By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
The business community must assume some of the responsibility for the lack of results at the UN climate talks last year in Copenhagen (COP15). However, the failure to produce a binding agreement at COP15 has not derailed UN efforts to secure a global a…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
In response to an absence of voluntary disclosure, major policy decisions are helping to provide investors with the information they need to make informed decisions about a company’s sustainable positioning.A record number of shareholder resolutions ar…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
In compliance with the Copenhagen Accord’s January 31 deadline, the US and Canada have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gases. Similar pledges were made by other large greenhouse gas emitters including Europe, Japan and Australia.Developing nations l…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
In compliance with the Copenhagen Accord’s January 31 deadline, the US and Canada have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gases. Similar pledges were made by other large greenhouse gas emitters including Europe, Japan and Australia.Developing nations l…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
On Thursday January 7, 2009 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed tougher smog standards. The new proposals contain the strictest smog standards ever enacted by an American government (between 60 and 70 parts per billion measured over eigh…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
President Obama is a multilateralist and a champion of emissions reductions, but he will not produce a binding agreement at COP15 because of the inaction of the US Senate.The President addressed those that oppose him during his Nobel Peace Prize accept…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
Canada already helps developing nations adapt to climate change and now the Canadian government has signalled that it is getting serious about reducing emissions at home.In a very significant development, on Thursday December 3, 2009, the ruling Conser…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
President Obama will attend COP15 in Copenhagen where he will promise the most ambitious targets America has ever proposed to reduce climate change causing greenhouse gases.The White House has announced 17 percent emissions reductions below 2005 levels…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
Climate change in Google Earth has built a site where you “explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen i…
By Richard Matthews in: Green Jobs
With 130 countries represented, this year’s Blog Action Day will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers and this year bloggers around the world are posting about climate c…