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		<title>The History of Global Climate Negotiations, in 83 Seconds</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/12/07/the-history-of-global-climate-negotiations-in-83-seconds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re having a bad day, know it could be worse. You could be one of the thousands of delegates, journalists or activists enduring the annual exercise in futility that is the U.N. climate summit. This year&#8217;s edition in the Middle Eastern city of Doha was meant to wrap up at the end of the day, but as is often the case with climate talks, the negotiations will almost surely be going into overtime. This despite the fact that very little progress is likely to come out of the talks, which are hung up over questions of climate aid for developing nations and the status of the now 15-year-old Kyoto Protocol. How did we get here? The good people at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research and the Research Council of Norway have put together a video that explains the background to the current deadlock in less than a minute and a half. If only it were this easy to figure out how to fix it. (Hat tip to Will Oremus at Slate for posting this video.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12284&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Rio+20 Unfolds, A U.N. Report Shows How Far We Have to Go to Save the Planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Yoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit, a new report released by the UNEP tracks progress on goals and sheds light on current challenges.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8839&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bienvenue au Canada: Welcome to Your Friendly Neighborhood Petro-State</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/12/14/bienvenue-au-canada-welcome-to-your-friendly-neighborhood-petrostate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a year in Canada as a teenager in 1993 and &#8217;94, living in the metro Toronto neighborhood of Scarborough, which for some reason Canadians think is hilarious. Aside from the unfortunate 1993 World Series — damn you, Joe Carter — I loved it. I was from white-bread suburban Pennsylvania, and Toronto was one of the most diverse cities in the world. But I loved Canada as a whole — President&#8217;s Choice cola, The Kids in the Hall, socialized medicine, bilingual political debates — for being everything the U.S. was not. The year I lived there, a cheery politician from Quebec named Jean Chrétien led the Liberal Party to victory in the national elections, ending nearly a decade of Conservative rule. Canada — with its official multicultural policies — was seen as a leader on human rights and the environment, a progressive counterweight to its lurching neighbor to the south. Remember when the Huffington Post-er boy Alec Baldwin pledged to move to Canada if George W. Bush won in 2004? Sure, he didn&#8217;t actually do it — and thank God, because of 30 Rock — but back then it still made sense to envision Canada as a haven for disaffected American liberals. Not so much any more, though. Any illusion that Canada remains a much more liberal place than the U.S. on the environment at least was shattered yesterday when Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent, just returned from the U.N. climate summit in the South African city of Durban, announced that the country would be formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, becoming the first nation to do so. As Kent put it: Kyoto – for Canada — is in the past. As such, we are invoking our legal right to formally withdraw. Canada&#8217;s actual decision isn&#8217;t surprising — Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been opposed to Kyoto since he took office in 2006, and Kent reportedly delayed the announcement until after Durban to avoid taking the focus off the U.N. talks (and probably to avoid even more criticism of Canada at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7481&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. Global-Warming Talks: Good for Diplomats, Indifferent for the Climate</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/12/11/u-n-global-warming-talks-good-for-diplomats-indifferent-for-the-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are deals and then there are deals. That&#8217;s my takeaway from the U.N. climate negotiations in the South African city of Durban, which finally concluded early Sunday local time — more than a day after the talks had been scheduled to end. Exhausted negotiators — seriously, look at these poor guys — managed to reach an agreement of sorts and stave off the total collapse of the U.N. climate process. Here&#8217;s how the Guardian reported it: The world is on track for a comprehensive global treaty on climate change for the first time after agreement was reached at talks in Durban in the early hours of Sunday morning. Negotiators agreed to start work on a new climate deal that would have legal force and, crucially, require both developed and developing countries to cut their carbon emissions. The terms now need to be agreed by 2015 and come into effect from 2020. &#8220;I salute the countries who made this agreement. They have all laid aside some cherished objectives of their own to meet a common purpose – a long-term solution to climate change,&#8221; said Christiana Figueres, the United Nations climate chief. That certainly sounds great. But it&#8217;s not exactly what happened. (MORE: Expect Big Talk in Durban, and Few Results) It&#8217;s true that negotiators from more than 190 countries did manage to reach agreement at Durban, one that — if looked at optimistically — moves the ball forward on international climate action. But for all the hours of negotiation, for all the anger and frustration, little was definitively accomplished at Durban — certainly not enough to make a dent in the rate of global warming. Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations — in a post well worth reading in full — lays it out. He notes that meaningful progress was made on the technical issues that tend to get forgotten — the fleshing out of a climate fund for developing nations, movement on avoiding deforestation. But much of the attention of activists and environmentalists has focused on the future of the Kyoto Protocol and the creation of a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7445&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As the U.N. Talks Climate, the World Keeps Warming</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/11/30/as-the-u-n-talks-climate-the-world-keeps-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, fine. It&#8217;s not quite the case—as you might have concluded from my Going Green piece earlier this week—that the U.N. climate negotiations, now under way in Durban, are completely useless. On Tuesday negotiators agreed on where next year&#8217;s summit should be held, with the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar just beating out South Korea. South Korea, you might know, has launched some of the most ambitious green energy investments in the world over the past few years. Qatar, on the other hand, has a per-capita greenhouse gas footprint of 55 tonnes, the highest in the world, and three times larger than the U.S. footprint. Moving on, while this year&#8217;s summit—and I&#8217;m guessing future summits as well—won&#8217;t come up with a comprehensive global deal, that doesn&#8217;t mean the meetings are completely useless. Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations has a good piece exploring how the international negotiations might be turned to a better use, by focusing on matters other than a legally binding treaty, like adaptation and technology diffusion. It&#8217;s worth reading. Meanwhile, as the delegates keep talking at Durban—or not—the world keeps warming. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced this week that the last 15 years have been the hottest on record, and included all 10 of the world&#8217;s hottest years. This year is likely to be the world&#8217;s 10th hottest year, and notably, the hottest La Nina year on record—a period when ocean temperatures and the climate as a whole are usually cooler. Said Michel Jarraud, the secretary-general of the WMO: Our science is solid and it proves unequivocally that the world is warming and that this warming is due to human activities. As if that weren&#8217;t enough, warming seems to be happening even faster in the far north, with temperatures in northern Russia 4 C above normal, and Arctic sea ice headed towards its second-lowest level on record. And it&#8217;s set to continue—Jarraud told delegates at Durban that the world was fast approaching a temperature rise of 2 to 2.4 C, which would be above the safe limit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7293&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is High-Speed Evolution an Answer to Climate Change?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/06/24/is-high-speed-evolution-an-answer-to-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Thean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe, like Al Gore, you believe we are our own worst enemies in battling climate change. You too might think politicians manufacture denial-rhetoric to appease special interest groups, that industries are stubborn and cowardly in their resistance to the facts, and that the media sees science as a playground for concocting deception and falsehood. If so, here&#8217;s some comforting news: Even as humans dither and deal and ignore the hard truth, evolution — nobody&#8217;s fool — is already hard at work preparing for a warmer, climatologically wilder world. According to a team of researchers at McGill University in Montreal, adaptation to climate change can happen on the fly, with some organisms able to make key evolutionary changes over the course of surprisingly few generations, keeping themselves and their gene-line thriving in a world that seems to be coming to pieces. To conduct their study, the scientists worked with a go-to species often used in genetics labs: baker&#8217;s yeast. What the organism lacks in complexity it makes up in the ease with which its simple genome can be deconstructed and understood. Lead author Andrew Gonzalez and his team tracked the fate of over 2,000 populations of yeast over a period of several months. Using a long-armed robot working round the clock, they simulated environmental stresses by exposing the yeast to high concentrations of salt, pressuring them to adapt or die in the same way that climate change forces higher animals to make similar choices. By the end of the experimental period, many of the yeast colonies had indeed successfully adjusted to the high-sodium conditions, thriving in an environment that once would have killed them. Such nimble adaptation is  known by geneticists as evolutionary rescue, and the researchers believe that the fact that the yeast do so well has hopeful implications for humans. “The same general processes are occurring whether it’s yeast or mammals,” Gonzalez said in a statement. Still, the study has some caveats. For one thing, while adaptation that takes place over just a few months seems lightning quick, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=5385&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Roundtable on the Future of Climate Policy</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/06/14/a-roundtable-on-the-future-of-climate-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was fortunate enough to have the chance to lead a symposium on the future of climate policy back in April for the progressive periodical Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. The transcript has just been published. I had great panelists: Joe Aldy, an assistant professor at Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School and the former White House adviser on energy and the environment under President Obama; Vicki Arroyo, the executive director of the Georgetown Climate Center; Alex Laskey, the president and founder of the energy efficiency company OPOWER; Manik Roy, the vice president of federal government outreach for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change; and Lexi Shultz, the legislative director for climate and energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. We were tasked with looking ahead to the state of climate policy in 10 years time: For this edition of “America 2021,” our roundtable series, we ask: Where will America be in ten years on the climate and energy front? What new problems will we be facing—and what old ones will still be plaguing us? And what policies and ideas do we need to enact in the intervening years to ensure that we’re in a much better place in 2021 than we are in 2011? The article—a polished transcript of our 90-minute discussion at Democracy&#8216;s office in Washington—is worth reading in full. It&#8217;s a dark, confused time for climate and energy policy—witness the zombie-like proceedings in Bonn, where the interim UN climate talks are currently taking place—but I think Shultz, in her conclusion, might be right, if only because she can&#8217;t be wrong: Shultz: Am I optimistic about 2021? I would say I am optimistic because I don’t think I could function if I weren’t. There will be a couple of political swings by 2021, from conservative to progressive and beyond, and hopefully that will make a difference. I am hopeful that the swing will make it so that some of our forecasts here about Republicans being in the right place, or at least less in the wrong place, will actually come<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=5136&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Cambodia, Monks Take on the Carbon Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 06:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just posted an interesting story to Time.com about a group of monks in northern Cambodia who are lobbying for over a dozen protected forests to go onto the global carbon market. This is exactly the kind of project that makes Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) so promising: protecting the forests in Oddar Meanchey province would be a win for the environment, a win for its sponsors  and a win for the monks and other residents who rely on forest for their livelihood. It&#8217;s also the kind of project that makes policy makers so nervous about REDD: Cambodia&#8217;s track record on illegal logging has been called into question many times before, and the government of the southeast Asian nation — through which any carbon offset funds would be funneled — routinely ranks among the most corrupt in the world, according to Transparency International. Read more from Brendan Brady here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4653&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Some Last Thoughts on the Cancún Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from Cancún, and I miss the weather there, if not the all-night hours of the assignment. You can read a longer version of my analysis of the conference over here, which includes some details on the last-minute drama as Bolivia tried to block adoption of the Cancún Agreements, only to be deftly overruled by Mexico. Juliet Eilperin and William Booth of the Washington Post have a good analysis of the summit, as does Richard Black of the BBC and Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones. Incidentally, it was remarkable—or perhaps not—how much smaller the media contingent was for Cancún compared to last year&#8217;s Copenhagen Summit, especially from the U.S., although the cooler spotlight may have actually helped diplomats get something done. NGOs were pretty happy in the immediate wake of the agreements—see Jake Schmidt of the Natural Resources Defense Council—although that was partially the result of the very low expectations going into the meeting, and a little bit of sleep deprivation. (When Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solon started filibustering Friday night, we were all preparing ourselves for the talks to go another 24 hours.) As Schmidt writes, the meeting did create the foundation for a new era of climate diplomacy, one where major developing nations are beginning to recognize their need to contribute to carbon cutting. It was also welcome to see India play a major role as a mediator between the U.S. and China, with Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh emerging as a key figure. As Fiona Harvey of the Financial Times writes today, Cancún did represent real progress. Still, the hardest parts of building a binding climate agreement were punted into the future, and there&#8217;s no guarantee they&#8217;ll be solved yet. Shadowing the talks was the unacknowledged fact that the U.S. is going backwards on climate and energy, with no chance of legislation and a Republican House whose science committee will be led by an 87-year-old who isn&#8217;t sure whether we face global warming or &#8220;global freezing.&#8221; The Cancún Agreements still contain talk of $100 billion in climate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2969&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: 5 Lessons from the U.N. Cancún Climate Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the disappointment of Copenhagen and a year when the viability of the UNFCC was repeatedly called into question, the world has its first new legal agreement on climate change in years. The deal is modest—there are no new binding pledges to cut carbon emissions, no hard figures in climate aid and some of the most difficult decisions, like the fate of Kyoto Protocol, have been punted to next year. But for the first time the world has a legal instrument that commits both developed and developing nations—including major emerging economies like China—to take climate action that will be transparent and measurable on the international stage. “Obviously this package is not going to solve climate change itself,” said an exhausted Todd Stern, the U.S. climate envoy, at a 5:30 AM press conference on Saturday. “But it is an important step forward.” That it is, though it leaves much more to do. But the Cancun Agreements, as they&#8217;re called, go beyond the politics of climate change. Here are five lessons from Cancun that should be kept in mind as we all head home: 1.Multilateralism Isn’t Quite Dead Yet: In the wake of last year’s Copenhagen Summit—which began and ended in disarray—there was no shortage of voices calling for an end to the U.N. climate system. The politics of the UNFCCC—demanding total consensus, dividing countries into strict developed and developing categories that had less and less meaning as carbon emissions skyrocketed from nations like China—seemed counterproductive for the age of global warming. A few small developing countries could stop progress cold, and negotiations were poisoned by paranoia and suspicion. Given that a relatively small number of large nations—the U.S., the Europeans, India, China, Brazil—were responsible for most of the carbon emissions on the planet, it seemed that the future for climate talks lay in more manageable institutions, like the G-20. But the U.N. process might still have some life yet. Thanks in part to transparent oversight by the host country Mexico—recognized by the countless standing ovations Espinosa received during the last sessions—negotiations<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2957&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: A Compromise Deal Is Sealed on Global Warming at Cancún [UPDATE 2]</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/12/10/climate-hints-of-positive-compromise-at-the-cancun-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update [3:28 AM CST 12/11/10]: That&#8217;s it. Over the strenuous and highly verbal objections of Bolivia, the more than 190 countries at Cancún adopted a compromise deal that points the way towards a new system fo climate diplomacy that will include complementary actions by both developed and developing nations. The Cancun Agreements &#8220;mark a new era in international cooperation on climate change,&#8221; said Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, who presided over the negotiations. The Copenhagen Agreements should be thought of as the Copenhagen Compromise—there was much here for countries to like and dislike. And the pledges for actually reduce carbon emissions—which date back to last year&#8217;s Copenhagen Accord—are far too timid now to prevent the world from likely reaching dangerous levels of warming, as Bolivia pointed out repeatedly. But what may be more important is that, after the difficulties of Copenhagen and the past year, the countries meeting here were able to negotiate in a positive way. Not perfect—not close—but positive. The planet wasn&#8217;t saved in Cancún, but the U.N. climate process was. I&#8217;ll have more as I talk to delegates here and/or try to recharge my brain&#8230; Update [12:26 AM CST 12/11/10]: COP 16 just concluded an informal plenary session (a meeting of all the countries in a single room) and the draft text looks to be headed for acceptance. The main obstacle: Bolivia. Ambassador Solon reiterated his basic objections with the text—and added that he had been harassed by security trying to get into the crowded session—and called for the two working groups to go back into session and go back over the draft texts. (Somewhat confusingly, there are two parallel texts here—one covering the Kyoto Protocol, the other covering what&#8217;s called the Ad-hoc Working Group for Long-term Cooperative Action, which includes everything else. The U.S., which never ratified Kyoto, only deals with LCA, which looks to the future of climate diplomacy.) A similar disruption happened at the troubled tail end of the Copenhagen summit last year, when a handful of countries—including Bolivia—refused to adopt the Copenhagen Accord<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2951&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Science and Politics Diverge in the End Stages of Cancún</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a briefing for reporters before the Cancún climate summit began, World Resources Institute president Jonathan Lash summed up is expectations for the meeting in a made-up work: &#8220;CopenCun.&#8221; He meant that much of the work of the Cancún summit would involve tying up the many loose ends of last year&#8217;s meeting in Copenhagen, with ended with the fractured Copenhagen Accord. A good outcome at Cancún would be one that took the political and somewhat hypothetical pledges of the Copenhagen Accord—which at the very least began to push the world beyond the developed/developing schism of earlier climate negotiations—and began to construct a climate agreement with meat on its bones. (Or &#8220;meat on the chicken,&#8221; which I learned in Sacramento last month is apparently Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s preferred line.) It hasn&#8217;t quite worked out that way because much of the negotiations have been taken up with arguments over not Copenhagen, but a much older pact—Kyoto. Instead of CopenCun, we have, um, KyoCun. The ghost of the Kyoto Protocol is still hanging over the negotiations here in Cancún, with Japan at the start of the negotiations and Russia late last night declaring that they would not accept second commitment periods under Kyoto unless other countries (like the U.S. and major developing nations like China) assumed similar carbon cutting commitments. The question of the future of Kyoto (the first commitment period ends after 2012) has hung over the negotiations, with most of the developing nations insisting at least publicly that Kyoto continue in some format. The U.S., which never ratified Kyoto, wants to focus on a newer agreement that will include complementary climate actions by all nations—in fact, that was largely the point of the Copenhagen Accord, at least from Washington&#8217;s perspective. Kyoto isn&#8217;t the only issue complicating the talks, which are entering their last official day—but which could easily go into hours and hours of overtime. (I brought a toothbrush to Cancún&#8217;s sprawling Moon Palace, where the talks are taking place.) The other main conflict is between China and the U.S. over<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2947&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Why the U.S. Is Bargaining So Hard at Cancún</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; You don&#8217;t have to be in Washington to hear the howls of progressive Democrats enraged by what they see as President Obama&#8217;s capitulation to the Republicans on taxes—they&#8217;re audible all the way down here in Cancún. (Twitter helps.) As Timothy Noah of Slate puts it, Obama seems to be an easy mark, a terrible poker player who telegraphs his hand and lets tougher players bully him. As a negotiator, Obama has repeatedly given away early concessions before he even sits down at the table (see his decision to announce expanded offshore drilling earlier this year, before Senate negotiations on a climate bill began in earnest), and seems to prefer compromise to fighting for his debating principles (see, well, lots). &#160; Pissed-off Democrats should come down to Cancún, because when it comes to climate diplomacy, at least, the President&#8217;s team bargains hard for every inch—and they seem willing to walk away from a compromise if it doesn&#8217;t fit their needs. (Also, the weather here is great.) The U.S. negotiators have long insisted that any climate deal must include both developed and developing nations (chiefly meaning China), and that while the two sides wouldn&#8217;t be expected to take on the same kinds of cuts, the actions of all nations need to internationally measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) in a complementary way. As top climate envoy Todd Stern put it earlier this week: What we need to do is to produce a balanced package of decisions covering all the core issues from the Copenhagen Accord, including mitigation, transparency, financing, technology, adaptation and the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) issue. And to get that &#8220;balanced package&#8221;—including the all-important MRV—the U.S. is apparently willing to slow progress on certain aspects of the climate negotiations, like REDD, that are much closer to completion than the deal as a whole. In response, as the negotiations enter their last official day on Friday, China seems to be digging in its heels as well, even though the public comments of both sides have been much<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2945&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: The Shadow of Wikileaks at Cancún</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happens at nearly every international climate summit. Usually about halfway through the two-week long summits, there will be an outcry about &#8220;secret&#8221; texts being negotiated in secret by the big countries of the world, dealing over the heads of poorer and smaller nations—which happen to be the ones that will be hit hardest by climate change. It happened last year in Copenhagen, bringing negotiations to a standstill, and it happened briefly again here in Cancún—though the fact that the proceedings are being run by Mexico, a country that straddles the developed and developing world, helped quash those rumors. But the fear that big players are pulling backroom deals on climate change never goes away, and a recent batch of cables released by WikiLeaks has only deepened it. Over the past several days the Guardian reported on a number of confidential cables that touched on last year&#8217;s sensitive climate negotiations, and which show that behind the scenes the U.S. was working both the European Union and some smaller developing countries hard to support the Copenhagen Accord, the political agreement President Obama helped broker at the last minute in 2009. Among the nuggets covered—or uncovered—in the cables: In a request originating with the CIA, the State Department in July 2009 sent a cable seeking human intelligence on U.N. diplomats, including ones involved in climate change. But the potential intelligence gathering wasn&#8217;t one way—in another cable, the State Department reported a &#8220;spear phishing&#8221; email attack on the office of U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern while he was in Beijing. On February 23, 2010, the ambassador-designate of the Maldives—a tiny island country in the Indian Ocean that is severely threatened by rising seas—spoke to U.S. deputy climate change Jonathan Pershing that his nation wanted &#8220;tangible assistance&#8221; to help support the Copenhagen Accord and encourage other developing nations to support it as well. The ambassador-designate ended up referring to projects worth some $50 million. On February 11 of that year, Pershing met with Connie Hedegaard, the European Union&#8217;s climate commissioner. Hedegaard told Pershing that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2942&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Speaking the Truth on Avoided Deforestation and Warming in Cancún</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/12/09/climate-speaking-the-truth-on-avoided-deforestation-and-warming-in-cancun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone speaking the truth—it&#8217;s an unusual occurrence at any government event (unless you have a link to Wikileaks) and it&#8217;s even rarer at the highly stage-managed U.N. climate talks. But that&#8217;s exactly what happened last night in Cancún at an event put on by Avoided Deforestation Partners, an NGO dedicated to promoting REDD, or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. (For background on REDD, see these TIME stories here and here.) Bharrat Jagdeo, the president of the heavily-forested South American country of Guyana, was sharing a panel with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and a number of other heavy-hitters in the sector, including the billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Jagdeo and Stoltenberg know each other—Norway has agreed to give Guyana $250 million dollars if it managed to preserve its entire forest—larger than the size of England—over the next four decades. Signed just before last year&#8217;s troubled climate summit in Copenhagen, the deal was hailed as historic, one that would slow climate change (12% to 17% of the planet&#8217;s carbon emissions now come from deforestation) and provide a model for how rich nations could help poor tropical countries hold onto their forests for the benefit of the planet. Only one problem: Jagdeo said on stage that he wasn&#8217;t getting the money. &#8220;We have not seen a single cent on projects for transforming the country,&#8221; he said, to the visible discomfort of the Norwegian Prime Minister, seated to his left. &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t been forthcoming.&#8221; The result was that Jagdeo, and his country, was left on a limb. By choosing to try to preserve its forests through a REDD scheme, rather than cutting them down for logging or agriculture, Guyana was taking a risk, putting its trust that the international community would pay up. Every day that money was delayed, Guyana was taking a hit—and so was its president, who has been lauded for his environmental vision. &#8220;If you can&#8217;t get [REDD] right in Guyana, you can&#8217;t get it right anywhere,&#8221; said Jagdeo. Jagdeo later clarified that his argument was less with Norway,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2925&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: The Scene from Cancún</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/12/08/climate-the-scene-from-cancun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year&#8217;s global climate change summit in Copenhagen ran into trouble for all kinds of reasons, but one of the first and worst was logistics. Too many people—more than 45,000—tried to jam into the Danish capital&#8217;s too-small Bella Center. The result was hours-long lines for security and accreditation, hot tempers and general frustration—not the sort of atmosphere that engenders compromise. Nor did it help that well over 100 heads of state arrived in Copenhagen by the end of the summit, raising the temperature of the proceedings and creating a security nightmare. And it was cold, global warming notwithstanding. Cancún, where I arrived on Tuesday, is a little different, to say the least. This is a resort town and the accommodations and actual meetings are spread out. Most of the action is at the Moon Palace, a sprawling, closed resort not far from the city&#8217;s airport. Side events take place in Cancúmesse, a cavernous convention center that is a 15 minute bus ride from the Moon Palace—which is itself so big that you need to take another bus to get from the area where the press conferences and actual plenary sessions are held to the media center. (Which of course means that none of the reporters are actually spending any time in the media centers, as journalists have an obnoxious habit of wanting to be near actual news.) Want to get back to the major hotels, where most of us are sleeping? That&#8217;s another bus ride from Cancúnmesse, which means that you can easily spend hours going back and forth over the course of a day, traffic notwithstanding. Which at least gives a lot of time for Blackberrying. The sheer sprawl of the summit seems to be reducing tensions and temperatures among delegates, advocates and reporters alike, though the low level of expectations for the event probably plays a role as well. That doesn&#8217;t mean everyone&#8217;s happy—as Andrew Revkin points out over at Dot Earth, the smallest (and most vulnerable) nations are angry about being left out as China and the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2916&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Hoping for Evolution in the Global Approach to Warming at Cancun</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/12/07/climate-hoping-for-evolution-in-the-global-approach-to-warming-at-cancun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just arrived in Cancun, where the 16th meeting of the Conference to the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is in full, acryonymized swing. It’s already clear that the mood in Cancun—like the weather—will be quite different from the chaotic atmosphere at the U.N. talks in Copenhagen last year. There are far fewer people here, considerably less attention and significantly lowered expectations—which paradoxically, may help negotiators actually get something meaningful done. The first week or so of the negotiations we’re marked by unusually conciliatory public statements from tough negotiators—including China, which said on Monday that it would be willing to allow some form of international review for all of its national climate and energy actions, moving closer to a key U.S. demand. Of course, the endless debate over the future of the Kyoto Protocol—which I wrote about last week—could wreck everything. At the same time the U.S. has been stridently saying that it wants an agreement at Cancun that shows progress on all fronts—emissions reductions, technology transfers, adaptation, verification, financing and forest preservation—or it wants nothing. “You can’t always get the perfect,” Stern said in a press conference on December 3. “But to say that because you don’t get the home run you won’t play ball, I don’t think that’s a good idea.” (Given that baseball isn’t exactly the most well-known sport in major carbon emitters like China or India—let alone Europe—lets hope Stern can come up with more culturally relevant sports metaphors when he’s doing the actual work of negotiating.) But the U.S. might really be mistaken in its insistence on an all or nothing approach to Cancun—not the least because the collapse of support for climate action back home doesn’t exactly put Washington in a strong bargaining position. The only way for a meaningful global climate action regime to come into might be through evolution. That’s the measured conclusion from a paper that came out yesterday from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a centrist think tank that has long<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2904&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banning Another Greenhouse Gas?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/11/29/banning-another-greenhouse-gas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eben Harrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the next round of international talks about climate change begin in Cancun tomorrow, optimism is low that the talks will lead to a major breakthrough among countries trying to cut emissions. But ahead of the summit, environmentalists applauded an initiative by a consortium of around 400 private companies to ban Hydrofluorocarbons—another contributor to global warming—in their refrigeration. Attention at climate talks tends to focus on carbon dioxide. But there are other, short-lived gases that are even more potent, although there is less of them. Hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, are currently being used by many companies for refrigeration. The warming effect of these HFCs is at least 1,000 times that of carbon dioxide. (Click here to read TIME&#8217;s Cancun preview.) A multi-company group that signed a pledge to ban HFCs was co-chaired by Unilever and Tesco and includes Coca-Cola, Carrefour, Ahold, Nestle, Pepsico, Procter &#38; Gamble, Kraft, General Mills, L’Oreal, Walmart and others, according to a release announcing the agreement by Greenpeace. In the release, Greenpeace, which has lobbied about HFCs for nearly two decades, said it hoped that participating companies “will be well on their way to total implementation by 2015.” Greenpeace also said that policy makers in Mexico should ban HFCs and agree on incentives to encourage natural refrigeration alternatives. Shifting from HFCs to substitutes that are 100 times less potent as climate warmers could offset nearly a decade’s increase in warming that is expected from rising emissions of carbon dioxide, according to an Op-Ed in the New York Times by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of atmospheric physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and David G. Victor, a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. “This is an extremely important first step, and will pave the way for major changes across the industry.said Amy Larkin Greenpeace Solutions Director. “Now national and international policy makers must match these corporations’ targets by outlawing HFCs and making the transition to climate friendly alternatives both cheap and easy.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2792&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Stop Global Warming with a New Computer Game</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/11/01/climate-stop-global-warming-with-a-new-computer-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s politicians have, so far, done a perfectly crap job of dealing with climate change. The bold promises of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which led to the creation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have yet to be fulfilled. Kyoto Protocol or no Kyoto Protocol, global carbon emissions keep on rising. The globe is getting steadily hotter. Species of animals and plants keep going extinct. The shift towards a cleaner, greener energy supply is happening far too slowly. And there&#8217;s little expectation that the UN climate change summit in Cancun at the end of the year will turn things around. But maybe you can do a better job! That&#8217;s the challenge game designers Red Redemption are laying down. They&#8217;re coming out with a new PC game (with a Mac version to follow soon) called, not very subtly, Fate of the World. The global strategy game puts players in charge of a World Trade Organization-style global body that has the task responding to rapid climate change and pushing the world towards cleaner energy. Here&#8217;s the trailer: This isn&#8217;t Red Redemption&#8217;s first foray into the world of what&#8217;s been called &#8220;socially conscious&#8221; gaming. (What&#8217;s that? Imagine the nihilistic, hedonistic joy that is Grand Theft Auto IV. Now imagine it&#8217;s opposite. There you go.) The Oxford-based company made an Internet browser-based game on climate change for the BBC in 2006, and it&#8217;s been played more than a million times since. Fate of the World, however, will be much more detailed, using data from real-world climate models, input from economists and from the polar explorer Pen Hadow. The climate prediction models come from Myles Allen, the head of climate dynamics at Oxford University. Allen also provided the inspiration for the game, as Gobion Rowlands, the chairman of Red Redemption, told the Guardian: My wife was working on Allen&#8217;s Climateprediction.net project [a project to use the power of home PCs to process climate model data], when he took me out for dinner. We got quite drunk,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2458&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: India Is Still a Long Way from Cutting Carbon</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/10/26/climate-india-is-still-a-long-way-from-cutting-carbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll hear it over and over again in the debates over the global climate negotiations: while the U.S. has put more carbon overall into the atmosphere than any other nation (and is still the number two emitter overall), the lion&#8217;s share of future carbon emissions will come from the big developing nations. China, now the world&#8217;s undisputed carbon champ, gets most of the attention from the U.S., but fast-growing India is also a rising carbon power. The country&#8217;s carbon emissions rose 58% between 1994 and 2007, to 1.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, good for fifth in the world. And assuming India keeps growing in the future, with all the energy that will require, we can expect the country&#8217;s carbon emissions to grow severalfold over the next few decades. It may not be much longer before American opponents of a climate pact are making as much noise about India&#8217;s refusal to accept carbon caps as they do today about China. But for all the attention over the Indian economic miracle—and the glitter of skyscrapers in Bombay—the reality is that India is still incredibly poor. The country recently raised its poverty rate from 27.5% of the population to 37.2%, or 410 million people. (The Indian poverty cutoff point is an income of roughly 23 cents a day.) And as Michael Levi—a senior fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations (and a great global energy blogger)—points out, India&#8217;s extreme poverty makes it very difficult to push the country to do more to cut carbon: When I visited India in January, I came away deeply uncomfortable about any international climate change effort that pushes India to do more than what is already in its self-interest. On my visit last week, I spend my last two days in several rural villages, where a household income of ten dollars a day makes you rich, and wandering around Calcutta, which has largely missed the “New India” that you see in the office towers of Mumbai and Bangalore. Those two days only reinforced my earlier sense.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2385&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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