[…] “As the two largest consumers and producers of energy, there can be no solution to this challenge without the efforts of both China and the United States,” Obama said November 17 in a joint statement with Chinese President Hu Jintao. During their talks, the two leaders made progress on the climate change issue, Obama said. Along with a series of joint initiatives on clean energy, China and the United States agreed to work together to make the Copenhagen conference a success.

[…] Warm thanks to the Kyoto Club for the invitation to come here. It is very appropriate to be discussing the climate challenge in the context of a clean technology event, because innovation in low-carbon technology is absolutely key to addressing the climate challenge.

[…] Human health ebbs and flows with the seasons, but the current confluence of extreme weather, global climate change and the shifting distribution of disease are driving the need for more active collaboration between climate scientists and public health experts. Meetings between health and climate experts have been increasing since early 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirmed that Earth’s climate is changing and human activity is affecting that change.

[…] While President Obama has pledged a U.S. commitment to lead the campaign against the dangers of climate change through global partnerships, a complicating factor confronting such sweeping international efforts is the need to obtain approval from sometimes reluctant national legislatures. The United States Constitution authorizes the president to negotiate treaties with foreign governments, but stipulates that the U.S. Senate must ratify them with a two-thirds majority vote before they can become binding on the United States

[…] We are making our government's largest ever investment in renewable energy -- an investment aimed at doubling the generating capacity from wind and other renewable resources in three years. Across America, entrepreneurs are constructing wind turbines and solar panels and batteries for hybrid cars with the help of loan guarantees and tax credits -- projects that are creating new jobs and new industries.

[…] Il Presidente Obama ha affermato che gli Stati Uniti devono svolgere un ruolo di guida nell’azione mondiale contro i cambiamenti climatici. Siamo consapevoli che una soluzione a questo problema è impossibile senza una riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra da parte degli Stati Uniti e per questo intendiamo guidare il processo di trasformazione verso un’economia del XXI secolo basata sull’energia pulita.

[…] The common theme among nonproliferation, women in conflict, food security and climate change is that those types of issues “have an impact on real people” as well as on governments and have immediate impacts on security, says the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for International Organizations Esther Brimmer. The Obama administration has said it is pursuing a more multilateral approach to achieving its major foreign policy goals than its predecessor did, and Brimmer told America.gov that the main source for the new emphasis is the president himself.

[…] “Part of what we’re doing at the meeting is thinking about what end users need,” Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and head of the U.S. delegation to WCC-3, told America.gov. “Is it data, is it technical assistance, is it analysis and prediction, is it better communication of what’s known, is it decision-support tools? It’s probably all of that … but what are the priorities, what are the most urgent needs?”

[…] We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States met as the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in L’Aquila, Italy, on July 9, 2009, and declare as follows: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As leaders of the world’s major economies, both developed and developing, we intend to respond vigorously to this challenge, being convinced that climate change poses a clear danger requiring an extraordinary global response, that the response should respect the priority of economic and social development of developing countries […]

[…] Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, and Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School as well as a medical doctor trained in tropical public health, came together to discuss the situation at a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars event, “Healthy Solutions to Climate Change.”

[…] Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, and Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School as well as a medical doctor trained in tropical public health, came together to discuss the situation at a Woodrow Wilson International Center.

[…] The new standards, covering model years 2012-2016, and ultimately requiring an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 mpg in 2016, are projected to save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the life of the program with a fuel economy gain averaging more than 5 percent per year and a reduction of approximately 900 million metric tons in greenhouse gas emissions. This would surpass the CAFE law passed by Congress in 2007 required an average fuel economy of 35 mpg in 2020.

[…] Scientists are combining climate-related data sets, data from Earth-observing satellites and mathematical models of organism behavior to forecast the effects of environmental change on ecosystems, much like how meteorologists forecast weather and climate. Ecological forecasts — critical new tools in development for resource managers on a planet whose climate is warming — predict the effects of biological, chemical and physical changes in the environment.

[…] presso l'Ambasciata Americana di Roma si è tenuto un incontro sul tema dei cambiamenti climatici e sull’energia.
Il panel era composto dalla prof.ssa Sally Benson, Direttrice del “Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP)” e docente presso la Stanford University, da Thomas Delare, Ministro Consigliere per gli Affari Economici, e da Adriano Piglia, Direttore del Centro Studi del SAFE (Sostenibilità Ambientale e Fonti Energetiche).

[…] The issue of climate change has gained prominence in the Western press, but in many developing countries the topic rarely appears in headlines, and citizens remain relatively uninformed about the risks they face from environmental degradation. “Climate change is one of the most pressing problems for reporters to cover in the developing world and is something that is being largely neglected,” said Oren Murphy, regional manager for Southeast Asia at the nonprofit Internews Network.

Lo scorso 17 febbraio la speaker della Camera dei deputati degli Stati Uniti Nancy Pelosi é stata ospite del Centro Studi Americani in occasione della conferenza dal titolo “ Contrasto al cambiamento climatico: sulla strada verso Copenhagen “

Governments and organizations involved in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agreed that new and stronger evidence of the likelihood and likely impacts of extreme weather events with consequences for societies and natural systems. They also found increased evidence that low-latitude and less-developed areas generally face greater risk than higher-latitude and more-developed countries.

[…] Today, in the United States and worldwide, there is no official source for the kind of authoritative, accessible and timely climate information that communities and regions will need to understand, mitigate and adapt over time to climate variability and change. If established, a U.S. National Climate Service might provide such products and services. Representatives from a range of federal agencies have come together over the years to debate the mission, scope and leadership of such a service.

[…] Carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities is causing changes in Earth’s surface temperature, rainfall and sea level that are measurable now, new research says, and that will continue for the next thousand years. Susan Solomon, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, led the study, published the week of January 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[…] Climate change is a planetary process, but its effects — sea level rise, shrinking glaciers, changes in plant and animal distribution, early-blooming trees, permafrost thaws — are regional and local.
Some of the effects are already occurring, and the newly installed Obama administration, in power for just more than a week, is moving fast to put the United States in a leadership position to work with nations of the world and meet the challenges of climate change and energy security.

[…] President Bush has taken a reasoned, balanced approach to the serious challenges of energy security and climate change. The President supports a climate change policy that takes advantage of new clean energy technologies; increases our use of alternative fuels; works towards an international agreement that will slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gases; and includes binding commitments from all major economies.

[…] Nearly 11,000 people are meeting in Poznan, Poland, December 1–12, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference to discuss long-term cooperative action, including mechanisms to help developing countries lower greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the effects of climate change. The two-week meeting is the 14th Conference of 192 parties (COP-14) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fourth meeting of 183 parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

[…] U.S. - China Joint Fact Sheet: Ten Year Energy and Environment Cooperation Recognizing that energy and environmental challenges represent two important issues facing our two countries, the United States and the People's Republic of China signed the Ten Year Framework on Energy and Environment Cooperation in Annapolis, Maryland during SED IV on June 18, 2008. Building upon the Ten Year Framework, the U.S. and China agreed to the following:

[…] During the first day of the fifth Cabinet-level meeting of the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED), 15 U.S. Cabinet officials and agency heads joined Secretary Paulson for discussions with China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan and a delegation of 21 Chinese ministers and agency heads. Following a robust and productive discussion on strengthening cooperation in energy and the environment, the officials signed an EcoPartnerships Framework

[…] This is truly a special and unique occasion: An opportunity for us to gather together – both representatives of government and representatives of NGOs and members of civil society – to support people around the world who are striving to lift themselves out of poverty, to forge lives of dignity for themselves and their families, and to build a world that is not only more stable, but more just. Not a perfect world, but a better world.

[…] Il noto attore Harrison Ford ha deciso di registrare senza compenso tre annunci televisivi di 30 secondi ciascuno ad ulteriore dimostrazione del proprio impegno nella difesa delle specie naturali protette

[…] In the first five months of 2008, drivers traveled 2.4 percent fewer miles than in the same period of 2007, according to the U.S. Transportation Department. Trips on subways, buses and light rail reached a 50-year high in 2007. Bicycle riding has skyrocketed. Sales of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles have plummeted.

[…] The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is prominent in political action. Its stated goal is “turning environmental values into national priorities,” which it attempts to do through informing voters about environmental issues and mobilizing grassroots support.
Independent and nonpartisan, it maintains a “national environmental scorecard” on important legislation and a “presidential report card.”

[…] The proposal by the agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water was issued under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act, which protects underground water sources from injection-related activities. Elements of the proposed rule are based on EPA’s existing underground injection control program, which addresses five categories of wells. The proposed rule would add a sixth category specifically for geologic storage of carbon dioxide 800 meters or more underground.