Can mayors fix rising temps?
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Gov. Jerry Brown are trying to quantify efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions by states, cities and businesses. Reporter David Ferris, of …
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GHGMI’s decade of experimentation – what have we learned?
This year we are celebrating GHG Management Institute’s 10th anniversary. It is hard to believe. (Especially because it means I’m getting old!) In the last decade we have expended much …
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Are our politics, along with the climate, being driven off a cliff?
Short answers are possibly (politics) and yes (climate). I am, probably along with you, still conducting my own autopsy of 2016 and the chaos rattling across the United States and …
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Support Public Greenhouse Gas Data
This is an open call for Americans to support public greenhouse gas data. The draft U.S. GHG Inventory comment period closes March 17th. My early professional experience working on climate …
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We Mourn
It was November of 2000 in Washington DC. I was on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, as a 30 year-old staff member at the US EPA working in …
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We Celebrate
With broad smiles, yet some anxiousness, I hope you will join all of us at the GHG Management Institute in celebrating the early entry into force of the Paris Agreement. …
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Nature Climate Change Launches Carbon Accounting Collection
We are pleased to inform you that Nature Climate Change has just launched a new online collection dedicated to carbon accounting. To quote the editorial, published in the November 2016 …
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Have We Created a “Real” Muddle for Emission Markets with the Paris Agreement?
We are just a few weeks away from the next session of international climate change negotiations following the successful Paris Agreement last December. As I detailed in an earlier post, …
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5th Durban Forum on Capacity-Building
The 5th meeting of the Durban Forum on capacity-building was held on 20 May 2016, during the forty-fourth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation. The discussions focused on: 1) …
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New Working Paper: Transformative shift in capacity building after Paris?
We are pleased to inform you that IGES in partnership with the Coalition on Paris Agreement on Capacity Building has recently published a new working paper on international capacity building. “Can we expect a …
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