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Tom Young, BusinessGreen , Monday 11 October 2010 at 09:20:00 Survey of top firms reveals growing concerns about climate impacts and upcoming carbon regulation Large businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are seriously concerned about the impact of climate change on their industry and are beginning to take steps to pre-empt carbon legislation, according to…
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Asia-Pacific business leaders reveal climate fears
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Monday 11 October 2010 at 10:20:00 UN reports positive progress on climate financing as insults fly between China and US The latest round of UN climate change talks drew to a close over the weekend with diplomats confident progress had been made on the vexed topic of climate financing, but…
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Tension rises as Tianjin talks end in US-China acrimony
Indeed, it is difficult to identify another major political party in any democracy as thoroughly dismissive of climate science as is the GOP here. Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, says that although other parties may contain pockets of climate skepticism, there is “no party-wide view like this anywhere in the world that I am aware of.” It will be difficult for the world to move meaningfully against climate disruption if the United States does not. And it will be almost impossible for the U.S. to act if one party not only rejects the most common solution proposed for the problem (cap-and-trade) but repudiates even the idea that there is a problem to be solved
By Charles Shereda Part I: Behavior and Efficiency: More Information, Please In this first of two installments, Jim Sweeney and I talk about the link between information and behavior when it comes to energy efficiency. Sweeney directs Stanford’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, and is a Convening Director of the upcoming Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change
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A Conversation with Jim Sweeney, Director of Stanford's Energy Efficiency Center
The authors of The Climate Connection: Climate Change and Modern Human Evolution are deeply aware of the threat to human survival accompanying our rising greenhouse gas emissions. Ren