Threats to the Kyoto Protocol Endanger Copenhagen Talks & Our Climate
Our own Sierra Club Global Warming and Energy Team staffer Justin Guay is still glued to the lead-up of December’s climate talks in Copenhagen. He’s prepared another excellent update on the talks that have been happening this fall and are building to what will happen in Denmark:
Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee hearings held on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act last week have built upon the Kerry/Graham op-ed in the New York Times to provide renewed momentum on domestic legislation -- even if the party of no continues to childishly obstruct the process by boycotting committee mark up.
Unfortunately, movement in the Senate is being overshadowed by a deterioration of negotiations at the global level stemming from concerted attacks on the Kyoto Protocol. A handful of countries seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol and replace it with a "pledge and review" system threaten to derail the Copenhagen talks in December...
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Mountaintop Meeting
In the last edition of Hotline, we told you about the Maldives holding a cabinet meeting underwater to bring awareness to the island nation's plight with global warming. Well now another nation is taking similar action.
Nepalese officials announced this week that its cabinet will be meeting atop Mount Everest later this month "to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's U.N. negotiations on climate change."
These countries are truly taking bold steps to raise awareness of global warming’s impacts. Underwater, then on top of a mountain wonder what’s next.