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Climate action predictions
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- April 8 2013
On April 2, London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute Chairman Lord Nicholas Stern said 2013 presented the best opportunity yet to have
COPMOP begins
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- December 2 2012
The 18th Conference of Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 8th Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol began their annual two weeks of climate talks in Doha, Qatar November 26, and international negotiators will grapple with what kind of actions will be required of industrialized and rapidly developing nations in a 2020 global climate agreement while also ensuring the extension of CO2 caps under the Kyoto protocol
U.S. global climate participation needed
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- October 28 2012
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Christiana Figueres said October 24 that the next U.S. administration will need to ensure that the country is not left behind as the world works to address climate change by embracing clean energy and energy efficiency
WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- China, European Union, Global, Japan, USA
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- July 15 2012
The European Union, Japan, and the United States placed July 13 a second request on the World Trade Organization’s July 23 Dispute Settlement Body agenda asking the organization to establish a dispute panel to rule whether China’s restrictions on rare earths exports violate global trade rules
US pledges $2 billion for sustainable development
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- June 24 2012
The United States Department of State pledged at the Rio20 summit June 21 $2 billion in grants, loans, and loan guarantees to Sustainable Energy for All, an international initiative aimed at supporting development and clean energy projects launched by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last September
Cities reducing emissions
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- June 24 2012
In June 19 remarks delivered at the opening ceremony of a C40 group of cities climate change meeting in Rio de Janeiro, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that a coalition of the world’s largest cities is advancing toward its goal of reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by 250 MMT by 2020 and could quadruple that amount by 2030
Global fossil fuel emissions rise
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- May 27 2012
On May 24, the International Energy Agency released a report finding that fossil fuel combustion’s worldwide carbon dioxide emissions reached 31.6 gigatons in 2011, up 3.2 from 2010 and a record
Short-lived pollutants pledge
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- May 27 2012
Group of Eight leaders pledged at the conclusion of their May 18-19 meeting in Camp David, Maryland, to curb black carbon, methane, and other short-lived pollutants linked to carbon change
Short-lived pollutant coalition
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Colombia, European Union, Global, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, USA
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- April 29 2012
Norway, Nigeria, Colombia, Japan, the European Commission, and the World Bank joined a coalition April 24 formed earlier this year by the United States and other countries to curb black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons
IFC green bonds launched
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global, USA
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- April 29 2012
On April 27, the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's private sector affiliate, announced it has raised $500 million for climate-friendly investment in its first round of “green bonds”
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