climate

COP15 Update: Limited Access, Tenuous Talks

Major disagreements remain between rich and poor nations regarding how to pay for what is sure to be an expensive climate treaty. Read more

Americans Reject Big Oil’s Big Money Blitz

There’s a dirty little secret about the Big Oil-funded campaign against clean energy & climate legislation: It’s been a huge failure. Read more

New Poll: Americans Know Clean Energy & Climate Action Create Jobs

A new Associated Press poll out this morning is giving a big boost to the prospects of a clean energy & climate bill in the Senate. Read more

NWF’s Jeremy Symons: Mind the Gaps

When 120 foreign leaders converge on Copenhagen later this week, they will need to watch their step for other reasons – minding the two “gaps” that have turned these negotiations into a minefield. Read more

Promising News from Arkansas for Senate Climate Bill

As Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman unveiled their Senate clean energy and climate framework yesterday, prospects for progress got a boost from Arkansas Senators Lincoln and Pryor.
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Climate Denial Event Gets Derailed, Then Speaker Goes Unhinged

Americans for Prosperity had hoped to get their climate denial message webcast to over 40 events back here in the United States. Instead, those events witnessed students demanding clean energy — and one of the AFP speakers coming unhinged. Read more

Live from Copenhagen!

This is Christine Dorsey, communications director for National Wildlife Federation, and I’m on the ground in Copenhagen at the United Nations climate conference, or as it’s known around the world, COP15 – that’s short for the 15th Conference of Parties (to a global climate treaty). Read more

Duke Energy: Blowing the Minds of the Talking Heads

Duke Energy, America’s third-largest electric utility, backs President Obama’s call for comprehensive climate and energy legislation. Read more

Good News For Climate Deal? Obama Shifts Copenhagen Schedule

UPDATE 6:52pm: NWF President & CEO Larry Schweiger just issued a statement on Obama’s schedule change, saying, “By attending the global climate talks in Copenhagen during the heart of the … Read more

Keeping Score on Global Climate Talks

As the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark prepare to get underway next week, a team of scientists has introduced a new tool called the Climate Scoreboard.
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