Stories: International Cooperation on Climate & Energy

At the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP-17) in Durban – “the longest COP ever” – Parties agreed to establish an Ad

I touched down in Durban, South Africa, on Sunday night met by a cool tropical breeze.

This post was written in collaboration with Kevin McCall.

Three years ago, I attended a performance of Athol Fugard’s powerful play “My Children!

This post originally appeared in the National Journal Energy & Environment Expert

Are our current efforts to avert dangerous climate change, safeguard the development aspirations of vulnerable communities, and catalyze the transition to a low-carbon future sufficient?

Though forests play an essential role in international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the development of systems to monitor deforestation and forest degradation has been slow.

With all its complex processes and acronyms, it’s easy to forget that the international climate change negotiations are supposed to lead to changes on the ground.

The Cancun Adaptation Framework agreed during COP16 provides potential for a new action orientation to adaptation under the UNFCCC.

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. This is one reason it is important to track countries’ individual and aggregate progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.