The last in a continuing series of backgrounders from Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office on the Copenhagen Summit. It begins with what many might consider an understatement:
The Copenhagen Climate Conference did not meet most expectations. After two weeks of negotiations, world leaders delivered a three-page non-binding political declaration (‘Copenhagen Accord’) that fails to provide a successor to [...]
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Cophenhangen: The Final Analysis
More Background on Copenhagen Climate Conference
Heres’s the third in a series of background briefs from Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office on issues that delegates from around the world will grapple with at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December. This brief focuses on reform of the Clean Development Mechanism, which will be negotiated in Copenhagen.
“The CDM is one of three flexible market-based mechanisms [...]
Financing Climate Change Remedies
A couple of weeks ago, we posted here a great overview by Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office of the December Copenhagen Climate Conference. Comes now a second installment in the Brussels Copenhagen series: a concise backgrounder on this ever-important question: how will the world pay for all the recommendations that will be under consideration at the Conference.
Handy Copenhagen Conference Guide
As it is said, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, and Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office has come to the rescue with a concise guide to what observers can expect from the Copenhagen Climate Conference, scheduled for December 2009. The overall objective of this much-anticipated event is for participating countries to draw up a new [...]
How Things Work in China, Part 2
The Global Times reports on the closing of a cadmium plant in Hunan province due to public protests over severe pollution. The story describes the frustration of people living close to the plant, who have been complaining about the toxic emissions for two years without a response from local officials. There are two ways to [...]
Dan Baxter on the China-US S&ED
The China Daily newspaper is one of the most authoritative news sources in China with a daily circulation of more than 300,000 in 150 countries. Today, it published a column by Fleishman Hillard’s Dan Baxter, a senior vice president in the Beijing office on the top level U.S. China meetings in Washington called the Strategic [...]
Sotomayor’s Record on Environmental and Energy Issues
Early examination of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial record has primarily focused on her stance toward affirmative action, but a closer look reveals clues about how she may vote on several looming energy and environmental issues. While her record on these issues is limited, two decisions reveal varied but strong opinions by the jurist.
Public Utilities and Renewable Energy
Sunny View from Fog City: A series that looks at the state of solar policy, industry and politics from the 20th floor of 555 Market St., San Francisco.
Many NorCal residents seem to harbor unusually warm feelings for PG&E, the investor-owned utility (IOU), in spite of the high rates they charge for electricity, compared with other [...]
SF=Solar Francisco
Sunny View from Fog City: A series that looks at the state of solar policy, industry and politics from the 20th floor of 555 Market st., San Francisco.
This second installment in the solar series of posts comes back to the city of San Francisco, home of Harvey Milk and, of course, Mayor Gavin Newsom, fourth [...]
Sunny View from Fog City
A series that looks at the state of solar policy, industry and politics from the 20th floor of 555 Market St., San Francisco.
What works for Berkeley works for America. Or?
I recently watched a documentary on UC Berkeley in the ’60: its influence on the civil rights movement, freedom of speech (on and off campus) and [...]
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