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Monday 10:30 EST Press Teleconference: What U.S. Youth Want Out of the UN Climate Talks

On Monday, Nov. 22, SustainUS and partner youth organizations Cascade Climate Network and the Chinese Youth Delegation will be hosting a call-in teleconference for media to discuss key issues for Cancun and plans for U.S.-Chinese youth collaboration during the talks.
The teleconference will be at 10:30 a.m. EST. Media can join via [...]

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Due by June 4 – Application to UN climate negotiations in Cancun, December 2010

Applications are now available for SustainUS’s Agents of Change delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, November 29-December 10.
Applicants must be 18-26 years old at the start of the negotiations, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or have been studying or [...]

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Make it count: Add products and packaging to the U.S. GHG Inventory

EPA’S draft update of the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990 – 2008) is open for comment. This is a great opportunity to get the systems -based, greenhouse gas accounting view added to the US Inventory. (Note: For those of you that are not GHG-nerds, the EPA inventory is basically THE source of data and analysis [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Murkowski Vs. the EPA

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
On Thursday afternoon, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pulled out a rarely-used Congressional tool in an attempt to keep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon and other greenhouse gasses. Sen. Murkowski offered a “resolution of disapproval” of the EPA’s impending action, which would limit companies’ carbon emissions.
The resolution would [...]

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Weekly Mulch: EPA, Clean Air Act Facing Opposition

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Climate change legislation is off the table for now, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is still working to regulate greenhouse gasses. The organization is up against strong opposition from Republicans and some Democrats. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is heading the charge, with the assistance of Bush-era EPA officials, now [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Reform’s Good, Bad, and Ugly

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
The next United Nations climate change conference is almost a year away, and health care is still dominating the legislative agenda in Washington. That means climate reform opponents, from the coal industry to the global warming skeptics, have plenty of time to work, out of the spotlight, to derail progress. [...]

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The Road to Copenhagen

Climate change is the most important issue the planet and its people are facing today.Meeting that challenge will define a generation and dictate the extent of the impacts to be felt by generations to come.

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