New EIA Report on Energy/Carbon Dioxide Emissions

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.The U.S. Energy Information Agency released its latest report on energy trends, International Energy Outlook 2010, yesterday, and several aspects of the analysis are extremely foreboding from the perspective of climate change: Under a business as usual scenario, world energy consumption is projected [...]

Implications of Copenhagen Pledges

There is an excellent new potential reading on the Copenhagen Accord for climate change law and policy classes in a recent issue of Nature, Rogelj & Meinshausen, Copenhagen Pledges are Paltry, 464 Nature 1126-28 (2010) (subscription required). The authors analyze the likely implications of the pledges made by UNFCCC parties under the Copenhagen Accord. Among [...]