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 Yaping Cheng | Dec 15, 2015 | Energy
By Yaping Cheng and Angel Hsu The 1 Gigaton Coalition, which was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, launched its inaugural report on December 7 at COP-21 in Paris. The Yale Data-driven...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 10, 2015 | Featured
Cities, states, regions, companies and investors are taking actions to address climate change. The scope of these actions is broad, covering hundreds of jurisdictions and encompassing a significant fraction of the global economy. Citizens, too, are mobilizing through...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 5, 2015 | Climate
Paris, 5 December 2015 – R20 Founder and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yale University, and the Stanley Foundation, in collaboration with the R20 and USC Schwarzenegger Institute, released “Scaling Up:From Local to Global Climate Action.”...
