before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to support the proposed climate change bill:
“…moreover the best way to secure a global agreement that guarantees that other nations will also reduce their global warming pollution is for our country to lead the world in meeting this historic challenge”