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NewsAnalysis: Obama’s Funny Numbers for Carbon Reductions

December 2nd, 2009

This week’s Sea Change Radio News Analysis comes from Tania Haldar Hart:

Last week’s Sea Change News Analysis covered the White House announcement of the President’s visit to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, where he will officially unveil US carbon reduction goals. Today, we focus on the story behind the emissions reductions data. The White House press release claimed a target of 17 percent reductions by 2020, and 83 percent reductions by 2050. Click to continue reading and listen to the show…

NewsAnalysis: Obama Is Showing Up in Copenhagen — But Will He Step Up to Climate Leadership?

November 25th, 2009

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This week’s Sea Change Radio News Analysis comes from Tania Haldar Hart:

In a promising turn of events, President Obama announced on Wednesday, November 25th, that he will participate in the UN’s Climate Conference in Copenhagen, next month. This gesture has resurrected the possibilities of bolder outcomes emerging from the upcoming deliberations. While at COP15 on December 9^th, he is expected to announce a provisional US emissions reduction target of 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Hopes were dashed earlier this month at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore when he and other world leaders concluded that there will not be a binding climate treaty coming out of Copenhagen.

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NewsAnalysis: A Tale of Two Treaties?

November 11th, 2009

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cop15_logo_img This week’s Sea Change Radio News Analysis comes from Tania Haldar Hart:

The conference to negotiate a new climate treaty is rapidly approaching — early December, in Copenhagen — and the Sea Change Correspondent will be there to cover it. The goal is to to come out of Copenhagen with a workable Climate treaty. But what this will look like is still up in the air. There’s debate over two possible treaties.

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How Everyday Folks World Wide View Climate Change

September 30th, 2009

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Following up on our coverage of World Wide Views on Global Warming in April, Sea Change returns to this event that gathered citizen opinions on climate change in more than 40 meetings around the world that just happened. Sea Change Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen attended the meeting at the Museum of Science in Boston. She and Co-Host Bill Baue also spoke with WWViews representatives worldwide, both before and after the event.

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Support Sea Change Radio to Cover COP15

September 23rd, 2009

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Sea Change Radio Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen has her bags packed and her microphone in hand to cover COP 15 — the global negotiations toward a new climate treaty — in Copenhagen this December. YOU listen to Sea Change, and YOU want to hear great coverage of this important event that will help determine whether humanity steps up to the challenge of the climate crisis.

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