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 [...]
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Immigration: A Few More Steps Forward
About a week after we noted that President Obama has sent out new signals that his administration intends to press for a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year, he met with a group of members of Congress to urge them to make that legislation happen. So the journey continues — though it has a long [...]
Gordon Brown’s Challenges in Wake of Local and European Parliament Elections
Our Fleishman-Hillard colleagues in London have graciously shared with us a report they issued yesterday analyzing Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s challenges — in light of a whole host of resignations among his Cabinet and party in Parliament. Correspondingly, the Prime Minister’s Labour Party suffered some setbacks in European Parliament elections over the weekend as well, [...]
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.
Chinese Food Safety Law Sets High Bar for Food Companies and Communications Professionals
The Food Safety Law of China is scheduled to go into effect on June 1, 2009. For the first time in Chinese legal history, the new Law specifically states that food companies are the first party of responsibility in the food safety chain, unequivocally stipulating that strict compliance with the law is the top priority [...]
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 [...]
Immigration Reform: If Not Now, When?
I HAVE TO CONFESS that when The White House announced a few weeks ago that it intends to pursue a (long overdue) comprehensive reform of our nation’s immigration policy, I was a bit skeptical. Hadn’t we just gone through a bruising and ultimately counterproductive exercise to pass an immigration reform bill a couple of years [...]
Why Dismissing Twitter is Short-Sighted
New developments in media and technology are often ignored and dismissed as passing fads, only to change the paradigm of how people work, live, and communicate. Time has shown that media and technology are inherently tied to progress. Time has also shown that those who ignore the evolution of communication mediums are destined to play catch [...]
The Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill: How Will It Play Out?
The 600-page Waxman-Markey climate change bill (officially known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act) is truly a climate change wish list. Introduced in late March, it includes funding for renewable energy and clean coal technology; a renewable portfolio standard; provisions to increase home and office energy efficiency; measures to stimulate the smart grid and alternative-fuel vehicles development; [...]
4/20 – Marijuana Advocates Seize the Day
According to California lore, the term 4/20 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen marijuana-smoking teens and it was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet to indulge in their favorite past-time.
Today, April 20th, in California and other states, advocates of legalizing marijuana seem [...]
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