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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Improving accuracy and accountability in the International Global Warming agreement
Having a strong, credible, and transparent system for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and the actions of a country is an essential building block of an effective international system to address […]
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Countries aren't sitting on the sidelines waiting for a final international climate agreement
One of key outcomes of international global warming negotiations must be a focus on what actions key countries undertake to reduce their emissions. On that front, there are promising signs. […]
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Important actions can be accomplished at climate negotiations in Cancun
We are not going to get a binding treaty in Cancun, Mexico when 194 countries meet to continue negotiations on international efforts to address climate change. And we are not going to finalize all of the details of new international efforts. But if you believe, as I do, that real action can occur without a "binding" agreement or having all the details completed you’ll be surprised to learn that some key things might actually happen in Cancun.
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Turning old industrial plants into clean energy economic zones in Shanghai, China
A group from the NRDC just visited Shanghai, China to discuss helping turn an old iron and steel alloy plant into a new clean energy development zone.
