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Critics of George Bush say he has led us into a quagmire in Iraq during the last decade from which we will never emerge. They say his way of doing business led to all the disagreements visible in the Copenhagen climate talks. They're wrong.<br />
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A few inconvenient truths about money and property underlie most of the topics on the tongues of negotiators and business people alike -- truths that are largely the reason that a complete, detailed world climate agreement could not be reached there.
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The U.S., China, Brazil, India and South Africa reached a modest climate change agreement in Copenhagen late Friday that aims to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius and address several other issues that had deadlocked the talks over the last two weeks.
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We need to find more creative ways to communicate about the climate crisis. An example is the beautiful three-minute film from Maya Lin, which made its debut at a gala on behalf of REDD organized by the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.
by Marc Gunther
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We have not accepted the scale of the problem, nor have we established the political conditions necessary to fix the problem when we do. Yet Copenhagen does signify the shift between two eras, and if you watch carefully, you can see the new world emerging.
by Paul Gilding
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The U.N. hekd an unusually uplifting dinner last night that featured heavyweights Ban Ki Moon, Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry, each of whom laid out their vision for a deal at COP-15 and a climate bill next spring in the U.S. They are convinced that we will have an international agreement and an American bill, both of which can lead to the innovations we need to change the chemistry of the atmosphere that we have tampered with so severely.
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While serious discussion has taken place at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, the lack of any concrete policy so far shouldn't stop us from making real progress when it comes to providing cleaner, smarter, more efficient energy options.
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Conditional backing for E.U. funding proposal offered, in return for Chinese concessions on greenhouse gas emissions transparency
by James Murray
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Energy efficiency giant Johnson Controls has joined The Climate Group, the international nonprofit focused on finding smart policies and technologies to cut global emissions and advance development of a low-carbon economy.
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Amid the declarations and speeches, however, it is important to remember that even the best possible Copenhagen outcome will be a waypoint, not an endpoint, and one that must lead to a legally binding climate agreement, concluded in 2010.
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Climate change reporting may not grab attention in the same way as Schwarzenegger's arrival in Copenhagen does, but it has emerged as a critical area of focus. It is both necessary and important to gain some convergence between corporate and national regulatory reporting systems. Without it, global businesses will be subject to considerable challenges as they face an increasing number of reporting requirements around the world.
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The trumped-up "Climate Gate" scandal has drawn an inordinate amount of attention during the Copenhagen meetings, with climate change deniers using fairly innocuous evidence of a few researchers squabbling to question the integrity of all climate science.
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As if in response to yesterdays blog about feeling the pressure, Gordon Brown will grace COP15 with his presence a day early, the Governator is already walking the halls, none of the parties negotiating the fine detail of the treaties had much sleep last night and are shipping in industrial strength coffee for this evening.
by Miles Austin
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Although some nations are urging world leaders to stick with an extended Kyoto Protocol, skeptics are aware that its reliance on carbon markets have failed to stimulate major reductions in emissions; delegates and business leaders are searching for an alternative to the carbon marketplace.
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In a sense, the work being done this week in Copenhagen is really about saving on the Earth's electric -- and water -- bill.<br />
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The EU is struggling to reach €3 billion in aid for developing countries to fight climate change, urging them to do more for themselves while also cutting the amount of Certified Emission Reductions that can be imported into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
by Miles Austin
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The fact that the U.S. has yet to create a single offshore wind farm (while Denmark generates 20 percent of its energy from wind) represents a huge missed opportunity, but one that could easily be changed.
by Marc Gunther
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The new bipartisan framework for climate legislation will help negotiators in Copenhagen better understand where the Senate stands.
by John Larsen
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Today, the most famous building in San Francisco is also one of the most environmentally friendly in the country. The Transamerica Pyramid building has achieved a LEED Gold certification.
by Gavin Newsom
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It's been an interesting several days on the green building policy front. Is the glass half empty or half full? I'm an optimist, so I opt for half full, but you be the judge.
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Friday was dubbed 'Business Day' here in Copenhagen — a chance for the corporate community to come together to discuss their considerable role in addressing climate change.
by Joel Makower
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The other day, I took a spin around your nation’s capital in what is being touted as the first affordable electric car that will find its way onto America’s roads: It’s the Coda.
by Marc Gunther
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For the business community, the place to find out what has and is taking place at the COP15 climate conference is the daily BINGO meetings, which stands for Business and Industry Non Governmental Organizations. On the third day of the conference, the BINGO meeting saw debate over a controversial Danish text some say favors developed countries, while separately, the island of Tuvalu asked for the conference to be suspended until developed countries take on legally binding targets.
by Miles Austin
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At the end of his life, George Orwell wrote a brilliant short essay called "You and the A-Bomb." In two pages, he summed up why the A-Bomb changed his life in industrial society. It is the same now with climate change. You and climate change are forever different.
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With the scientific and policy trends pointing to increasing and unprecedented levels of consensus on the scale of global emissions reductions, corporate GHG reduction strategies remain non-transparent, non-standard and non-verifiable. Autodesk makes the case for C-FACT, its new method of determining the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it should reduce every year.