GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017
GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017
US Retreats from International Cooperation & Environmental Protection
● Astronaut Kelly With a Message to Planet Earth Citizens
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US Raises Nuclear War Threat: Warnings of Catastrophe Internationally
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In 2017, the White House abandoned the environment and public health
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George Monbiot on Money-in-Politics: UK Version
Global Climate Action & United Nations (Minus the US)
International Cooperation
Framework Convention on Climate Change
- http://unfccc.int/2860.php
- https://cop23.unfccc.int/
- https://cop23.unfccc.int/cop23/global-climate-action-cop23-full-programme
- https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path
- https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together
United States only country to refuse climate change agreement
US Climate Science Special Report
Public Call/Science Comment Notice
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) seeks public comment on the Third Order Draft of Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4).
NCA4 Vol. II is a technical, scientific assessment of climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation across the United States. The assessment uses a risk-based framework in placing a strong emphasis on regional information, while also evaluating climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation on 17 national-level topics. Case studies are used to provide additional context and showcase community success stories.
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● Nobel Peace Prize Goes to ICAN
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Threats of War from the US President
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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons
Visit GreenPolicy's Associate, Strategic Demands
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US Departure from International Cooperation:
"Sovereignty", the New Administration's Buzzword
Trump's First Address at the UN - September 19, 2017
● StratDem / The US President's Talk at the United Nations
● A Nuclear Meme and StratDem Proposal to Limit First Use of Nuclear Weapons
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US President announces his policy toward environmental security:
Environmental consequences begin June 1, 2017
The International Climate Agreement goes forward without the US -- Nations around the world reject the US decision
The US will be judged, this day long will be remembered in world history
Climate News / Climate Focus, Climate Politics
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- Calif Governor Brown speaks of political reactions: The Rest of the World Is Against Trump / Governor Brown Statement on White House Paris Climate Agreement Announcement
- “This current departure from reality in Washington will be very short-lived, that I promise you,” Brown told POLITICO in an interview. “I’ve spoken with Republicans here in the Legislature, and they’re beginning to get very serious about climate action, so the momentum is all the other way. And I think Trump, paradoxically, is giving climate denial such a bad name that he’s actually building the very movement that he is [purporting] to undermine...”
Battle in the US Congress between the Climate Denial faction and Science Advocates
GreenPolicy360 and our associate Strategic Demands Advance New Definitions of National Security
Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s budget director:
“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward —
We’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”
- White House budget director Mick Mulvaney rejects climate as a security issue:
- “Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward – we’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.”
- Science? Enough with Science
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Priorities: Weapons or Health Care, Wars or Education, Conflicts or Environmental Security
Nations of the World Choose their Direction
Classic 'guns or butter' case study -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands: focusing on two 'big pictures' in 2017
1) The risks of nuclear weapons proliferation within a multi-national, fast-developing Cold War 2.0; and
2) The existential challenge of moving to renewable energy and new definitions of national security, even as the election of Donald Trump and appointment of Exxon chief Rex Tillerson to head of the US State Dept. portend fast-moving oil/gas/fossil fuel developments and 'pipeline geopolitics'.
On and off the record, US multinationals and the new US administration are negotiating with Russia over rights to the rapidly de-icing Arctic and the existing 'energy deals of the century' between Russia-China-Iran now loom large in an era of hostilities and entry onto the world stage of an unpredictable and temperamental US "Commander-in-Chief".