In a time of high frustration over the state of US political engagement with climate change, it’s important to acknowledge the progress being made around the world on climate change and the environment. Even if, as Ed Waisenen noted in Climate Blue’s last blog post, environmental progress is stalled or reversed at the national level, …
Continue reading Climate Progress Doesn’t Have to be Limited by Politics
By: Ed Wäisänen I recently attended a panel on Advancing Environmental Sustainability in the Trump Era, put on by the School of Natural Resources and Environment at UM. The conversation echoed a wider discussion among liberals and the Left about how to respond to the 2016 election and was, at the very least, an opportunity to frame the …
Continue reading Charting a Course for Sustainability Under Trump
The following blog is a contribution of Alan Miller, a lawyer and internationally recognized expert on climate finance and policy. Watching the election results from a hotel in Marrakech, the site of the latest climate negotiations, was a sobering experience. To realize that the future of the planet may now be so influenced by a person …
During his turbulent and controversial candidacy, United States President-elect Donald J. Trump put forward relatively few concrete policy proposals. Vague promises of renegotiating trade deals, funding infrastructure projects, and returning the country to a past state of ill-defined greatness were rarely accompanied by anything substantial enough to call a plan. There were, however, several concrete …
Continue reading Can Donald Trump “Cancel” the Paris Agreement?
Following Tuesday’s election, a lot of people back home have asked us, What does this mean for climate change, US climate policy, and the Paris Agreement? One aspect of this question, the impact of the new leadership on domestic actions, was addressed in Part 1 of this post. However, the election has a broader …
On November 9th, 2016 we woke up here in Marrakech as most of our American friends/family were sleeping (or maybe laying awake unable to sleep). As each one of us made our way downstairs, we thought Sachi was joking when she shared the election news – having to confirm via Google for ourselves (much to …
The 21st Conference of Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (UNFCCC) was recently held in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015. The COP was attended by over 40,000 delegates which included representatives from more than 190 countries who got together to come to a decision on responding …
Continue reading A Graduate Student Reflection on the COP21 in Paris, Mayank Vikas
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