"Quebec Adopts California's Auto Emission Standards"
"Quebec will become the first province in Canada to adopt California's strict auto emissions standards, the province's environment ministry said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 12/30/2009
Climate Change
"An Array of New Interests Joins Washington's Climate Change Debate"
"The next round of the battle over climate change policy on Capitol Hill will involve more than the usual suspects. Way more. Watch soup makers face off against steel companies. Witness the folks who pump gas from the ground fight back against those who dig up rock. And watch the venture capitalists who have money riding on new technology try to gain advantage in a game that so far has been deftly controlled by the old machine."
Source: Center for Public Integrity, 12/29/2009
"China Defends Wen Jiabao's Role In Copenhagen Talks"
"China on Friday defended the role played by premier Wen Jiabao at climate change talks in Copenhagen this month after a barrage of international criticism blaming China for obstructing negotiations."
Source: Reuters, 12/29/2009
"UN Climate Chief Urges Avoiding Blame Over Summit"
"The top U.N. climate official said Wednesday that though the Copenhagen global warming summit went sour, countries should avoid blaming each other and get down to work on a better deal next year."
Source: AP, 12/24/2009
After Copenhagen: Many Climate Stories at Home Still Unwritten
For journalists not lucky enough to go to the Copenhagen climate talks, the good news is that climate will be news at home and abroad for years to come. Many regional, state, and local climate stories are still waiting to be written.
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Regional Climate Impacts and Implications — General Sources
Climate Wizard. A team of researchers from the Univ. of Washington, the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, and the Nature Conservancy has provided a tool for attempting to predict the effects of climate change at the regional and state level. They call their tool Climate Wizard, as noted in the June 10, 2009, TipSheet. The Web site allows users to check predictions based on varying degrees of climate change.
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"Obama Negotiates 'Copenhagen Accord' With Senate Climate Fight in Mind"
"COPENHAGEN -- President Obama may have improved his chances for passing global warming legislation in the Senate by forging an interim international agreement here that puts both rich and poor countries on a path to curtail greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: ClimateWire, 12/22/2009
Analysis: "EU Carbon Scheme Reels After Weak Climate Deal"
The price of tradeable carbon allowances fell on the EU market in response to failure of the U.N. climate talks to deliver strong limits on carbon dioxide emissions.
Source: Reuters, 12/22/2009
"An Air of Frustration for Europe at Climate Talks"
"COPENHAGEN — By early Saturday morning, the atmosphere at the European Union pavilion at the Bella Center had turned funereal."
Source: NYTimes, 12/21/2009
"Climate Summit Hopes Less Is More"
"When two weeks of climate negotiations finally wound to an overtime finish in Copenhagen, the goal of a new binding treaty to combat global warming still looked elusively far away. And, even for climate activists, the question was: 'Is that so bad?'"
Source: LA Times, 12/21/2009
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