Tag Archives: USA
California Shows The World (Some Of) America Is Serious About Climate Change
Posted on 17. Dec, 2010 by Ross.
The plans for a US-wide cap-and-trade scheme for carbon emissions might be dead in the water, but California is charging ahead regardless with its plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
Although still playing catch-up with Europe, with the long-established ETS and 2020 emission targets of 20-30% reductions from 1990, Californians aims to return to 1990 levels [...]
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International Climate Negotiations Are Dead (Thanks America), But That’s Not Stopping China
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Ross.
Whatever lingering hopes the most blindly optimistic of climate negotiators had of finding further progress in the wake of the Copenhagen disaster was extinguished by the announcement that the US Senate was to abandon its attempts to pass some form of carbon emissions regulation. However, other countries including China are continuing with their decarbonisation strategies [...]
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How To Start A Green Business Driven By Federal Stimulus Money
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Ross.
Remember the stimulus package which was supposed to bring millions of green-collar jobs to the USA? The hundreds of billions of dollars which were going to revitalise energy efficiency and renewable energy across America?
Guess what: it’s not getting spent.
Only 10% of the $20 billion of US stimulus dollars earmarked for energy efficiency projects has been [...]
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Immigrants Hold Climate Change Hostage In US Senate
Posted on 26. Apr, 2010 by Ross.
Just when the road seemed clear for America to finally hop on board the global clean energy agenda, domestic xenophobic politics has created a new crisis for climate change’s lethargic legislationary laggards.
10 months after the US Congress passed the Clean Energy and Security Act, the tri-partisan Senate coalition of Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham [...]
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Let Battle Commence: Green ‘Buy America’ Will Kick-Start Carbon Trade Wars
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
After the collapse of the Copenhagen conference, there was one prediction which Energy-Saving News felt was easy to make: that a new era of green carbon tariffs in developed countries on dirty imports from developing nations was at hand. After recent comments from UK politicians suggesting a direction towards such steps, the battle in the [...]
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After Copenhagen, The Carbon Tariff Trade Wars Begin
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Ross.
In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, the industrialised world looked back at the lessons of the 1930s and realised that the fastest way out of recession was to avoid protectionist trade wars and to keep international markets as open as possible, in order to try to keep trade flowing as freely as possible [...]
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Obama Shows US Cards Early In Copenhagen Climate Poker
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Ross.
For the last couple of months, all the expectation placed on the Copenhagen Conference was that it would fail, despite some nations believing there to be no Plan B. That the USA could commit to nothing because of the stalled legislation in the Senate, and that other countries would feel no need to adopt stringent [...]
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India Makes Strides In Renewables And Energy Efficiency; Ominous Accord With USA
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Ross.
India is still the Jekyll and Hyde of climate change this week: despite positive announcements over solar power targets and steps to help transfer low-carbon technologies to developing countries, their growing agreement with climate change sloth the USA could spell trouble at the Copenhagen negotiating table in December.
After months of rumours and draft report leaks, [...]
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USA, China Agree Carbon ‘Easing’ Targets… But What Are They?
Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by Ross.
After months of political to-ing and fro-ing, the two most polluting nations on Earth today agreed to set binding carbon dioxide emissions targets at the Copenhagen Conference next month.
Despite the press conference held between Hu Jintao and the visiting Barak Obama to announce the agreement, as well as the outcome of other discussions including trade, [...]
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China Joins The Climate Change Club, Leaving USA In The Cold
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Shhh… don’t tell anyone, but China’s about to complete a political blind-siding of epic proportions this week at the UN’s NY
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USA Improves Energy Efficiency Standards For Electrical Appliances
Posted on 10. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Following in Europe’s footsteps in setting stringent energy efficiency targets for manufacturers, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday confirmed that his department has completed new energy efficiency standards for electrical appliances in response to President Barack Obama
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