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Cap and Fade

By JAMES HANSEN
Published: December 6, 2009

AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. It me… Continue

It's well-known that the United States and China are the two biggest greenhouse-gas polluters in the world. But relatively few people can name number three on that list. It's Indonesia, thanks to heavy deforestation:

It is that frenzied rate of deforestation that has propelled Indonesia, home to 237 million people, into its top-three spot in the global league table of climate change villains. According to a government report released last month, the destruction of forests and carbon-rich peatla… Continue

Selling Offsets By Mobile Phone in Ethiopia
By Jeffrey Marlow
PhotoVeli Pohjonen Small farmers near Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, are testing a carbon offset market facilitated by mobile phones.

One of the most daunting hurdles for the trade in carbon offsets is the logistical challenge of connecting customers — typically carbon dioxide emitting companies based in America or Europe — w… Continue

Since our launch this summer, it has been an exciting few months for the California Business Alliance for a Green Economy. We now have 170 businesses from around the state signed on in support of California’s climate and energy security plan, known as AB 32. Thank you all for providing this leadership in the business community – because you have shown your support, others are following.


The CA Business Alliance for a Green Economy is launching an Alliance web site in the next few weeks that wi… Continue

To heck with carbon dioxide. A new study performed by the London School of Economics suggests that, to fight climate change, governments should focus on another pollutant: us.

As in babies. New people.

Every new life, the report says, is a guarantee of new greenhouse gases, spewed out over decades of driving and electricity use. Seen in that light, we might be our own worst emissions.

The activist group that sponsored the report says birth control could be one of the world's best tools for fi… Continue