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Obama signs the EU airline emissions ban a year before the EU carbon reduction plan is slated to go into effect, sending the message that U.S. business interests will continue to take priority over responsible action on climate change.

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There is something that the US can do at the Panama talks to help achieve a positive outcome in Durban, something that’s not even much of a stretch: just get out of the way.

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will a reauthorization bill for the US FAA have anything to say about the steps that Europe is taking to reduce CO2 from aviation?

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Last week, lead US negotiator Todd Stern was called to testify before a hostile US House of Representative subcommittee.  At…

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A Long Time Coming

On November 26, 2009 By

President Obama’s going to Copenhagen with numbers in hand. Will either bit be enough?

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Waiting for America

On November 2, 2009 By

As the last round of “intersessional” climate talks before Copenhagen opened today in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United States.

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The (way too) slow dance

On October 1, 2009 By

The lesson from the first few days here in Bangkok: negotiations don’t go anywhere without U.S. numbers on the table. The problem is, even the delegates haven’t known what they can lay out there.

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