Global Warming Is Here: Live Coverage of Climate Week 2014
The biggest climate protest in history kicked off a week of debate, disruption and aspiration in New York. Check here for the latest updates as U.S. President Barack Obama and more than 120 additional heads of state join business leaders like Apple CEO Tim Cook try to break the policy impasse.
9.22.14 | TOM RANDALL Live Stream: Climate Week NYC Opening DayThe Climate Group and CDP are bringing together CEOs from the world's top companies, civil society leaders and heads of sub-national governments to talk about how to move business toward a low-carbon economy.Watch it live...
9.22.14 | ALEX NUSSBAUM and ERIC ROSTONApple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Not Giving Up on Our Generation'
'The boomer generation, we have to look at ourselves deeply and ask ourselves: Are we going to be the first generation that leaves the next one worse off?' Cook said at the opening day of Climate Week. 'Do you want to be part of that club?'
9.22.14 | TOM RANDALLChina Surpasses EU in Per-Capita Pollution for First Time
Apple plans to power all of its data centers with renewable energy and is already one of the biggest producers in the world, Cook said. He sat for an interview with Christiana Figueres, head of the UN climate process, to mark the launch of a new report about big business and climate change.
You've heard this fact before: China is the biggest polluter of greenhouse gases in the world. It's typically followed by this qualifier: it's also the biggest, with 1.3 billion people, and the average person actually has a small carbon footprint.
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That excuse is having a tough time holding up under the rapid growth of China's middle class. China has now surpassed the EU in per-capita emissions, showing just how difficult it will be to bend the curve on climate change.
Chinese still pollute less than half as much per person as gasoline-chugging Americans, perhaps one reason President Xi Jinping chose to stay home during the UN Climate Summit in New York this week.Read more...
9.19.14 | TOM RANDALL User's Guide to the People's Climate March This WeekendWhile U.S. President Barack Obama and more than 100 other world leaders will meet in a summit devoted to climate change, the most tangible action on global warming this week may come from investors and companies.Read more...
The People's Climate March drew more than 310,000 people to New York this weekend, organizers said, tripling the original forecast. Demonstrators, including homeowners flooded by Hurricane Sandy, New York political leaders and indigenous people fighting oil companies in Latin America, chanted, sang and danced in an appeal to global leaders to act on climate change.
'Since the fossil fuel companies have money, we have to have something on our side, and that's people,' said Bill McKibben, the head of organizing group 350.org.Read more...
9.22.14 | STEPHEN MERELMANDe Blasio Promises to Reduce NYC Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 80%New York City is pledging to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, beginning with a plan to retrofit public and private buildings. Every municipal building that uses significant amounts of energy -- about 3,000 structures -- will be improved by 2025, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged.
The people are coming. Hundreds of thousands of protesters descended on Manhattan by bus, train and plane to rally against climate change in an event dubbed 'The People's Climate March.' Q: How can I avoid it? A: There is no avoiding climate change.Read more...
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