In my last post, here, I raised what I considered a singularly-critical question arising from the recently-concluded COP28: Why did the recently-concluded 28th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC…
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Was it the ‘Beginning of the End’? COP28 & the Aspirational Fossil Fuel Phase Out
I fervently hoped to be proven wrong. In a blog post on Nov. 30, two days before my arrival in Dubai, I had predicted that the 28th Conference of the…
New and Young Voters: Do not Sit It Out
I direct myself to new and young eligible voters in the United States, though I speak today from Dubai—a city-state that is suffused right now with a toxic brew of…
3rd CPR Initiative Hearing on Climate Action
CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Santa Barbara, California on January 25, 2024. Co-hosted by the Community Environmental Council.
Breathless in Dubai
The relevant authorities here declared yesterday to be “COP28 Health Day.” An explanation is warranted. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC, or “Framework Convention”) was produced at the…
A Debacle Brewing in Dubai
We are sleepwalking towards catastrophe no longer. . . . Instead, we are now sprinting toward it, eyes wide open.
Time to “sit up and take notice”
James Hansen warns of global warming in the pipeline The renowned climate scientist James E. Hansen, along with a slew of colleagues, have gone and done it again. Publication yesterday…
Watch the Recording: CPR Initiative’s Second Public Hearing on Climate Action
Held on September 29, 2023 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Co-hosted by CPR Initiative, the Environmental Law Program at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law, and the Sierra Club of Hawai’i.
“Let Us Bend the Arc of History”
Joe Biden, September 19, 2023 at the UN General Assembly
University of Pennsylvania Public Lecture
September 20, 2023 | 12PM to 1PM
Community Climate Action Meeting, Honolulu
September 26, 2023 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Church of the Crossroads, Honolulu, Hawai’i
People’s Hearing on Climate Action
CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 29, 2023. Co-hosted by the Environmental Law Program at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law, and the Sierra Club of Hawai’i.