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Yvo de Boer, the Dutch diplomat who has guided international climate change negotiations over the last four years, announced that he would be resigning from his post effective July 1, 2010. Although he said he had been considering the decision before the Copenhagen conference in December 2009, Mr. de Boer has been frustrated with the slow [...] The 2000s Decade the Warmest in Memory The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Copenhagen is now 5 days old. As expected, the gathering of 193 country delegates and a combined 16,500 international negotiators, NGO representatives, activists, and journalists at the Bella Center is showcasing some of the most difficult political and economic challenges facing the global community [...] On Monday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a declaration that outlines its authority and rational to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs). The EPA press release read, “greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat.” U.S. EPA [...] Check Your Head The climate change conference at Copenhagen begins in just a few days. Delegates from countries all over the world will be gathering to discuss the next steps of global climate mitigation and adaption targets to be put in place for 2012 when the Kyoto Protocol will expire. In just the last few weeks, there [...] Hot off the press is a new global climate change synthesis report by some of the world’s leading scientists. The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science is a review of the hundreds of scientific papers published since the 2007 IPCC fourth assessment report (AR4), and presents a sobering update on the [...] |
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