“That is my President!” I thought (with teary eyes) as President Obama slam-dunked BP and took America’s oil addiction to task. For a moving and forward-looking speech on U.S. energy policy, see http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Obama+Oval+Office+Speech&aq=f
Yet Politico’s Darren Samuelsohn said my heroe’s first Presidential speech from the Oval Office included, “Deadly Silence On Carbon Caps.” And he is absolutely right.
The problem is–from Environment Las Americas/Bolivia’s perspective–real heroes live in real political conditions. See http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38599.html. Thanks to the Right and the Left–Cap and Trade will not fly even a little bit like Superman. And Obama badly needs to put points on the game board. The sad part is that, in this respect, my heroe is also right because his Best Alternatives To A Negotiated Agreement (BATNAs) are weaklings. As a politician extraordinaire, President Obama understands that.
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June 16th, 2010
Environment Las Americas/Bolivia believes state-guided carbon markets are necessary to curtail climate change. So do China and India (as well as most of the rest of the world). Well, maybe most countries are interested in carbon markets as much for the efficiency as to save humanity, but we think that is ok, provided the emissions trading is fair. We believe in fair trade as oppossed to no trade (a la Bolivia) in carbon emissions. Here is the repost from Business Week:
China May Start State-Guided Carbon Market by 2014
May 28, 2010, 7:30 AM EDT.
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May 29th, 2010
Environment Las Americas/Bolivia believes Bolivia needs more realistic and attainable goals before Cancun (COP16).
Executive Director, Adam Zemans
Repost from http://pwccc.wordpress.com/:
People’s Voices Must be Heard in Climate Negotiations
Official UNFCCC Negotiating Text Ignores World People’s Conference Solutions
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May 27th, 2010
Environment Las Americas/Bolivia believes there is no time to suspend the Cancun (COP16) conference or fail there.
Adam Zemans, Executive Director
Repost: Evo Morales pide suspender la Cumbre del Cambio Climático de Cancún
23 – 05 – 10
La Paz, (EFE).-
http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/9/20100523/tsc-evo-morales-pide-suspender-la-cumbre-23e7ce8.html
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May 27th, 2010
If you want any climate change treaty, support President Obamba’s efforts to date, even as you hope for more. He needs us. And we need him. The article below shows part of the reason why (Although, Senator Spector’s departure, below, can be attributed to his orginally-Republican roots, perhaps, and hopefully his successor will be a climate change treaty supporter).
Repost below: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_el_se/us_obama_no_coattails
Obama endorsements don’t seem to help Democrats
AP – Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., climbs into his car as he leaves his election party after delivering his concession …
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May 19th, 2010
Environment Las Americas/Bolivia will post more details regarding the May 17, 2010 meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and President Evo Morales as they come in (the following in Spanish):
Repost: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=385321
Adam Zemans, Executive Director, Environment Las Americas/Bolivia
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May 17th, 2010
Repost from Climateprogress.org–a comparison of the Obama campaign proposals, just-released Kerry-Lieberman U.S. Senate American Power Act and the U.S. House Waxman-Markey bill:
http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/12/american-power-act-senate-bill-house-climate-bill-and-clean-energy-jobs-bill/
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May 15th, 2010
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May 11th, 2010
See http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-05/07/content_9819385.htm for news of the May 7th-9th conference. See also Environment Las Americas/Bolivia’s in-depth analysis of Chinese climate change policy at http://environmentbolivia.org/PDF/What_Price_Are_The_US_And_China_Willing_To_Pay.pdf
Adam Zemans
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May 8th, 2010
Tomorrow, Friday, May 7, 2010, Bolivian President Evo Morales will present the conclusions of The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth to the United Nations. The Final Conclusions of Working Group 16 (Action Strategies) of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth can be accessed by opening the “Read more” link below. See the Actions Strategies’ Schedule Protest Actions to be taken this year at the very bottom of Environment Las Americas/Bolivia’s article. Bolivia promises to be a thorn in the side of the Cancun climate change conference (COP16). Bolivia’s proposal for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth is located at: http://environmentbolivia.org/blog/2010/05/04/repost-proyecto-de-declaracion-universal-de-derechos-de-la-madre-tierra/
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May 6th, 2010
Repost: The Copenhagen Protocol
How China and India Sabotaged the UN Climate Summit
By Tobias Rapp, Christian Schwägerl and Gerald Traufetter
Foto: AFP/ Bundesregierung
Video: jkr
What really went on at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen? Secret recordings obtained by SPIEGEL reveal how China and India prevented an agreement on tackling climate change at the crucial meeting. The powerless Europeans were forced to look on as the agreement failed.
At some point his patience was at an end, as depleted as the oxygen in the small conference room. He could no longer keep still, not even for a second.
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May 6th, 2010
Estimado lector,
Environment Las Americas/Bolivia va a comentar sobre la declaración recortada abajo en los meses que vienen antes de la Cumbre de Cancún (COP16):
Preámbulo
Nosotros, los pueblos de la Tierra:
Considerando que todos somos parte de la Madre Tierra, una comunidad indivisible vital de seres interdependientes e interrelacionados con un destino común;
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May 4th, 2010
World tribunal would police climate ‘crimes’
Laura Guachalla
28 April 2010 | EN | ES | 中文
The Bolivian climate change conference was initiated by President Evo Morales.
Prensa Cumbre Climática
[COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA] Demands for a world tribunal with the power to punish climate ‘crimes’ were presented to the United Nations on Monday (26 April).
The Climate and Environmental Justice Tribunal emerged as a key proposal of the summit — the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth — held in Bolivia last week (19-22 April), said to have been attended by more than 31, 000 people (see Bolivian alternative climate conference begins).
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May 4th, 2010
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