With only fourteen days until the start of the COP15 meeting, over sixty presidents and prime ministers are expected to attend. However, President Obama will not be among them. There has been a concern that nothing substantial will come from Copenhagen without the heads of some of the world’s major polluters (China, India, and the …
Author: ryankwhi
Diverse interests – Adam E
As a person with interests ranging from the funding of micro-finance projects to restore rain-forests, to the emerging studies of emergy and water footprints, to the engendering of climate change as an issue to display the imbalance of risk posed by global warming onto women, I am beyond thrilled to be going to COP15. Coming …
Adaptation
Increasingly, I see international collective efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions quickly and substantially to be pie-in-the-sky. There are some extremely influential behavioral dimensions that lie at the heart of high-level, large-scale collective actions like those being negotiated in Copenhagen – becoming all the more powerful as we deal with potentially transformative policies. I believe …
Copenhagen / Countdown (1) Potpourri
Copenhagen / Countdown (1) Potpourri I have been more than occupied with getting ready for the Conference of Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen in December. The University of Michigan will have more than 40 members in its delegation, and our students have successfully raised enough money to go. Here is the first of many thanks to …
Climate Blue 