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Cop27 is in Egypt next year … but will anyone be allowed to protest?
Concern is growing over plans to host a UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh next year, in what will be a crucial summit if the world is to limit global heating to 1.5C…
Canada and Mexico pose obstacle to Biden’s union-built electric vehicle plans
President Joe Biden has a difficult task today handling opposition from Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners, to his push to promote U.S. manufacturing of electric vehicles…
Can America prevent a global warming cold war?
At the 11th hour of climate negotiations in Scotland last week, the U.S. and China released a “Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s” outlining increased cooperation on a wide range of climate and clean energy topics…
PAUL BLEDSOE DISCUSSES COP26
CGTN AMERICA | NOveMBER 3, 2021
Cop27 is in Egypt next year … but will anyone be allowed to protest?
Concern is growing over plans to host a UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh next year, in what will be a crucial summit if the world is to limit global heating to 1.5C…
Canada and Mexico pose obstacle to Biden’s union-built electric vehicle plans
President Joe Biden has a difficult task today handling opposition from Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners, to his push to promote U.S. manufacturing of electric vehicles…
Can America prevent a global warming cold war?
At the 11th hour of climate negotiations in Scotland last week, the U.S. and China released a “Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s” outlining increased cooperation on a wide range of climate and clean energy topics…
Democrats eye curbs on fossil fuel exports as price fix
Congressional Democrats look increasingly interested in supporting a curb on U.S. oil, coal, and natural gas exports as a means of lowering energy prices at home…
Mung beans, bunnies and the Muppets: PM’s green rhetoric ‘insulting and divisive’
Boris Johnson took the stage at Glasgow as the Cop26 summit neared its conclusion last Wednesday, aiming to galvanise the conference into a deal that would stave off climate breakdown….
How Kerry’s announced US-China climate agreement falls short
The new agreement between the U.S. and China to collaborate on curbing climate change by enhancing action reducing emissions this decade lacks concrete pledges, emissions targets, or timeframes…
How to Limit Temperature Increases in the Very Near Term
If the years of devastating droughts, floods, heat waves and wildfires since the Paris climate agreement was adopted have taught us anything, it’s that we have underestimated the pace of extreme, destabilizing climate change…
Unlocking the Transition: Biden, Congress aim to fill gap from clean electricity plan’s demise
The collapse of a controversial plan to prod utilities to rapidly decarbonize has scrambled the Biden administration’s blueprint for slashing power sector emissions…
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Paul Bledsoe is a former Clinton White House, US Senate, and Interior Department official, and a leading political and policy expert whose writing has regularly appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and other leading outlets.
Paul is Strategic Advisor at the Progressive Policy Institute, a top center-left think tank in Washington, and a Professional Lecturer at American University’s Center for Environmental Policy. He is also President of Bledsoe & Associates, LLC, a strategic public policy firm specializing in tax policy, energy, natural resources and climate change.
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