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‘Climate Spider’ at the UN Climate Conference in Doha

By on January 28, 2013 in Sights

A few of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute students who attended the COP-18 UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar in December, 2012 made this fun video about one of the art sculptures in the Qatar National Convention Center.

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New bloc of ‘Like Minded Developing Countries’ meet in advance of Doha Climate Talks

By on October 25, 2012 in Climate, UNFCCC

The lexicon of climate change negotiations is always full of alphabet soup – the UNFCCC, GHGs, AWG-KP, AWG-LCA – the list is endless, particularly in reference to negotiation blocs, which can be as simple as G77 & China, EU-27, BASIC, BRIC, etc. etc. While negotiation blocs have traditionally been defined in terms of economic development, it [...]

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Be Cool – NYC Cool Roofs

By on May 14, 2012 in Sights

Be Cool – NYC Cool Roofs

On Saturday, I participated in the annual Yale Day of Service organized by Yale Blue Green and NYC Cool Roofs. The activity was to coat a roof of a low-incoming housing development in Harlem, NYC in a white elastin material that helps buildings reflect solar infrared radiation and keep them cool (read more about how cool roofs work here). NYC Cool Roofs is an initiative that was started to help NYC reach its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030. Although they are in the process of collecting data on energy and cost savings, cool roofs are supposed to yield 30 percent reductions in cooling bills during summer months. I was really happy I got to learn about this “cool” initiative and help to coat one of their roofs.

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The Strategic and Economic Dialogue and Energy and Climate

By on May 9, 2012 in China

The Obama administration’s fourth major meeting with China, involving multiple Cabinet Secretaries and Chinese Ministers, theStrategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), will be held May 3 and 4 in Beijing. As usual, the U.S. delegation will be lead by Secretaries Clinton and Geithner, and their Chinese hosts will be Vice Premier Wang Qishan (who focuses on economic policy) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (responsible for foreign policy).

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What Jeremy Lin and US-China Cooperation on Climate Change Don’t (Yet) Have in Common

By on February 25, 2012 in China, Climate

This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post.  It may not be coincidental that soon after NBA Knicks’ Jeremy Lin dazzled the nation with a seemingly infallible jump-shot, China’s vice president, heir apparent and avid basketball fan Xi Jinping made an official U.S. visit. But while Lin — a Harvard graduate raised with Chinese and [...]

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Chinese experts discuss absolute emissions limits in Durban

By on December 6, 2011 in China, Climate, UNFCCC

The idea of a total cap on energy consumption in China, first suggested last March before the National People’s Congress has reemerged in Durban, and surprisingly there are now suggestions that China might consider some kind of a cap on carbon emissions. This has been suggested apparently as part of domestic policy rather than as a negotiating position, but details are very sketchy.

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Recommendations for climate impact reduction in Latvia

By on July 1, 2011 in Indices, Presentations

In May I was invited to Latvia by the non-profit Homo Ecos to participate in a campaign to raise awareness of Latvia’s environment and its goal to become one of the greenest countries in the world.  According to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, Latvia ranked eighth amongst 149 countries across 10 environmental policy categories ranging from [...]

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