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U.S. Delegation Offers Up Clean Coal Side Event at COP23

Thomas Schueneman November 13, 2017

Back in 2015 at the COP21 climate conference in Paris, the U.S. delegation presented numerous side events in the Blue Zone, from EPA, NASA, NOAA, the Department of Energy and more. The United States clearly embraced its role as a world leader at a historic global inflection point. Fast forward two years, to the end of […]Read More

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Sustainable Energy Advances, Obstacles Revealed during Vienna Energy Forum

Andrew Burger May 16, 2017

More than 1,200 high-level representatives across the government, public and private sector business world met in Austria May 11-12 to discuss the nuts and bolts, and ways to achieve, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, those related to the twin issues of climate change and energy. During the Vienna Energy Forum, the UN International […]Read More

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UN Clean Seas Campaign Aims to Eliminate Ocean Plastic

Andrew Burger March 1, 2017

Dell Computers and a cast of celebrities have joined UNEP's "Clean Seas Campaign" in a bid to eliminate ocean plastic.Read More

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Nations Accelerate Plans to Realize UN Biodiversity Conservation Goals

Andrew Burger December 6, 2016

Mexico established four new biological reserves and five other protected areas as representatives from more than 190 UN member nations adopted the Cancun Declaration, stepping up their efforts to conserve biological diversity. Will it be enough to curtail a Sixth Great Extinction?Read More

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Guarded Optimism – Can We Avoid a Climate Dystopia?

Thomas Schueneman November 4, 2016

It is official as of today, November 4, 2016: The Paris Agreement, adopted last December by 195 nations, comes into force. The process displays a political will rarely seen within the global community. Throughout the decades-long effort leading up to the Paris Agreement, fractious disunity, distrust, and disappointment has been the general order. What happened leading […]Read More

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UN Kigali Amendment Boosts Global Environmental, Climate Change Prospects

Andrew Burger October 18, 2016

National representatives to the UN Montreal Protocol took action to phase out production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) at a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda this past week. In addition to further reducing destruction of atmospheric ozone, the Kigali Agreement is expected to reduce projected mean global temperature rise 0.5 degrees Celsius over the course of the century.Read More

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COP21 Will Change the Course of History

Thomas Schueneman November 27, 2015

On November 30th, the world will come together in Paris for the start of the most important climate talks ever. After more than two decades of negotiations, the expectations are high and global leaders appear to be ready to sign a comprehensive climate deal that will spur unprecedented emissions reductions. If all goes as planned, the 21st annual session of the Conference of […]Read More

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