Many of the scientists and analysts who are working together to add up climate change mitigation pledges to determine their sufficiency to address climate change met to collaborate at the recent UNFCCC meeting in Bonn. Scroll down to other blog posts to hear about substantive results from this meeting hosted by the European Climate Foundation. […]
Archives for April 2010
Climate Interactive Partner Citi Named Greenest Big Bank
Recently listed at the top of “America’s Greenest Bank” rankings, Citi was one of the founding funders of Climate Interactive, long before C-ROADS was discovered and used by so many climate analysts and leaders. Now we’re proud they were acknowledged for their other “green” activities. Michelle Erickson of Citi was one of our founders, and […]
World Needs Long Term, Post-2020 Climate Targets
How far into the future should policymakers specify the GHG emissions targets they and their nations propose? How far into the future should climate modelers try to forecast the consequences of those policies? At the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn we observed mixed opinions on these questions, specifically whether, in calculating the gap between current pledges […]
“Adding Up” Pledges Gets Official in UNFCCC!
A working group of the UNFCCC officially requested the sort of “Adding Up” of mitigation pledges that we do with C-ROADS and the Climate Scoreboard! Here’s the accepted text: The AWG-KP requested the secretariat to prepare for consideration by the AWG-KP at its twelfth session: (a) A paper compiling pledges for emission reductions and related assumptions […]
Climate Scoreboard Takes Flight
On the trip home from the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany I was pleasantly surprised to see a fairly accurate representation of the Climate Scoreboard in the pages of Delta’s onboard magazine, Delta Sky. With the scoreboard having received more than 700,000 views since its release just before the Copenhagen Climate Summit we already knew […]
Summing Up Emissions Reduction Pledges: The State of the Art
Judging from the well-attended side-event on the first day of last week’s UNFCCC session there appears to be growing momentum to assess the question: is it adding up? Is the collective benefit of the pledges enough to deliver our goals for protecting the climate? Panelists representing five groups of analysts and modelers (including Climate Interactive) […]
The Calculators of the Global Climate Deal Unite in Bonn
At the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn Germany, the climate modelers who are calculating the effectiveness of mitigation pledges have united to collaborate towards strengthening the global climate deal. At a side event organized by the European Climate Foundation (that’s Dr. Beth Sawin of Sustainability Institute’s Climate Interactive program speaking at it next to Murray Ward […]
Breaking News in Bonn: Parties Ask for Adding up of Mitigation Pledges
Writing from the UN climate negotiations in Bonn Germany, where the AOSIS island nations and EU recently proposed a formal “adding up” of the mitigation pledges to the UNFCCC. A recent text in the AWG-KP group included, “The AWG-KP requested the secretariat… prepare an analysis of the pledges for emissions reduction provided by Annex 1 […]
Live-Blogging the Bonn Climate Talks
Greetings from the UN Climate Talks in Bonn Germany! Dr. Beth Sawin and I from Sustainability Institute are helping move the climate negotiations forward with C-ROADS and the Climate Scoreboard. First person we ran into was Christiana Figueres, our dear friend and informal C-ROADS ambassador who is a top candidate for the chair of the […]
Climate Interactive and C-ROADS Heads to Bonn for the UNFCCC Meeting
Two members of our team out of Sustainability Institute, Dr. Beth Sawin and Andrew Jones, are heading this week to the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany to use C-ROADS to help the global “pledge tracking” effort. We’ll be presenting at a UN side event along with our colleagues at Project Catalyst, WRI, Ecofys, Climate Analytics, […]