There is a silver lining to Trump’s Disasterous Decision to Pull out of the Paris Agreement John Light June 1, 2017On Thursday, Donald Trump announced that the United States would be pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. It was a rebuke to US allies, US business leaders, the pope, the president’s own secretary of state, his daughter and son-in-law and the m...
Better Know The Paris Climate Agreement Mark Leon Goldberg December 16, 2015The Paris agreement that was adopted on December 12 was a triumph of diplomacy. It is also a affirmation of idealism in international relations -- that the anarchy of the international system can be transcended to find global solutions to global problems. ...
The Paris Agreement is a Triumph of Diplomacy Mark Leon Goldberg December 12, 2015The Paris Agreement has been formally adopted by 195 counties.Here it is.Over the coming days, we can expect experts, advocates and other interested parties to closely parse over the text. There will be criticisms of it. And there will be praise. (The ...
The French Ambassador to the USA Just Summed Up The Totality of Climate Diplomacy in One Tweet Mark Leon Goldberg December 11, 2015I asked Twitter's greatest diplomat, the French ambassador to the USA, Gerard Araud, if he could predict what is going through the mind of his boss, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius?Fabius, you see, is overseeing the final stretch of the climate talks in Pa...
USDA: Climate Change Will Make Our Food Less Nutritious Alanna Shaikh, MPH December 9, 2015Climate change is going to have a massive impact on food and food security. It’s both true and intuitive. Agriculture is a complex system that is also extremely climate-dependent. A new report from the United States Department of Agriculture seeks to identify ...
Will Climate Refugees Be Included in the Outcome of the Paris Climate Talks? Mythili Sampathkumar December 8, 2015(PARIS) - There are few other issues in the larger financial and political discussions at COP 21 that highlight the human aspect of climate change than the issue of climate refugees. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), some 26 million people ar...
#EarthtoParis Mark Leon Goldberg December 7, 2015Many of the same partners who bring you the Social Good Summit during UN Week are convening the #EarthtoParis summit today and tomorrow. The speaker line up is a who's who of UN officials, policy wonks, artists, celebrities, civic leaders gathered for two...
What the World’s Poorest Countries Want from the Paris Climate Talks Mythili Sampathkumar December 4, 2015(Paris, France) - There are 40,000 delegates at the Le Bourget venue here in Paris for the UN climate talks right now, but none are more desperate for a solid global agreement on climate change than the world's most vulnerable, the Least Developed Countries (L...
Why COP21 is an International Political Tipping Point Mark Leon Goldberg December 3, 2015Unlike any other global climate or environment conference I've covered over the years, civil society and the activist community this time around is genuinely enthused about the Paris Climate Talks. Cautious optimism seems to be prevailing mood. For a UN cl...
