Articles by Jake Schmidt
Jake Schmidt is the international climate policy director at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He blogs regularly on international climate change issues and the negotiations on NRDC's Switchboard and tweets at: http://twitter.com/jschmidtnrdc
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Where are US Global Warming Emissions Headed?
As I meet with global warming officials from other countries, I frequently hear this statement: “American action on global warming is lost for the foreseeable future.” This is a good […]
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Key actions on climate & energy at the Earth Summit in 2012
Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use reached the highest level yet in 2010, according to the International Energy Agency. So should we throw up our hands? No, this is a […]
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Congress should not try to stop the Europeans from controlling aviation's carbon pollution
Why would a reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have anything to say about the steps that Europe is taking to reduce carbon pollution from aviation? The answer […]
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New NASA map shows how much carbon is stored in global forests
NASA has just released a new map which shows the carbon stored in the forests around the world. While it doesn’t show us exactly which forests are at risk of […]
