by Amy Weinfurter | Apr 20, 2016 | Climate
At the UN this week envoys from more than 130 nations, including 60 world leaders, will convene to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement. This historic deal, achieved during global climate talks last December, was bolstered by contributions from hundreds of city...
by Amy Weinfurter | Apr 18, 2016 | Climate, India
In the words of Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), “COP21 was a success, but that was the easy part.” COP21, otherwise know as the Paris Climate Conference, generated the first legally...
by Amy Weinfurter | Mar 1, 2016 | Climate
This December’s Paris Climate Conference marked a turning point not just for international climate negotiations, but also for the growing leadership of cities, states, regions, businesses, investors, and civil society organizations. On December 4, 2015, over 400...
by Amy Weinfurter | Dec 15, 2015 | Climate
Speaking at Sciences Po University on December 8, former California Governor Schwarzenegger recounted the state’s fight to implement fuel standards that went beyond federal targets. Some people, he recalled, advised California to wait for the national government. “To...
by Amy Weinfurter | Dec 2, 2015 | Climate, Groundswell
The start of the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP-21) marks a turning point not just for international climate negotiations, but also for the growing number of cities, states, regions, businesses, and investors taking climate action. These sub-national and...
