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Imagine a world where losing your job wasn't scary

Can you imagine a union leader talking about the end of a major, historical industry in their country and their not seeming to mind it? Well, I did see that here in Copenhagen and it well and truly blew my mind. more »

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G77 Suspend COP15 Talks: "These Negotiations Are A Joke."

Members of the African civil society delegations held a protest in the main hall of the COP15 summit today to support their negotiators' decision to hold up the climate summit talks, temporarily suspending the conference, over the sidelining of the Kyoto Protocol discussions, that were proceeding in parallel to the Long-Term Coope more »

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Just How Bad Is The Copenhagen Deal Going To Be?

As EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said when she spoke at the Copenhagen summit on Wednesday, "We all here on behalf of people who ... struggle with obstacles to immediate prosperity and anxiety for their economic future," due to the global financial crisis. more »

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The Feed-In Tariff Model In Action

The International Feed-In Cooperation group, founded by the governments of Germany, Slovenia and Spain, held an event this past Tuesday at the COP15 meeting to share ideas and experiences from their highly successful adoption of feed-in tariffs for the promotion of renewable energy. more »

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Message To Congress, Copenhagen: America is Cutting Carbon, One Way Or Another

The Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that it can regulate under the existing Clean Air Act. And the timing of the announcement was no accident. more »

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Is China Still A Developing Nation?

This past week, the UN suspended funding for several Chinese wind farms, ruling the China had been gaming the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidies paid by developed countries to developing countries for clean technology projects they would not have otherwise not have built. more »

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A Backdrop For Copenhagen

Jonathan Hiskes at Grist has written up a Copenhagen 101 primer for anyone who's just tuning in to the latest round of world climate talks, so I don't have to. Which is great, because there were three main points I wanted to go over. more »

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