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September 29, 2014
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This image, taken September 23, shows protesters in the Climate March in New York City, courtesy of People's Climate March.
President Obama Announces New Initiatives at United Nations Climate Summit
On September 23, at the United Nations (UN) Climate Summit in New York City, President Obama gave a four-minute address during which he highlighted the work the United States is doing internationally and domestically on climate change. During his speech, Obama issued a new Executive Order requiring federal agencies to factor climate change-resilience systematically into international development work, and to encourage multilateral organizations to do the same. The new Order aims to improve the resilience of US international aid abroad, share US data and tools, and complement domestic efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, President Obama announced a new public-private partnership to disseminate climate data, tools and training in developing countries. This partnership will aim to create a global community of information-sharing of climate data and climate change adaptation efforts. Obama added that the US will also begin to help provide information to meteorologists in developing nations, develop new prediction systems for extreme weather, and release high-resolution elevation datasets to Africa. “There should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate,” Obama said. The United States also assisted in the launch of the new Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership, the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance, and the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation, all announced at the Summit. During his speech, Obama underlined the leadership responsibility that the United States and China jointly bear as the world’s largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters.
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The White House, EESI
Secretary Kerry Co-Hosts Major Economies Forum on Climate Change
On September 21 Secretary of State John Kerry co-hosted the first Major Economies Forum (MEF) Foreign Ministers Meeting, along with the foreign ministers of Peru and France. The State Department says the meeting sought to “build political will and a sense of common cause to address climate change as a foreign policy priority,” and that Secretary Kerry would use the meeting as a venue to both encourage countries to set climate targets and explore ideas for climate mitigation co-benefits. At the Forum, Kerry said in his comments, “Unlike many of the challenges we face, when it comes to climate change we know exactly what it takes to get the job done. There’s no mystery to this. The solution to climate change is energy policy. If we make the right choices about how we build buildings, how we transport people, what we do with respect to providing electricity and power to our countries, this problem gets solved.” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of France added in his comments, “We are here, we as foreign affair ministers, in order to try to express this political will [to act on climate change]. And I’m certain we’ll make it number one.” MEF was formed in 2009 to facilitate dialogue between developed and developing nations on climate change issues. Participants in the Forum are Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
State Department, Kerry Speech, WEF
State Department Releases Plan for International Climate Deal
On September 18 the State Department submitted to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change a 13-page vision of what a post-2020 global climate agreement should look like. In the document, the United States favors an initial five-year plan for greenhouse gas cuts, from 2020-2025, as opposed to the ten-year planned favored by the European Union. According to the writers, “If the end date were 2030, which some have suggested, parties might be unsure about how ambitious they could be. We might end up locking in ambition at a lower level than would have been possible had we first chosen 2025 and then made new contributions for 2030.” Liz Gallagher, head of international climate policy at think-tank E3G, commented, “[The US’s] focus on shorter commitment periods as a means to consistently return to the table and ratchet up ambition is helpful. But this will only work if the agreement explicitly spells out a more concrete long-term goal, along the lines of phasing out fossil fuels by 2050. Without a long-term tangible target, there will be no benchmark to assess the adequacy of their five-year carbon budgets.” Additionally, the document calls for “as many submissions as possible” of leading economies’ “intended nationally determined contributions” (IDNC) by a June UN meeting in Bonn, as opposed to the first quarter of next year as agreed upon at the Warsaw summit last December. The report states, “We do not see a need to develop a highly structured or engineered process.” Special Envoy Todd Stern from the State Department said that the Obama Administration's renewed focus on climate change has affected international perception and put the United States in “stronger standing.”
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RTCC, Reuters, UNFCCC
United Nations Secretary-General Holds Climate Summit
On September 23, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon convened a Climate Summit in New York City. More than 162 government representatives attended the conference, including 126 heads of state and government, making it the largest international climate change meeting since the Copenhagen Summit of 2009. Although the one-day summit was not an official international negotiation conference, it aimed to advance the development of an international agreement to combat climate change before the UN Climate Change Conference of 2015 in Paris, France. During the opening ceremony, Ban Ki-moon stated, “Climate change threatens hard-won peace, prosperity and opportunity for billions of people. Today, we must set the world on a new course.” During the event, President Obama issued new directives to federal agencies to help developing countries tackle climate change; French President François Hollande promised $1 billion to the Green Climate Fund; 200 mayors, representing 400 million people, signed a Mayor’s Compact to reduce annual emissions 12.4 to 16.4 percent; 40 companies, dozens of NGOs, several governments and indigenous peoples took a pledge to halve deforestation by 2020 and end it by 2030; and many other significant voluntary commitments were taken. Countries are expected to make many more commitments and deals before the anticipated climate deal is crafted in Paris, December 2015.
EESI, The White House, The New York Times
People’s Climate March in NYC Is Largest Climate March in History
On September 22, the People’s Climate March, the largest climate march in history, was held in New York City. Nearly 400,000 people, including former Vice President Al Gore, actor Leonardo Dicaprio and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, participated in the protest. Eddie Bautista, executive director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, said, “We said it would take everyone to change everything — and everyone showed up.” In the rallies, activists not only expressed their worries about climate change issues such as sea level rise and the occurrence of more frequent natural disasters, but also stated their opposition towards general environmental issues such as hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. A fine-arts student, Joe George, said, “I keep imagining where I live in Brooklyn, just under water. It’s horrifying. You can’t stop the Atlantic Ocean.” Myrtle Williams, a worker at a nursing home in the Rockaways in Queens, also said, “It is important that everyone wakes up and realizes that what happened yesterday could happen tomorrow.” The People’s Climate March in New York City is one of 2,646 climate change events that all took place on Sunday in 156 countries, to build awareness of climate change issues before the UN Climate Summit on September 23.
Times, Politico, New York Daily News
Over 100 Climate Protesters Arrested on Wall Street
On September 22, more than 100 climate protesters were arrested during a sit-in demonstration in which more than 1,000 activists blocked parts of Broadway in Manhattan's financial district to protest corporate and economic institutions’ perceived role in climate change. The event, called “Flood Wall Street,” came a day after about 400,000 protesters filled the streets of New York in what has been described as the largest protest ever against climate change. According to Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, “World leaders have failed all of us on the climate crisis, and frustration has hit a tipping point—not just for the environmental movement but for people around the globe.” Suckling and the Center for Biological Diversity’s co-founder were among those arrested. Photographs on Twitter showed some protesters in costumes of a polar bear and “Captain Planet,” while others held signs with slogans such as “Capitalism=climate chaos,” “Consumerism is killing everything,” and “Carbon tax the ecocidal maniacs.” One of the protesters, Ben Shapiro, an urban farmer and bread maker from Youngstown, Ohio, said, “I wanted to come specifically to disrupt Wall Street because it's Wall Street that's fueling this. I’m going after the source of the problem.” The event was meant to stir up memories of Hurricane Sandy, which flooded parts of Lower Manhattan two years ago. Another protester, Alexis Smallwood, whose home in Far Rockaway was flooded by the storm, said, “We're really fighting for resiliency.”
POLITICO, Reuters, ABC News
DOT Announces $3.6 Billion Fund for Climate Resilient Public Transportation
On September 22, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced $3.6 billion in new disaster relief funding for climate change-resilient public transportation infrastructure in communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. Ninety percent of the funding will go to New York and New Jersey, where Sandy caused the worst damage. Connecticut, Washington D.C., Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania will share the remainder. The resilience projects will include flood proofing, creating back-up power supply for transit facilities, buying storm resistant ferries, and improving underground pumping capacity. The projects were selected through a competitive process in which they had to demonstrate they would “reduce the risk of damage to public transportation assets inflicted by future natural disasters,” especially to the most important and vulnerable infrastructure, according to DOT. “We’ve made great progress rebuilding critical transit connections since Hurricane Sandy,” said Secretary Foxx. “We want to make sure no one pays for these repairs twice.”
The Hill, DOT, List of Projects
HUD and Rockefeller Announce $1 Billion Competition on Climate Resilience
On September 17, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Rockefeller Foundation teamed up to announce a $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition that aims to assist communities in 48 states, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., who have undergone “Presidentially Declared Major Disasters at any point between 2011 and 2013.” The competition, funded by the Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery (CDBG-DR) appropriation, is a response to requests from state, local, and tribal leaders of the aforementioned communities for help from the federal government to support climate change resilience efforts and investments. HUD Secretary, Julián Castro, said the competition “will help spur innovation, creatively distribute limited federal resources, and help communities across the country cope with the reality of severe weather that is being made worse by climate change.” Dr. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, commented, “The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to spurring innovation in resilience planning and design so that communities can build better, more resilient futures, particularly for their most vulnerable citizens.” To qualify, each of the 67 eligible applicants need to tie their project proposals into the natural disasters from which they have been struggling to recover, as well as show how the projects will help them respond to future disasters. Applications for phase one of the competition, the ‘framing’ phrase during which applicants will consider their ‘disaster recovery needs, vulnerabilities, stakeholder interests, resilience and other community development investment alternatives,’ are due by March 2015. Applicants who successfully pass Phase 1 will refine their ideas in Phase 2, the ‘analysis phase,’ later that same year. HUD will decide on the winners during Phase 2 of the competition, and give the best ideas funding for implementation.
PR Newswire, Insurance Business America, Philanthropy News Digest, Rockefeller Foundation website
Mayors of LA, Houston, and Philadelphia Pledge More Action on Climate
On September 22, the mayors of Los Angeles, Houston, and Philadelphia announced a new initiative to take stronger action against climate change, through city level projects focused on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The plan, called the Mayors’ National Climate Action Agenda, supports carbon emissions cuts, a global agreement on climate, and the prioritization of environmental justice in climate plans. It includes projects such as new annual tracking and reporting standards for pollution, urban forestry, landfill gas capture, and destruction of substances that have ozone-depleting effects. “Mayors must confront this challenge not only at the local level, but also by calling for binding emission reductions at the federal and global level,” wrote Los Angeles Mayor Eric Gracetti. The mayors are all members of a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience developed by President Obama last year. They have also promised to recruit other city leaders to sign the Agenda. Houston Mayor Annise Parker showed pride in these developments, saying, “Houston has proven that it can maintain its title as the energy capital of the world while at the same time pursuing green policies that lift our reputation as a leader in sustainability.”
In related news, on September 23 at the United Nations Climate Summit, mayors from around the world made commitments to increase energy efficiency programs, climate resilience projects, and resilient financing mechanisms. The new initiative, called the Compact of Mayors, aims to reduce GHG emissions by 454 megatons within the decade. The Compact’s membership includes mayors from over 2,000 cities, who committed to more than 200 targets and strategies for GHG reduction. “Cities are economic and population hubs, making them critical actors in the fight against climate change,” remarked Mpho Parks Tau, Mayor of Johannesburg, who added that this compact represents over 500 million people around the world. With 60 percent of the world’s population projected to live in cities by 2030, making cities sustainable is an important part of any emissions reductions strategy. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stressed the necessity of both local and national action, stating, “Now is the time for nations to partner with cities as they create more ambitious climate targets over the next year, both to help the world avoid the worst impacts of climate change and to benefit millions of people.”
LA Times, Click 2 Houston, The Hill, United Nations
Countries and Power Companies Sign United Nations Methane Emissions Deal
On September 23 during the United Nations Climate Summit, six global energy firms and more than a dozen national governments came together in a new United Nations framework, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Oil and Gas Partnership, to cut methane emissions from oil and gas operations worldwide. According to the White House, the Partnership “provides involved companies with a systematic, cost-effective approach for reducing their methane emissions and for credibly demonstrating to stakeholders the impacts of their actions.” So far, industry members include BG Group from Britain, ENI from Italy, Premex from Mexico, PTT from Thailand, Statoil from Norway, and Southwestern Energy from Texas. Participating governments include the United States, Canada, France, Norway and Russia. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere about 84 times more than carbon dioxide (CO2) over 20 years, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says oil and gas operations are the second-largest source of human-caused methane emissions, after agriculture. Statoil’s CEO Helge Lund, one of the Partnership’s founding industry members, commented, “Fighting climate change is vital. More than 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are linked to the use of fossil fuels. Statoil has a clear objective to be recognized as the most carbon-efficient oil and gas producer in the world.” The Partnership is an initiative of CCAC, founded in 2012 to reduce short-lived climate pollutants such as methane. CCAC’s new Partnership will expand upon existing programs to combat methane, including the Natural Gas STAR International Program, the Global Methane Initiative, and the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership.
In related news at the Climate Summit, State Department Secretary Kerry announced a new grant of $15 million to the World Bank to start a “carbon auction facility.” The facility will pay for every ton of methane which landfills, waste treatment facilities and livestock operations avoid emitting.
The Hill, UNEP, The White House, Statoil Press Release, International Business Times
World Bank Announces Half the World Supports a Carbon Price
On September 21, led by China and European Union (EU), 73 national and 11 regional governments and about 1,000 companies voiced support for setting a price on carbon emissions, announced the World Bank. Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank President, said, “Governments representing almost half of the world’s population and 52 percent of global GDP have thrown their weight behind a price on carbon as a necessary, if insufficient, solution to climate change and a step on the path to low carbon growth.” According to the World Bank, there are almost 40 countries and more than 20 states, cities and provinces with a carbon price already in effect or coming online soon. A recent CDP study showed 638 companies worldwide supported a carbon price, saying it offered business opportunities (see Climate Change News September 22). However, UN special envoy for climate change Mary Robinson said a carbon price could be “potentially unfair on the poorest,” by increasing the price of food and fuel. “We really need to understand the dimension of it,” she added.
Reuters, World Bank, The New Republic, List
Green Climate Fund Receives Infusion of Cash
On September 23 at the United Nations Summit on Climate, many countries made pledges to donate to the Green Climate Fund, which was set up by the United Nations (UN) in 2010 to funnel $100 billion in climate funding to developing nations every year starting in 2020. François Hollande, the president of France, made the largest donation, promising $1 billion to the Green Climate Fund. This matches a $1 billion pledge Germany made earlier this year in July. Many countries made smaller pledges – South Korea $100 million, Mexico $10 million, Switzerland $100 million, Denmark $70 million, Norway $33 million, Luxembourg $6.4 million, and the Czech Republic $5.5 million – for a combined total of $1.325 billion new donations announced at the Summit. Hollande told reporters, “We can’t just limit ourselves to words, expressions of regret and exercises in stock-taking.” There is a general consensus that the Green Climate Fund needs $10-15 billion by this December in order to be considered viable going forward. Currently, it has about $2.3 billion.
Responding to Climate Change, Oxfam, Green Climate Fund
$860 Million Rockefeller Brothers Fund to Divest from Fossil Fuels
On September 22, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced plans to begin divesting its $860 million fund from fossil fuel stocks, the latest act in a global movement to shift capital from fossil fuel extraction to renewable energy. Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and a trustee of the foundation, said, “There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet.” Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, added, “The action we are taking is symbolism, but it is important symbolism. We’re making a moral case, but also, increasingly, an economic case.” Participants in the movement have said their decisions are not just environmentally based, but increasingly investment-based as well, given growing uncertainty about the future of coal and other fossil fuels. Since the movement’s rise a few years ago, 180 institutions—philanthropies, pension funds, local governments and others—and hundreds of individual investors, have pledged to divest more than $50 billion in assets, according to Arabella Advisors. Even though the movement began on college campuses, movements for divestiture by these institutions has had mixed results. Harvard University's president, Drew Phillip Faust, said the university’s endowment is “a resource, not an instrument to impel social or political change.” However, Stanford University recently announced it would divest coal assets, and Yale University is examining how its investments affect climate change and how to avoid companies that don’t take “steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
The Washington Post, The New York Times, Philanthropy News Digest, Arabella Advisers Report
Largest Palm Oil Plantations Halting Deforestation to Conduct Carbon Emissions Study
On September 21, five of the world’s top palm oil producers announced an agreement to halt all forest clearance for a year, while a study is conducted to determine how their practices affect climate change, as well as other socioeconomic factors. The five largest producers of palm oil, Sime Darby, Asian Agri, IOI Corporation, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad and Musim Mas, made this decision to place a moratorium on forest clearing operations following a letter sent earlier this month by Green Central Capital Management. The letter had signatures from investors worth a cumulative $600 billion in assets, and threatened that palm oil would lose markets that have become concerned with deforestation if they do not take action on deforestation and climate change. The 12-month study will determine whether the forests cleared for palm oil plantations constitute High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests. Although the study will be funded by the five companies, forest ecologist and lead researcher Dr. John Raison claims it will be fully independent, saying, “[The study] will extend earlier HCS work to provide more reliable estimates of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emissions from both biomass and soils resulting from the establishment as well as on-going management of oil palm plantations.” Lucia von Reusner, Shareholder Advocate for Green Century Capital Management, said, “A unified approach towards protecting forests in the palm oil supply chain is absolutely critical as the market shifts rapidly away from deforestation and towards climate solutions.”
In related news, on September 23 at the United Nations Climate Summit, 40 companies, dozens of NGOs, several governments and indigenous peoples took a pledge to halve deforestation by 2020 and end it by 2030. The New York Declaration on Forests is a non-legally binding political agreement which, if fully implemented, would restore forest and croplands over an area greater than India, avoiding annual carbon dioxide emissions of 4.5 to 8.8 billion tons. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon commented, “The New York Declaration aims to reduce more climate pollution each year than the United States emits annually.”
Environmental Leader, Tree Hugger, Letter, United Nations
Global Carbon Report Shows Carbon Emissions Will Be at New High in 2014
On September 21, the Global Carbon Project released an annual update report of the global carbon budget and trends. The report, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows that global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities reached a new high in 2013, and will rise even higher in 2014. China, the United States, the European Union, and India released the most emissions in 2013, accounting for 58 percent of global emissions. Glen Peters, a scientist at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research who helped to collect the data, said, “You can no longer have some countries go first and others come in later, because there is no more time. It needs to be all hands on deck now.” Scientists have said that emissions need to peak in the next few years and then begin to decline in order for countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, an internationally agreed upon target. While emissions from developed counties have been decreasing in recent years, emissions from emerging economies and developing counties have been rising, in part due to construction of new coal-burning power plants. In 1990, about two-thirds of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions came from developed countries, whereas today that number is closer to one-third.
BBC, SCIENCE 2.0, The New York Times, Report
US Power Plants Emit More Carbon than Entire Economy of Japan, Russia or India
On September 18, the Environment America Research & Policy Center released a report titled America’s Dirtiest Power Plants, showing that US power plants produce more carbon emissions than the entire economies of any nation aside from China. The report says the 500 dirtiest power plants in the United States contributed about 6 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in 2011. The 50 dirtiest power plants alone were responsible for 30 percent of all power-sector carbon emissions. “It's time to stop ignoring our largest global warming polluter, and start a major transition to clean power,” announced Elizabeth Ouzts of the Environment America Research and Policy Center. The research was done by gathering emissions data from the Department of Energy’s fuel consumption figures, and using the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) estimates of the carbon content of each fuel source. According to the report, if the EPA’s Clean Power Plan is successfully implemented, it could eliminate as much carbon pollution as is created by the entire nation of Canada, who ranked as the 8th largest carbon emitter. “For too long, power plants and other major polluters have enjoyed a holiday from responsibility,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), calling for the country to embrace federal carbon pollution standards.
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Tech Times, Times of India, Press Release
Report Finds Cost of Wildfires Will Rise Due to Climate Change
On September 16, a report analyzing the wildfire and social cost of carbon was released through the Cost of Carbon Project, which is a joint project conducted by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). According to the report, wildfires burn 7 to 9 million acres each year in the United States, and are predicted to burn 50 to 100 percent more land by 2050, due to climate change effects. This additional burn area could cost the country up to $62.5 billion per year by 2050. Laurie Johnson, chief economist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), said, “Wildfires that already destroy millions of acres of forests and thousands of homes will cause much more damage if we don’t take strong steps to reduce the carbon pollution driving climate change.” The report says the US government currently spends $2 billion to $2.5 billion per year on wildfire suppression. However, report authors say the price of suppression is about 10 to 50 times less than its total cost, and when you factor in added costs such as the lost benefit of forests and the price of re-inhabiting burned areas, wildfires actually cost between $20 billion and $125 billion annually. The report urged the government and society to take action against climate change now. Laurie Johnson added, “It would be very clear that taking action now would give us a very, very good return… We’re losing time but not solutions to this grave threat, and we must act now.”
Huffington Post, The Hill, Report, Defense
Headlines
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1. European Union to Cut Greenhouse Gases 80 to 95 Percent by 2050
2. Hong Kong to Cut Greenhouse Gases 50 Percent by 2020
3. New York City to Cut Greenhouse Gases 80 Percent by 2050
4. California Aims for 1.5 Million Zero-Emissions Cars On the Road in Next Ten Years
5. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Urges Climate Change Action
6. Brazil Will Not Sign on to UN Deforestation Pledge
7. PepsiCo Signs Bicep-Ceres Pledge, Promises to Cut Greenhouse Gases From Fridges
8. California, Washington and British Columbia Voice Support for United Nations Climate Summit
9. Tom Steyer Spends $1 Million in Washington State Elections
10. Google Will Sever Ties with ALEC After Backlash Over Climate Change Views
11. Unions Taking Action on Climate Change
12. The Economist Ranks the All-Time Most Effective Greenhouse Gas Policies
13. Dutch to Spend $20 Billion Over 30 Years to Fight Sea Level Rise
EESI Releases its 2013 Annual Report
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