“Anyone who thinks that there is not a dramatic change in weather patterns is denying reality. We have a new reality, and old infrastructures and old systems.” So stated New York Governor Cuomo in ...
The Youth Voice in the Climate Fight
"As youth, we don’t have a voice in this fight. In the sense that, like, there’s no way that I can climb the government ladder and end up in a position of enough political power to save myself now. ...
Carbon Dioxide Will Persist in the Atmosphere Long After Current Decision Makers Have Left Their Roles: On Ethical Grounds, Young People Should Have a Say
Even if today's college students live to be 100 years old, more than half of the CO2 released into the atmosphere during the four years they are in college will still be present there at the end of ...
Copenhagen Goal Within Reach, But Only With Global Action Far Beyond Today’s Most Ambitious Actions
Even if the world also has sustained success eliminating deforestation, reducing emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gasses and improving energy efficiency, new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure ...
Young People Need to Be Heard at the Earth Summit
Faithful readers of this blog will notice that many of the latest posts have been authored by Ellie Johnston, Climate Interactive's intern. Ellie's passion for a sustainable future has her working ...
Can a Graph Be a Call to Action?
A new article, 2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts, shares, in just two pages, seven of the most important graphs on the planet. The datasets are striking, and author ...
Cheap Natural Gas Has the Potential to Weaken a Critical Feedback Loop Needed for the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Early adoption of renewable energy helps jump start the transition to a low-carbon economy via a reinforcing feedback loop. Anything that diminishes early adoption of renewable energy - including ...
Transparent, Real-Time Analysis Works
Climate Interactive is a small team with big goals. One of our founding goals was to offer rapid turnaround analysis of the most important climate and energy issues, and to make that analysis ...
Durban Talks Open the Door to a Future Global Legal Agreement, But Produce No Immediate Strengthening of Pledges
With the close of COP-17, parties to the UNFCCC maintained the same inadequate emissions reduction pledges, thus committing the world to a more costly and risky path forward than is needed given the ...
To Avoid Expensive and Disruptive Rates of Emissions Reduction In Coming Decades Parties Must Increase the Ambition of 2020 Pledges Today
To see a reposting on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog, click here. And a corroborating report by ClimateWorks Foundation here plus another by Climate Analytics here. Postponing commitment to ...
There Doesn’t Have to be an Emissions Gap
Following on last year's Emissions Gap report which was influential in the Cancun COP-16 climate negotiations, Climate Interactive Co-Director, Beth Sawin, again this year contributed to a ...
Beth Sawin On Hurricane Irene from Vermont Bioneers: The Big Four Lessons
At the end of August, Vermont was hit by catastrophic flooding as result of Hurricane Irene, which dumped six inches of rain on already saturated hillsides around the state. On Saturday, I (Beth ...