Why This is A Very Big Week for Climate Diplomacy Mark Leon Goldberg April 20, 2021 Earth Day Week 2021 is a significant moment for climate diplomacy. Two key events: the release of the United States' national carbon emissions reduction plan and the Climate Leaders Summit, hosted by President Biden, have the potential to invigorate internatio...
Sustainable Finance for Peace and Climate Security | Climate Security Series – Taped Live Mark Leon Goldberg July 6, 2020 This episode is part three of a six-part series examining the relationship between climate and security, produced in partnership with CGIAR, the world's largest global agricultural innovation network. This episode was taped live in front of a virtual audience ...
“The rising sea is coming up to our doorstep every day and every night” Sonia Narang October 12, 2018 As sea water encroached closer and closer to Kelepi Saukitoga’s family home over the years, he knew something was wrong. His family lives in the remote village of Narikoso – part of the Pacific island archipelago of Fiji – where climate change has started to u...
The Inside Story of How the World Closed the Hole in the Ozone Layer Mark Leon Goldberg July 23, 2018 The year is 1985. Ronald Reagan is president. Margaret Thatcher is prime minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Jackson, White Snake and George Michael are dominating the billboard charts. Back to the Future is a smash hit at the box office. And scien...
A Paris Agreement for the Shipping Industry John Light April 18, 2018 The UN agency that oversees shipping, the International Maritime Organization, adopted its first-ever deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last week. On Friday, the IMO, which has more than 170 member nations, announced that it would oversee efforts by ship...
Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning) John Light April 11, 2018 In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and would be followed by a series of class-action lawsuits “aga...
Map of the Day: Where Investment in Renewables is Booming Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2018 Today's map comes from a new UN-backed report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018. As the name suggests the report, which was a joint effort of the United Nations Environment Program and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, examined investment patterns ...
For the first time, an International Treaty to Protect Environmental Activists John Light March 16, 2018 In many Latin American countries, environmental protests can be a matter of life and death for the activists involved. In a tally put out last year, the non-profit Global Witness reported that 200 people had been murdered in 2016 defending their land and the e...
PODCAST: Anote Tong is the former President of Kiribati, an island nation threatened by the rising seas Mark Leon Goldberg February 12, 2018 To the people of Kiribati, climate change is an existential threat. This is an Island nation in the pacific -- it is a string of atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It has a population of about 100,000 and is known for its vast Tuna stock...
