By DR. MIRIAM ACZEL (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rejoining the Paris Agreement On June 1, 2017, in a blow to climate action, Donald Trump announced that...
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“L’Affaire du Siècle”: Over 2 Million Supporters of Groundbreaking Climate Lawsuit
By MIRIAM ACZEL Just weeks after the widespread Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests swept across France for the better part of December, a petition commonly known...
A sleeping giant has awakened
A sleeping giant has awakened. Instead of looking at the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as a negative, look at this as the passing of the baton to American businesses and citizens to do what Americans do best—innovate and lead!
Opinion: The frog, climate change, and Trump
There is a short analogy that has been used to explain the human response to climate change (whether in the form of denial, inaction, or delay, or simply nonchalance): that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will hop right out, but if you put the frog in a pot of cold water and then turn on the burner, he will remain calmly in the pot until he is fully cooked.
The analogy does provide some insight into our lackadaisical response to a changing climate. From a human perspective, climate change is indeed a slow-moving phenomenon, but geologically-speaking, it is incredibly rapid. As a set of events and changes unleashed primarily by our discovery of fossil fuels some 300 years ago (and dramatically increased rates of extraction and combustion mostly in the last hundred), a cognitive sense of changing climate is distributed across only a dozen generations – either too slow to notice, or too ambiguous to come to conclusions about causality.
Leaders Discuss Scenarios for 100% Renewable Energy Global Architecture
By SILVIA LEAHU-ALUAS, Leaders in Energy, Director – Sustainable Manufacturing The second conversation of Leaders in Energy without Borders, held in Google Hangout session...
UNA-NCA Acts on Affordable Clean Energy
By EMILY SCHAUB, UNA-NCA Program Coordinator Note: The original article appeared on the United Nations Association – National Capital Area website and is being reposted...