Climate action is a powerful engine for new industries and jobs, and the next challenge for America's Genius
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The Presidential Climate Action Plan Security, Opportunity, Stewardship The principal challenge facing the Obama Administration is to rally the nation to create a new 21st century economy. The United States, like other industrialized nations, has arrived at the cusp between two eras. The outgoing era has been powered largely by carbon-rich fossil fuels with an operating ethic of dominion over natural systems. The incoming era will embrace the responsibility of stewardship and will be powered by carbon-free and largely renewable resources. » Read More |
Fierce Urgency of Now
Bill Becker, the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project presents a two part video depicting what we've learned about climate change over the last three years and what we can do about it.
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The American people and the world community are watching closely for indications of how President Obama addresses Global Climate Change. The Presidential Climate Action Project has developed a bold, comprehensive and non-partisan plan for presidential leadership rooted in climate science and designed to ignite innovation at every level of the American economy.
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Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power
President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.
By Peter Barker, courtesy of the New York Times
From Copenhagen Accord to Climate Action: Tracking National Commitments to Curb Global Warming
Natural Resources Defense Council has created this page to track the progress of the national commitments that were part of the Copenhagen Accord.
Courtesy of National Resource Defense Council
Up-to-Date Climate Change News
02/24/2010 04:25 AM
Why Blizzards are Linked to Global Warming
As the blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they may stop to wonder two things: Why haven't we bothered to invest in a snow blower, and what happened to climate change?
NY water plan could cost power generators billions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York environmental regulators this week released a plan to protect aquatic life in the state's rivers that could cost power generators billions to upgrade their facilities.
Kenya strongly opposes resumption of ivory trade
NAIROBI, March 12 (Reuters ) - Kenya Friday underlined its strong opposition to any move to lift a ban on trading ivory ahead of a meeting on endangered species.
White House finalizing rules to cut car emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to slash oil imports and fight climate change.
Report Gives Sobering View of Warming's Impact on U.S.
A new U.S. government report paints a disturbing picture of the current and future effects of climate change and offers a glimpse of what the nation's climate will be like by century's end.
For anyone wondering whether climate change has already hit the United States, a recent U.S. government report says it has — and in a big way.
By Michael D. Lemonick
Read the full column here.
Climate Security Index
Changes in the Earth's climate are more evident every day, but the United States has failed to act, alone or with allies, to avoid disaster. Addressing the consequences of changes in the Earth's climate is not simply about saving polar bears or preserving the beauty of mountain glaciers, important as those are. Climate change is a threat to our national security.
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The Presidential Climate Action Project and St. Martin's Press of New York have issued a condensed version of PCAP's presidential climate action plan in book form - an early glimpse of what we'll submit to the next President of the United States. The book is available in electronic format to reduce its carbon footprint. It features hyperlinks to many of the studies and other documents on which the plan's recommendations are based. Click here if you'd like to purchase the book. Net proceeds will support PCAP's continuing work on presidential climate leadership.
