Articles by Jake Schmidt
Jake Schmidt is the international climate policy director at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He blogs regularly on international climate change issues and the negotiations on NRDC's Switchboard and tweets at: http://twitter.com/jschmidtnrdc
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Important week for global warming
Today begins a week dubbed because of all the high-level climate discussions that are occurring. And they just all happen to be occurring in the U.S. at an important time for the domestic debate to pass a clean energy and climate bill in the Senate. The high-level events begin on Tuesday (Sept. 22) with the […]
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Obama administration comes out in support of key international provisions in climate bill
Todd Stern the Special Envoy for Climate Change, just testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on: The Road to Copenhagen and International Climate Agreement. His testimony (available here [pdf]) and response to several questions for the first time publicly stressed the importance of the three international investment provisions in […]
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Four ways the U.S. & China can start cooperating now to tackle climate change
This post is from my colleague Barbara Finamore (Director of our China Program). It is a set of important first steps that China and the U.S. could undertake to help reduce global warming pollution. Moving these two countries together will be critical to securing a strong global commitment in Copenhagen. And there have been some important signs […]
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South Korea outlines a range of global warming reduction targets that they’ll adopt
For over a year now, South Korea has been undertaking an extensive dialogue to establish a target to cut their global warming pollution (see my discussion here and this ClimateWire story –sub req.– from last year). And now the South Korean government has outlined the possible targets that they will commit to later this year […]
