Dan Mosteller and Angel Hsu
Two separate reports from Yale’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have measured the potential of non-state and sub-national actors to mitigate climate change by eliminating about one-fifth of the emissions gap. Read more.
United Nations Environment Programme
Initiatives which catalyse climate action are now recognised increasingly as playing an important role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and bridging the global emissions gap. There are several open questions about these initiatives at a global scale... Read more.
Angel Hsu and Amy Weinfurter
The success of the Paris climate talks, COP21, this December will not be measured by whether or not countries can all agree on a new global deal. It will rest on deals made outside the negotiation halls... Read more.
Stefanie Wnuck and Lucien Georgeson
Cities, states and regional governments, as well as non-state actors, are increasingly contributing to global climate change mitigation. The group of participants taking action is growing, and we are only beginning to quantify their impact. Read more.
Shelly Poticha
Something amazing is happening in the Southeast. Call it a groundswell, a call-to-action -- just don't call it a fluke. Southeastern cities are taking charge of their futures by addressing the key contributor to climate change in their cities...Read more.
Jake Schmidt, NRDC
Over the next six months countries, companies, cities, and citizens must work together in ways we have not in the past...Read more.
Clean Technica
Late yesterday, California sealed a Memorandum of Understanding ("Under 2 MOU") with 11 other states and provinces in the Americas and Europe to limit their greenhouse gas emissions to 80-95% by 2050 from 1990 levels...Read more.
Amy Weinfurter, Yale Center for Law and Environmental Policy
Close followers of the international climate negotiations are increasingly hopeful that cities businesses, and cross-sector coalitions will play a significant role in stemming the biggest environment threat of our time. Positive signs have begun to appear... Read more.
