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Carrying the Torch: Yale’s Role at COP18

Carrying the Torch: Yale’s Role at COP18

Yale President Richard C. Levin once asked, “How do we prevent the continued consumption of fossil fuels from warming our planet to the point that ecosystems are destroyed, food supplies are threatened, and rising sea levels force hundreds of millions …

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“We Are All Neighbors with Joined Doors”: Climate Justice and the UNFCCC

“We Are All Neighbors with Joined Doors”: Climate Justice and the UNFCCC

ednesday, December 5th: deep within the bizarre landscape of minarets, oil refineries that stretch out into the sandy horizon, and a wildly ad hoc, opulent, and strangely 1970’s-going-on-the-future skyline, the annual UNFCCC conferencemoves along in its second week. In …

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The Hunt for Accountability, From Rio to Doha

The Hunt for Accountability, From Rio to Doha

Before I started my graduate studies in August, I was campaigning incessantly with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to drive the Rio+20 Earth Summit process towards real actions and accountability. I am carrying on the same mission to the …

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Paleo-what?: Introducing the Ancient Climate Record into Modern Negotiations

Paleo-what?: Introducing the Ancient Climate Record into Modern Negotiations

s the COP18 in Doha cranks along into its second week, onlookers follow the proceedings and ponder how the results of continued negotiation will affect them. Frustrated environmental activists bemoan the slow progress made by the UNFCCC over the past …

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New Zealand’s ultimate “COP Out” of the Kyoto Protocol

New Zealand’s ultimate “COP Out” of the Kyoto Protocol

New Zealand’s government announced in a statement on Nov.9 that it is not in the country’s interests to be “stuck in the Kyoto space for another eight years,” only a few weeks before nations met in Doha for the next …

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A new smart phone app seeks to hold climate negotiators accountable

This week negotiators from around the world will meet in Doha, Qatar to once again hem and haw their way through an international climate conference.  Though we can expect the usual commitment dodging and grandstanding from the world’s leaders, assembled …

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