Joe Biden and Climate: Cause for Cautious Optimism Published: 3 December 2020 Analysis The victory of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, in the American presidential elections is the most important development in global climate policies since the Paris climate agreement was drafted in late 2015. Who steers the US climate agenda and how matters a great deal to the rest of the world, and not just because the US is currently the planet’s second-largest polluter in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. By Matěj Jungwirth
Interview on Smart Growth with Ralf Fuecks, Co-President of the Heinrich Boell Foundation Published: 14 August 2015 During his U.S. book tour in April 2015, we spoke with our Co-President, Ralf Fuecks, about the need for a global, smart green growth strategy, outlined in his new book Green Growth, Smart Growth – A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment.
Member State ministers want to assist developing countries with climate protection – but are waiting for the USA before they say how Published: 24 March 2014 Long-term aims are important for the consistency of policies in the area of climate protection, but the absence of medium-range aims is now holding back progress in the international negotiations on a new post-Kyoto agreement. Had Barack Obama made it to the White House just a few months earlier than he did, the negotiations as a whole might be much further along. On Monday, Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursík told a meeting of the European Council of Member State environment ministers that the impassiveness of the American position is preventing forward movement. Climate change and the EU position on the Copenhagen conference were the main topics of the meeting.
Road to Copenhagen: The EU and the US – Driving Forces for a Succesful Post 2012 Agreement? Published: 4 October 2009 The conference organised by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Ministry of Environment provided good opportunity for exchange and debate among the climate diplomats, government officials, experts, business and NGOs representatives and interested public (over 160 participants). The main aim of the conference, the biggest of its kind in the new EU member states this year, was to assess where the EU, USA and other key players stay shortly before the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP 15) this December. Far beyond that, three thematic workshops in the afternoon provided for an intensive expert discussions on the issues of the cost of the unabated Climate change, ways how to finance the measures against it and last but not least the economic opportunities stemming from the „green investments“ and mitigation measures.
