GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015
Eyes on the Future
December 12, 2015: International Climate Agreement Reached
- 195 Countries Sign On to the New Agreement
- Links to GreenPolicy360 Reports
GreenPolicy's INDC Global List & Updates on Individual Country Climate Action Plans
Nationally determined INDCs | resilient | renewable | clean energy | climate plans
- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director
♦ Climate Action National Plans/INDCs
♦ Which Countries Are Doing the Most?
♦ Eleven Countries that are Leading the Shift to Renewable Energy
- #climateaction -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/climateaction?src=hash
- #climatechange -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatechange?src=hash
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- #ParisAgreement -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/ParisAgreement?src=hash
- #INDCs -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash
- #IPCCC -- https://twitter.com/hashtag/ipccc?src=hash
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Looking back at 2015, Green Progress and GOP Buffoonery
Washington Post editorial, January 3, 2016
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U.S. Senate Republicans Say 'No' to Paris Climate Accord / GOP On Lockdown
- Via the New Republic "The only remaining global outlier — the only major political party that denies climate science and opposes even the effort to reach a climate deal — is here in the U.S.: the Republican Party ..."
- "Republicans attempt to derail the climate talks" / Via The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2015
- "Obama is paving the way for success in Paris": US Climate Politics / Via Grist
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U.S. Congress/Science Committee News (Not Good News)
Lamar Smith, Chair of Science Com't Accusing Scientists (Video)
- Letter to Science Committee re: integrity
- More from American science organizations
- Science Orgs respond to attacks by Science Committee
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Nationally determined climate plans | resilient | renewable | clean energy
Visit GreenPolicy's Int'l List of Countries and Climate Plans
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http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/
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UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"
Christiana Figueres @CFigueres #UNFCCC
- Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Nov 15: Will not stop -- Must contine
- Figueres - REDDIT AMA
UN Climate Action @UNFCCC
- Oct 19
- Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations
- http://bit.ly/1OObz76
- #ADP2
- #ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!
- pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015
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Vatican announcement of a first "Eco-encyclical"
Catholic Pontiff Speaks of an 'Integral Ecology'
From the first Catholic pope to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the environment and wildlife
Pope Francis poised to weigh in on climate change with major document
Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Climate Change
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"Racing Extinction" - The Movie
“We’re not making a movie, we’re starting a movement. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...
to live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward.”
Racing Extinction
Racing Extinction ○ #RacingExtinction @RacingXtinction
“I told the crew, 'We’re not making a movie – we’re starting a movement'. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...
and hopefully live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward...”
- Large (charismatic) vs. Small Species
- In the Smallest Creatures
- Updates
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Planet Labs / New Space
Planet Labs Platform Beta to Advance Sustainable Development Goals
Planet Labs / Updates
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
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California out in front modeling and sharing green best practices
Here come the 'EV Corridors' and Solar-Charging Stations -- New Motto, More Sun, Less Exxon
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- 'Going Green'
- 'Going Green'
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May 2015, New International Media Network to share climate change news
“Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity is currently facing and requires new ways of collaborating across geographic as well as political boundaries.”
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Astronaut Gerst --- 'Planet Citizen' Video
- OCO-2 reports most detailed CO2 measurements
- Take a look at the UN Climate Change Newsroom
- The World Bank's point of view re climate change
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DSCOVR/EPIC 'News from a Million Miles'
Visit EarthPOV for DSCOVR/EPIC News
● VR -- The "Big Picture" -- Earth ●
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DSCOVR with EPIC imaging goes LIVE! --- "Beautiful reminder that we need to protect the only planet we have"
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Atmospheric Science
Studying the "Thin Blue Layer"
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2
- OCO-2 / Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission
I am OCO-2 -- reporting home Climate deniers blame global warming on nature. This NASA data begs to differ
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Earth atmosphere emission data begins to be made available -- Sept 2015
CO2 Virtual Science Data Environment / GOSAT --- AQUA --- OCO-2 --- http://tccon.ornl.gov/
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Monitoring Earth's Essential Systems
Earth Right Now: Briefing @NASA
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http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/
http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/
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Earth Science Research from Space
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