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Last year, the world celebrated the Paris climate deal. Less than a year later, elation has turned into depression. Who will assume leadership now?

After eight years of planning, funds have become available for the planned 310 megawatt (MW) Lake Turkana wind farm project estimated to cost $775 million – the largest private investment in Kenya’s history.

During President Obama’s recent trip spanning China, Myanmar and Australia, he along with Chinese President Xi Jingping announced what amounts to a historic agreement between the nations to reduce greenhouse emissions (amongst agreements to extend visas and trade deals to eliminate tariffs on IT products).

The countries of the European Union tend to be viewed as the main advocates at the national level for developing a more comprehensive and binding global plan to tackle climate change. As the EU pushes forward, other nations have been stuck in neutral or have been retrenching. With the European economy continuously struggling to pick […]

As immigration legislation is prodded through the U.S. Senate then likely to collect mothballs in the U.S. House of Representatives, and major Supreme Court decisions are announced, the executive branch has garnered a portion of the headlines. Ready to take on another challenge, President Obama laid out his plan to combat Climate Change – a […]

The United Nations climate change negotiations, or the long form: the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP) to the Kyoto Protocol, got underway today […]

The year is certainly not over yet – the annual international UN climate conference is ongoing in South Africa for the next ten days.  Nevertheless, here’s a quick look at what we’ve seen – and what we might expect in 2012. Casting back to my look at 2010 and beyond, I predicted witch hunts from […]

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came into being at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.  The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the convention got underway yesterday in Durban, South Africa.  There are 194 countries that are party to the convention, plus the European Union.  There are also […]

We’ve been on vacation – and happily quite busy – thus have I been away from blogging.  A little bit relative to the trip itself and some thoughts regarding sustainability, renewables, etc. perhaps in a couple of days.  For now, here’s this on some of the recent talks under the auspices of the Framework Convention. […]

– Overview – The Met Office in the UK reports that 2010 is on track to be the warmest or second-warmest year in the instrumental record.  Other science, based on massive data, supports that view.  (See graphic above and NOAA’s annual State of the Climate report.)  Meanwhile, the Post-Copenhagen international climate negotiations continued and culminated […]

I wrote about how a number of participants in Cancún felt that some sense of faith had been restored in the UN process.  The reviews are still coming in, but it appears that progress was indeed made, that some highly useful, indeed critical mechanisms have been advanced, and that ongoing negotiations are going to take […]

UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún delivers balanced package of decisions, restores faith in multilateral process is the official word.  The UNFCCC delegates, without all the hoopla of Copenhagen, appear to have materially advanced the cause of saving the planet – and all its people, now and for the future – from the depredations of […]