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The Garuda Clan is the clan of birds, and one of the eight sura clans. Their King is Garuda, but since he is currently incapacited due to an effect of the Power of the Name, his son Maruna has temporary authority to command the clan's suras.
The former King, Garuda, at some point entered in an alliance with the Gandharva and Yaksha clans, probably on Gandharva's input. In time, Garuda became best friends with the kings of those clans and Visnu. However, his three children had to be separated in order to hide the Power of the Name. These circumstances prevented them from being raised together, and each was sent to one of Garuda's friends. Maruna was trained by Gandharva (presumably on Carte), Yuta by Shuri on Isholy, and Kalavinka by Visnu on Willarv. It's unknown what was Vinata's opinion on the matter.
About 75 years ago, many of the strongest nastikas of this clan had already died, leaving Vinata in the position of second strongest despite a huge difference in strength between her and her husband.
By N0, Vinata died and Garuda fell into a coma, making Akasha the second strongest in the clan.[1] Maruna was given temporary authority over the clan and started looking for his lost siblings. The clan was left in a dire situation, but the Gandharva clan considered taking refuge in the Garuda Stronghold after an attack.
Currently, a group of Garuda, Gandharva and Yaksha Suras are surrounding Rindhallow under Maruna's command.
They take the form of various species of birds, although only Maruna's sura form and those of some other suras in lower ranks were shown.
Their special characteristic is that their transcendental skills change the color of the sky; for example, Maruna's skills turn the sky red, and Samphati's turn the sky yellow. They also have excellent vision, and that's the reason most inferior Garuda suras and Halfs are hunted for their eyes. They can move and fly fast.
Their regeneration speed is considerably slow compared to other clans.[2]
PoliticsEditRavana in the finite, Garuda is the last stand for the clan to keep its position; once he dies, it would be the end of the clan. Currently, Maruna has the authority to command the clan's suras instead of a nastika, because apparently, since Vinata's death, there are no strong nastikas to take over for the king, and the last remaining nastikas follow Maruna due to his resemblance to his father and his strength. The second-strongest nastika in the clan (as of Season 2) is Akasha, but there is a great gap in power between her and Garuda; Akasha is waiting until Garuda's death before she makes her move to take his position as King.[3]
The Garuda clan formed an alliance with the Gandharva and Yaksha clans, mostly because their kings were friends. To date, the alliance remains but has started to waver, since only one of the three kings remains active. Nevertheless, Maruna is supported by Yaksha and Gandharva suras in the human realm.


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A recent Cloud Computing survey of over 10,500 participants from 88 countries, highlighted the fact that Global NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) have similar reasons to other industries, for why they have or have not adopted Cloud Computing, and NGOs may in fact be taking the lead in adopting this new technology, with 90% of respondents worldwide indicating they are using Cloud Computing.
Why should other industries care? Generally NGO's…
- Are stretched thin on resources
- Have smaller IT budgets
- Cannot afford a "Redo" on any IT mistake
Sound familiar? Granted, outside of core IT and business applications like HR, CRM, accounting/financial management, social collaboration, etc., most, if not all industries unique needs do not align with NGOs. However, when considering any new technology, there is always value in gaining insight into what others perceive as advantages or deterrents for that technology.
The highlights from this TechSoup Global study, were that Simplified Administration, Rapid Deployment, and improved Costs, were identified as the Primary Advantages of Cloud Computing. While Lack of Knowledge, was identified as the Primary Barrier. Also, as in other studies, Costs and Data Security, were listed both as an Advantage, as well as a Deterrent, highlighting potential variances by solution or provider.
Reported Major Advantages
Reported Major Deterrents
Examples of other (industry neutral) Cloud Computing survey findings and introductions can be found via…
- North Bridge 2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey results
- What IT & Business Managers Want in Cloud Computing (blog that references multiple surveys)
- Cloud Benefits 101: What's In It For You
- Morgan Stanley Cloud Computing Blue Paper.
Or, more in-depth findings for NGOs can be found in the Full 2012 Global Cloud NGO Computing Survey Results by TechSoup Global.

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Today marks my grandmother's fourth year death anniversary. This article is dedicated to her, I can't visit her where she laid, and I believe through this page, I am still able to express how I love her. She who also endured poor living, born with peddling until she was old. I was incapacitated to help her leave peddling because I was still studying, wishing someday I may help her just stay at home and rest. I did it in few years, but due to her dotage, she left us. I just wish we were able to give her comfort. She bequeathed us the behavior of being humble and being good to our parents, she bestowed and left us the grinding stone or gilingan which we currently use. She bequeathed us love.
We miss her, we love you nanay ganda!


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Hey everyone! Jay just let us know that the date has changed for the TOM's Benefit show he's playing! That means the date info on THIS POST is wrong.
Jay said the date had to be changed because of a shipping mix-up with the shoes… The event has been rescheduled to Saturday, July 30, 2011. The rest of the info is still the same: http://www.resproj.com/?p=1118
Hope you can make it out!


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Bear with me while I rant awhile. I'm use to being treated bad at Walmart. Its Walmart they are known for that. I once waited 25 minutes for someone to help me at the site to store department. I finally gave up and left. The exact same thing happened when I wanted to have paint mixed and employees walked past me and never once asked me if I needed help. I flagged down two people and were told that wasn't their department. I gave up and went to Lowe's.
But its spreading, apparently businesses have so much business that they don't care to be nice to the people giving them money. Yesterday It was one business right after another.
I took Katniss to get fixed. When I made the appointment they said it would be 75.00. When I picked her up the total was 112. But the kicker was 1. They don't take checks due to the large amount of bad checks. 2. They add 3% on top of your total if you use your debit/credit card. I was told none of this. I NEVER have cash. It just so happened that I had enough yesterday to cover the cost of the visit. I wouldn't have complained about the 112. As long as I knew that in advance and knew that I needed it in cash. Is it so hard to let a person know this when they make the appointment, or even when they are dropping the pet off so they can have time to run to the bank.
I mentioned I had cash. Greg pretty much only uses cash and he takes all his change and puts it in a container. When the container is full we usually roll it and cash it in for "real money" I noticed last time I was there that my bank had a change machine in the lobby. So I volunteer to take it there instead of taking the time to roll it. When I'm done it gives me a receipt and I take it to the counter. They charged me a 5% fee to use the machine. They did nothing except take the receipt and give me cash. I could see charging extra if they did something. But, it was me that sat there for 20 minutes waiting for it to finish.
As if that wasn't bad enough, I was looking at houses closer to my work. I am beyond tired of leaving at 7 and returning at 7. Emmy gets no time to just be a kid. When she gets home it's basically eat, bath and bed. Occasionally she walks Westley. Greg's criteria are big enough for us to spread out, not so close to neighbors that the drums would cause someone to call the police on us, and he'd love move in ready. I'd prefer one that needs a little bit of work if that means we get it cheaper. But I still say he paid 20 thousand too much for his house. The house I found had a HUGE deck and a decent yard and no close neighbors. It did need some work and I was ok with that. I got him to agree to look at it. This weekend is the last weekend we have semi free (he has practice) until November, so it was now or then. I called the agent and she said (in a snotty voice) "I require you to make an appointment with me 2-3 weeks in advance. I have tickets to a football game this weekend and I won't be able to show you the house. I guess I could call around and see if someone would be willing to show it to you. But It would be better for me if we could make an appointment for a few weeks. I said we have band competitions every Saturday until November there is no way. She said what about during the week. I said nope we have practice until 6 everyday and then we'd have to drive back here which is in a different town. She said Well I'd have to drive from a different town too what's the big deal. Hmmm ok the big deal is obviously you aren't interested in selling this house because you've pissed me off. A better way of handling this situation is to say, "I'll be out of town this weekend, but I'd be happy to ask around to see if someone else can show it to you. I'm at the point right now that I wouldn't buy a house from her if it was a mansion for 2 dollars.
On a side note. Katniss was doing well last night she is obviously sore, but she climbed the cat tree and sat at the top. I tried to tell her that the dr said no climbing or jumping but she didn't listen to me.


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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Say a Little Prayer for Em
I am still working on my summer schedule. I didn't realize I had already made so many commitments.
My sweet girl is getting her tonsils out Tuesday morning.
She has been so tired and sick for the past few months. As much as I hate the thought of her having surgery...I know she will feel so much better.
This week I am finishing up my studio cleaning.
Looking forward to art journaling, doodling and working on some pieces for customers.
What creative projects are you working on this week??? Please share!!
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Adding her to my prayer list, dear one. So glad you all had a good time at the wedding.ReplyDelete
Aww, I'll be saying prayers for Em. It's never easy to face that kind of thing.ReplyDelete
Sending positive vibes and prayers that Em will have a quick recovery.ReplyDelete
Hello you!My son has to get his out too but i am terrified Leslie ...general anasthetics scare me...but she will be fine...sounds as though you had a lovely weekend too..yay...take care xxxReplyDelete
Awe, first of all, MUCH love and luck to Em - I know she will be happier in the end, by still a hard time for Mama! Good luck on your week - I am doing something different this week - on canvas fabric! It will be interesting, wish me luck ;) xoxoReplyDelete
I appreciate your thoughts and ideas...they inspire me!! I will be visiting you soon. Have a CREATIVE day!!


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What does a Top Network Marketing Product Company look like? When you begin looking at any potential network marketing opportunity, whether online or off-line… What exactly should you look for?
If you can pull all the pieces of this puzzle together what you'll have is a legitimate business opportunity well suited to helping you create long term residual income. After all, this is what the true standard for success is in network marketing is… long term residual income.
Network marketing success is NOT about becoming rich overnight or about effortlessly creating wealth for yourself. However, the principle of true network marketing and long term residual income is founded on the financial hopes and dreams of people just like you and me. So, it's easy to understand where some slight confusion can cloud proper judgment.
With this in mind, let's layout some important characteristics for potential top network marketing product company that can truly help make your financial hopes and dreams a reality…
There is first and foremost, an important distinction to make between creating highly leveraged income and just plain income. You may be tempted to think, "Hey, income is income…One is just as good as the other, right?!?" Unfortunately, no… One is NOT just as good as the other.
Many opportunities that claim to offer the financial freedom of true network marketing only amount to "flash in the pan" income generation. Although you may earn large checks quickly, these "flash in the pan" companies come and go just as quickly.
The real power of network marketing lies in highly leveraged income generation. Here's what I mean…
If you decided to quit your day job right now most likely you'd also stop being paid. That's not very leveraged at all. What if you decided to quit and your boss said, "Hey, you know, you did such a great job when you started last year that I've decided to just keep on paying you!" This is the power of true network marketing.
So, here are the pieces to that very valuable puzzle…
You'll only want to invest your time and energy into a company that has strong finances and strong management. After all, how can a company help you make money when they aren't making money themselves. It would be equally difficult looking for direction from a business that could use some help in that department themselves.
Your top network marketing product company of choice should also have a unique and consumable product. The fewer places people can go to obtain your product other than you and your company the better. Simple supply and demand. Also, having a consumable product means that there has to be a need for customers to replace the supplies they purchase from you on a regular basis. The more regular the basis, the better.
Your company should also offer little or no risk for prospective business builders. This reduced risk should be present in the form of low entry/enrollment fees associated with joining the organization. Also, reduced individual risk by company supported guarantees for customer satisfaction or "risk free" product trials is a must have.
The final piece to the top network marketing product company puzzle has to do with keeping your down line happy and productive once you have them on your team. Low personal production requirements does a great job of helping you to accomplishing this task. Low personal production requirements means your company is helping you to grow your business by making it as easy as possible for associates to generate income for their efforts.
When combined, all these pieces of the puzzle form the perfect picture for creating long term residual income.


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Goats as Pets
Many people keep goats as pets instead of a cat or a dog. These area usually pygmy goats or dwarf goats. These are the goats usually found in a petting zoo because they are so friendly. Before you do get a goat as a pet, you do have to know what to expect. You may have to consult the bylaws of your city or town to see if you are allowed to have such a pet. These are also herd animals and do not do well on their own. Therefore, you should perhaps have two goats or another animal as a pet with which the goat is compatible.
Having a goat as a pet does not mean it will curl up at your feet as you watch TV. This is an outside animal and if you keep it indoors, you will certainly notice it chewing on the furniture. You need to have a pen to confine it to a certain area and a warm house or barn for it to sleep at night, especially in the colder months. Goats eat three times a day with food consisting of plant material. You can also supplement the diet with hay and alfalfa. Water is especially important as goats do drink a lot of water.
The kind of food you need for your goat depends on its age. If you get a goat at a very young age, you may have to bottle feed it until it learns to eat on its own, which is usually at 3 –4 months. Adult goats usually eat hay, but they can be fed grain in the winter. Since goats can get very sick if they eat too much grain, you should give them less than a pound a day. Horse grain and horse feed should be avoided. You can feed your goat baking soda too. This cuts down on the rumen activity.
Like all pets, goats need to see the vet on a regular basis for checkups. They also need to be vaccinated against various types of diseases. Adults should be dewormed on a regular basis and have their hoofs trimmed once every six months.


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My grandmother Elizabeth, Libby for short, enjoyed traveling—even if it was just a Sunday drive sitting next to the love of her life, my Grandpa Paul. After they retired, the drives turned into longer RV versions.
I have a memory of a letter from her that she wrote while staying in Grand Tetons National Park. She described the feeling of standing among the jagged mountain peaks that climb doggedly to the sky over 7,000 feet from the valley floor.
I'm pleased to say that I relived that feeling today. And I'm even happier to say she was right. The Grand Tetons are beyond breathtaking. But it wasn't enough to drive right up to the base of mountains like she and grandpa did; we had to get into them. So with bear spray and plenty of water, we hiked up to an emerald oval named Lake Phelps.
Once we arrived, our daughter claimed she had to put her feet in the icy water. So it was with utter surprise and a shriek (from me) when a wild brown thing splashed by, giving us all a scare. A fish the size of my arm? Not exactly. It was an otter—one who, we later joked, kissed her toes.


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BEFORE Rehab
AFTER Rehab
Day by day, slowly we are reconstructing the town and times
of Valles Mines, one of the earliest villages of the Lead Belt in Southeast Missouri.
Actual physical artifacts are brought to us by former residents and their family members
who come from all over the world. Who would ever have suspected that they would someday return
and return to bring us their stories...
The Beginning: Here in the History Museum of the old village of Valles Mines, things happen a little differently.
One day we left the front door open while sweeping. We had just hung our first historic picture on
the wall. A former village resident stopped in and, seeing the picture, mentioned they had a picture
of the building that used to stand next door. In the year that followed, this scene repeated itself
over and over. Soon we had reconstructed a pretty good picture of the old days of Valles Mines.
So we grew and we had to move next door into the old white (shown above) building to house all the photos and
memorabilia people had been so kind as to give us. Turns out, that wasn't just the old white building next door.
While repairing the cedar siding we found the old building was actually an old log cabin underneath, the original
settlement house, built for Francois Valle and
his new bride, Marianne Billeron. If you look very closely at the photo above (right hand side of the front porch),
you can see where the siding has been removed and old log cabin has been allowed to show through. Come visit, it looks
a lot better up close (14115 Valles Mines School Road, Valles Mines, Missouri 63087).
For centuries people have come into contact with Valles' Mines, lived there,
mined there, passed through, died there, or descended from those who did.
They number well into the thousands, scattered all over the world now.
The Lost History Museum has made it its Mission to find out where everyone went,
contact them, receive their contacts, or even bring them back home.
Valle did more than carry lead back to Ste. Genevieve over the French
Village Road. He started a subculture of civilization that survives
even today. If you know someone interested, bring them to town and come
by the Museum. We welcome your company!
To email us, click here
The Lost History Museum preserves and displays local artifacts from Valles Mines, one of
Missouri's oldest settlements. Tours by appointment (573-631-6875). Please call ahead
as our hours vary. Walk down mainstreet of this
ghost town and visit the general store, payroll office, smelter,
furnace tender's cabin, or other historic sites.
The museum itself is housed
in the 1749 settlement house of Francois Vallee. Inside is an
extensive collection of photos, miniatures, and primitives from
a mining mining town that has come back again and again over the centuries*.
* From 1725-1974 all the zinc production in our region from the Potosi-Eminence
Mineralization came from Valles Mines. About half came from the Big Lode Mine,
closed before 1898.
"In 1780 great great great great Uncle Ferdinand
was taken by Indians as a child. I hope someday we find your long lost
cousins. And for that matter, whatever happened to Marguerite Valle? "
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If you are sitting here, reading this piece then the odds are that you have a storage problem. It is either here or it is on the horizon.
You need to get yourself some storage, and not the kind that you can get by renting a U-Haul and paying the deposit on the storage place down the highway. You have a storage issue that can only be solved by getting yourself some external memory for your computer.
Why would I need to get external memory?
This is a solid question with which to start. There are a few reasons you may want to have external memory on hand:
You need to be able to move your files, especially your large files, with ease and without having to email them.
You think that your computer is going to be making its way to electronics heaven soon, and you do not want to suffer the heartbreak of losing all of your files on the day that it crashes.
Your files are taking up so much room that you are sure that they will soon cause you to experience a loss of performance from your machine because of the extra files on its hard drive. Or you may even already be seeing your system respond more slowly than you'd like.
You have multiple PCs in your house on which you want to use the same files -- for example, the songs in your iTunes library -- but don't want to store them on every machine.
You want to keep your files private and away from the prying eyes of the other people who use your computers. After all, your eight-year-old child doesn't really need access to your clients' files, does he?
There are certainly other reasons, but those are some of the most common. If you see your situation on that list (and you may have more than one of these issues in your life), you have a good reason to get yourself some kind of external memory storage to keep your files safe. What kind of choices do you have for this?
You actually have a surprising number of choices for your "mode of memory," so in order to keep you sane, let's go down each of the options and talk about what is good and what is bad about it.
Next: First Three Options >>
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The latest global climate negotiations just finished. Here's what happened.December 17, 2018
The latest round of global climate negotiations just concluded in the coal city of Katowice, Poland. This was the 24th meeting of the "conference of the parties" (COP) to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change — and the most important meeting since COP 21, the 2015 Paris agreement.
With the mechanics of the Paris agreement now largely fleshed out, country implementation remains the most important issue. As Nigel Purvis, chief executive of Climate Advisers, noted: "The problem is not the Paris agreement, which is the best climate pact ever negotiated; rather the problem is inadequate political will in capitals around the world." In the coming months and years, the hard part will be implementation and raising ambition.
Press Release: Reactions to the Katowice Declaration on Forests for the ClimateDecember 12, 2018
Katowice, Poland. On December 12th, The Polish presidency of the 24th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) will announce The Ministerial Katowice Declaration on Forests for the Climate. The declaration is expected to be endorsed by many developed and developing nations. Under the declaration, governments pledge to accelerate actions to protect and restore forests, which they describe collectively as a "key component to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement" and as producing many additional benefits. Those benefits include enhancing water security, improving air quality, protecting human health, empowering indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities, and safeguarding biodiversity and critical natural habitat.
Nigel Purvis, CEO of Climate Advisers and former senior U.S. climate negotiator in the Clinton and Bush administrations, said "The Katowice declaration on forests is helpful but insufficient. While Poland deserves credit for raising the visibility of forests in global climate talks, the world needs action." Purvis noted that the latest scientific findings indicate that forests and other natural climate solutions could provide at least thirty percent of needed climate action now. Yet, Purvis said, "natural climate solutions tend to receive a trivial amount of political attention and climate funding." Purvis noted that "many governments endorsed the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests, which set the goal of cutting deforestation in half by 2020 and yet today deforestation rates are actually rising." Purvis also cautioned that "forests and other natural climate solutions should not be seen as reason for delaying rapid decarbonization of the industrial economy, including moving beyond coal." He emphasized, "Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement requires rapid progress on both forests and coal."
Peter Graham, Managing Director of Climate Advisers' forest and land practice group and a former top Canadian climate negotiator on forests, called the Katowice declaration "a step forward." He noted, however, that "saving forests is a race against time that will require many steps taken quickly." Graham noted that the Katowice declaration begins to respond to calls by NGOs and scientists issued at the Global Climate Action Summit in California this past September. At that time, a diverse coalition of civil society groups called on governments to make natural climate solutions, including forests, represent 30% of climate action by 2030. That statement from civil society can be found here. Today, Graham said, "endorsers of the Katowice declaration on forests should work together to turn their words into action in 2019, including at the climate summit hosted by UN Secretary General Guterres in September. Now is the time for concrete measures."
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This group coined 'carbon bubble.' Its influence is growingDecember 11, 2018
For about a decade, Carbon Tracker has been climbing out of obscurity to become one of the most influential climate change research organizations in the world, influencing government policies, banking rules and business decisions.
Gabriel Thoumi of Climate Advisers uses the Carbon Tracker research in his work and cites the group's use of the same vernacular as people making decisions about corporate finances. "[It] puts these risks in terms that these [chief financial officers] use themselves," he said.
Trump Team Pushes Fossil Fuels at Climate Talks. Protests Erupt, but Allies Emerge, Too.December 10, 2018
In the meantime, State Department negotiators have continued to press countries like China and India on issues like adopting stricter transparency measures — a delicate task, some analysts say, given the Trump administration's public stance on the agreement.
"I think the U.S. doesn't have a huge amount of direct influence right now because of President Trump's position," said Nigel Purvis, a top environmental negotiator under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and the chief executive of Climate Advisers, a consulting firm.
"But the U.S. negotiators are highly respected and experienced, and people understand that the perspectives they have on requiring more transparency from China, India and others are the same perspectives that any future administration would likely have," he added. "So countries are still taking them seriously."
Forests are the Forgotten Climate Solution, Experts SaySeptember 11, 2018
Can protecting forests help save the planet? Environmentalists are hoping the answer is yes.
"To meet the 30 percent collective goal, those countries that can, must help to mobilise finance, including from private sector, for forest, food, and lands mitigation actions of developing countries", says Peter Graham, the managing director of policy and research at Climate Advisers.
Nigel Purvis, the former US chief negotiator on climate and now the CEO of Climate Advisers says this action will be everything from reforestation to creating more sustainable agriculture to cutting back on meat consumption.
"It's not a one size fits all [approach]", he says.
He adds that the 30 percent target was negotiated by the stakeholders attending the summit and that it's consistent with targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
To track progress, Climate Advisers is recommending that each stakeholder report their progress under the Paris Agreement's Nationally Determined Contributions. Only a third of the 165 member countries under the agreement have quantified land sector targets—a lack of action the summit hopes to rectify.
A different kind of climate summit comes to San FranciscoSeptember 11, 2018
It will involve trillions of dollars of pledges for spending on cleaner energy and getting out of investments in heat-trapping fossil fuels, according to officials involved. And it will include a newer way of fighting climate change by emphasizing more climate-friendly land use, food production, and diets, along with massive increases in forests — something one expert called ''the forgotten climate solution.'' Cities, states, businesses, and charitable foundations are all going to get in the act.
And when you are talking about shifting trillions of dollars to finance initiatives, the private sector needs to get involved and that's happening, said Nigel Purvis, chief executive officer of the non-profit Climate Advisers and a former climate negotiator in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
''This is the climate action summit, emphasis on the action,'' Purvis said. ''Despite the lack of leadership from Washington, it's really about action.''
They Defied Trump on Climate Change. Now, It's Their Moment of Truth.September 11, 2018
A big test of that antidote will be whether America's states, cities and companies put forward meaningful new steps to cut emissions — and whether that, in turn, helps to persuade local leaders in other countries to ratchet up their own efforts on climate change.
"There's a real push to make sure that this We Are Still In movement becomes something more than just a symbolic exercise," said Gwynne Taraska, a senior fellow at Climate Advisers, a consulting firm. "This is an opportunity for them to cement their diplomatic relevance."
Climate change is real, says South Carolina mayor rushing back to hurricaneSeptember 11, 2018
If the government won't help stall global warming, maybe business can, hope some scientists and civic leaders. They're dismayed by the Trump Administration's efforts to roll back climate change mandates, including diluting a requirement that energy companies look for potent greenhouse gas methane leaking from oil and gas wells, weakening fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks and rolling back carbon pollution limits for power plants.
Some business fixes are readily at hand, said Nigel Purvis, CEO of Climate Advisers, a climate consulting firm.
"Renewable energy is as affordable as non-renewable in huge parts of the world. Clean cars are safer, cleaner and faster than traditional cars," he said.
The EPA's deputy chief may be an even bigger threat to the environment than Scott PruittApril 26, 2018
Pruitt's new second in command "keeps a lower profile, he's not as flashy," says Zach Drennen, the communications manager at Climate Advisers, a consulting firm that focuses on climate change policy. But he also has a clear track record of changing policies. Wheeler is a Washington insider who's been working for years to weaken environmental protections out of the public eye. His career includes a stint as the chief counsel for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), a known climate denier who famously brought a snowball in the Senate as proof that global warming isn't real. Wheeler has also worked as a lobbyist for clients including Murray Energy, a coal giant that sued the EPA multiple times. "As a former coal lobbyist, he's got more of an appreciation of the intricacies of the system," Drennen says.
The EPA's push for dirtier cars is based on old dataApril 19, 2018
But the real fight over the standards might take place between the EPA and California, according to Maria Belenky, who has tracked a number of the EPA's moves as the director of policy and research for policy shop Climate Advisers.
If a long legal fight breaks out over this, Belenky says, automakers will probably still plan for the stricter Obama era standards in the meantime. "I can completely see a case in 2024 where we are what we are today, where California refused to back down in terms of its own requirements, the manufacturers didn't want to meet two sets of standards — one in California, one in the rest of the United States — they continue to manufacture cars in line with California standards, and there are lawsuits on either side," she says. "Delay is actually probably our best friend in this kind of scenario."
Young Republicans push for GOP action on climate changeMarch 6, 2018
It's the first time that college Republican groups have publicly endorsed a policy to tackle climate change. But the coalition — announced yesterday — is also part of a burgeoning Republican grassroots movement that's trying to sway the GOP to act on climate. These conservative constituents care about the environment and take global warming seriously — and they want the GOP to take notice.
"The fact that conservative students are getting involved is heartening," says Maria Belenky, director of policy and research at Climate Advisers, in an email to The Verge. "We need more conservative voters to speak up and show support for climate action."
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on the Paris climate accordFebruary 27, 2018
Nigel Purvis, an international law expert who was a State Department climate negotiator both in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, said no country is obligated to make financial payments to any other country under the Paris accord. "That is exactly what the Bush administration and Congress said they wanted instead of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which did have different obligations for developed and developing nations," he said.
Divesting is hard. So groups short oil companies on Wall StreetFebruary 27, 2018
Gabriel Thoumi, a financial analyst and director of capital markets at Climate Advisers, said he talked with Litterman several years ago about the swap.
The phenomenon of stranded assets dates back many years and doesn't apply to energy companies alone, he pointed out.
"My great grandparents might still have a horse, buggy and whip at home that they could theoretically use," Thoumi said. "But they don't."
At least two niche investment funds — Green Alpha Advisors and Green Century Funds — are using a strategy similar to Litterman's, he said. And hedge funds are taking short positions against stranded-asset investments, too, he added.
"Bob is saying that you should invest in where the new economy is going," Thoumi said, "instead of investing in outdated processes."
Three things we learned at this week's U.N. climate change meetingNovember 27, 2017
In the transport space, China and India have suggested that they may ban fossil fuel vehicles in favor of electric vehicles, making midcentury decarbonization goals plausible.
Recognizing the long odds, Nigel Purvis of the consultancy Climate Advisers likens these targeted efforts to "Battlestar Galactica" and "the ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest . . . a shining planet known as Earth." We shall find out if they can succeed.
Forest Initiatives Announced in Bonn Target Sustainable Management, Emissions ReductionsNovember 27, 2017
Convened by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Meridian Institute and Climate Advisers, the Global Platform seeks to facilitate coordination and communication among stakeholders, share best practices, and support progress monitoring. The platform will collaborate closely with the NYDF Assessment Partners, a network of civil society groups and research institutions that publishes the annual NYDF 'Progress Assessment.'
Questionable Deforestation Practices Lead to LossesNovember 27, 2017
When it comes to deforestation, companies that don't responsibly manage risk could face input or output price volatility, loss of market access, loss of reputation and reduced brand equity, operational impacts, and regulatory/litigation impacts, according to a new case study report from Ceres and Climate Advisers.
US and them: America, the elephant in room at climate talksNovember 14, 2017
"It's like having a guest at a dinner party who complains about the food but stays anyway," said Nigel Purvis, who worked climate issues in the State Department for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush – and dealt with a similar situation.
Nations to work on curbing climate change despite TrumpNovember 6, 2017
A key issue will be the transparency of emissions reports, said Nigel Purvis,, a former U.S. State Department negotiator under the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies.
The United States used to be the major force pushing for more open reporting and that will suffer because of the Trump administration's planned withdrawal from Paris, he said.
"Without U.S. leadership the deal is likely to take a little bit longer and may not be as strong," said Purvis, president of the group Climate Advisers.
Trump's asking price for Paris: unknownSeptember 21, 2017
"Until such time as the Trump administration is more clear about what it means, there won't be a lot of efforts by the international community to read his mind about what it will take to make the president like the Paris agreement," says Nigel Purvis, who worked on climate at the State Department under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and later advised Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.
However, there's little to suggest that the administration is putting more meat on the bones of its policy.
"There's no real evidence that they are actively pursuing that theoretical opening that the president provided," Purvis, the CEO of the consulting firm Climate Advisers, tells Axios. "There has been no cabinet-level or high-level process to define 'the ask' of the international community."
The U.S. Won't Pay for the World's Best Climate ScienceAugust 11, 2017
But here's a huge caveat: The 2017 funding resolution's legalese had a loophole. "Although the Congressional Appropriations Act eliminates the line item, it doesn't prohibit contributions to the IPCC or the UNFCCC," says Maria Belenky, the director of policy and research at the climate policy research nonprofit Climate Advisors. This is unlike, say, the $3 billion Green Climate Fund, to which contributions were explicitly prohibited. "So, technically, the State Department could find a way to contribute if there's enough will to do so," says Belenky. For instance, Secretary of State could pull money from the discretionary Economic Support Fund. The former CEO of Exxon Mobil could also reveal that he's a lifetime member of the Sierra Club. Possible, but not likely.
U.S. Officially Tells U.N. it Wants Out of Paris Climate DealAugust 7, 2017
"The State Department is telling the U.N. what the president already told the world on June 1 and it has no legal effect," said Nigel Purvis, who directed U.S. climate diplomacy during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
Purvis said countries can't withdraw from new international agreements, including the Paris climate one, until three years after they go into effect. The Paris agreement went into effect on Nov. 4, 2016.
Deforestation briefing: Fresh hope in battle to save the orangutan from palm oilJuly 28, 2017
Gabriel Thoumi, director of capital markets at New York-based Climate Advisers, and one of the authors of the Chain Reaction report, says many small and mid-sized Malaysian companies have both palm and rubber plantations, and overlapping boards.
He points to an additional problem: while deforestation-free commitments bind individual companies, joint ventures, even between two companies that have individually made zero-deforestation commitments are not covered. "There's a gaping hole in the NPDE in that it doesn't cover joint ventures, and in some cases a significant amount of revenue is coming to the companies from their joint venture sales."
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Unilever slaps palm oil supplier SMS with suspension following damning deforestation reportJuly 28, 2017
Gabriel Thoumi, a director at the consultancy Climate Advisers, said the palm oil bought by Unilever represented about 8% of SMSS's total palm oil sales in the first quarter of 2017.
Operating in the leakage market is a high-risk game, for both suppliers and buyers. The big food brands, many of which have strict sourcing policies on the commodity and are members of the RSPO, move increasingly quickly to snub out any potential scandal.
AP FACT CHECK: EPA chief gets his facts wrong on coal jobsJune 6, 2017
PRUITT, arguing that the U.S. had no alternative but to pull out of the Paris accord because it couldn't otherwise change its terms, said the deal "can only be ratcheted up," not softened. The Obama administration had pledged to reduce carbon emissions by about a quarter within eight years.
"Scott Pruitt is wrong," said Nigel Purvis, who was a State Department climate negotiator under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "They are just hiding behind a falsehood because it is convenient."
Donald Trump dumps Paris climate accord but offers to renegotiateJune 2, 2017
Some critics claimed the President ignored his diplomatic and economic advisers in favour of chief strategist Stephen Bannon, in a desperate bid to rally loyal supporters as investigations deepen into the Trump campaign's links to Russia.
"The President threw a political temper tantrum and the international community should ignore it," said Nigel Purvis, a former US climate change negotiator. He said the call to renegotiate made "no sense", because under the non-legally binding Paris climate deal, President Trump was already allowed to weaken US commitments and stay in the agreement.
Trump says goodbye to the Paris climate agreement. Here's what that meansJune 1, 2017
But the United States is still the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases; in 2013, it was responsible for about 13 percent of the world's total, after China's 28 percent. Once the United States weakens its domestic climate policies, will that reduce other nations' pressure on one another, sapping other nations' political determination to change?
As part of the Paris Agreement, the Obama administration had made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 — and 26 to 28 percent by 2025. The United States might still meet its 2020 target, according to separate analyses by Climate Advisers and the Rhodium Group.
Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris AccordJune 1, 2017
American companies also face the wrath of overseas consumers for abandoning what has been a popular global agreement — customers who could buy more Renaults instead of Chevrolets or Reeboks instead of Nikes.
"Pulling out of Paris would be the worst thing for brand America since Abu Ghraib," said Nigel Purvis, a top environmental negotiator in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and the chief executive of Climate Advisers, a consulting firm.
Reports: Trump Is Planning to Abandon the Paris Climate DealMay 31, 2017
"Should the President withdraw the US from the Paris agreement it would define his America First foreign policy as being oblivious to important global challenges that the American people and our allies care deeply about," says Nigel Purvs, who has worked as a US climate negotiator and is now president of the consulting group Climate Advisers. "Regardless of whether the US participates in the Paris Agreement, other countries will continue to take action against climate change. They understand that most of what they need to do to reduce their climate pollution are things that make their economies more competitive and their people better off."
Trump to announce decision on climate deal on ThursdayMay 31, 2017
The emissions goals are voluntary with no real consequences for countries that fail to meet them. That means the U.S. could stay in the accord and choose not to hit its goals or stay in the pact but adjust its targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. has agreed to reduce its emissions by 2025 to 26 percent to 28 percent of 2005 levels — about 1.6 billion tons.
"Paris more than anything is a symbol," said Nigel Purvis, who directed U.S. climate diplomacy during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rulesMay 10, 2017
But Sime Darby wasn't as lucky. According to a study by the Washington D.C.-based consultancy firm Chain Reaction Research, at least 45 percent of the company's concession area in Liberia would be off limits under the HCS approach.
The report recommends a series of options for Sime Darby to maintain the profitability of its Liberian operation. On the one hand, the report notes, the company could completely disregard its environmental and social obligations – a risky strategy that it is almost certain not to pursue. On the other hand, the report suggests Sime Darby could move toward contract farming, in which the company would act as a buyer for palm fruit farmed by communities on their own land. It warned that Sime Darby's share price could decline once its investors realize how unlikely it is that the company will be able to clear and develop its entire concession area.
Trump Administration Delays Decision on Leaving Climate PactMay 9, 2017
"Other world leaders are likely to press on the president not only the importance they place on climate change but also the impact that pulling out will have on the president's other foreign policy priorities," said Nigel Purvis, a climate negotiator in the Clinton and Bush administrations. "And I think that will make an impression."
Trump says other nations contribute 'nothing.' He's wrong.May 2, 2017
The architecture of the Paris deal, which allows countries to offer emissions cuts and finance based on what each government believes it can deliver, makes comparing commitments difficult. But that freedom to set goals is part of what makes the Paris accord "fair," said Nigel Purvis, a chief climate negotiator in the Clinton and George W. Bush years. That architecture follows what Democrats and Republicans alike demanded in a 1997 Senate resolution that passed 95-0, which specified that any climate deal the United States joined must treat all parties' commitments the same legally.
"Not only is it fair, but [it] is what the Bush administration thought was fair," he said. "It's been a pillar of U.S. climate policy for 10 years."
Fighting 100 days of Trump's environmental rollbackApril 29, 2017
Another group fighting back is Climate Advisors, a policy consultancy in Washington which produces the Trump BackTracker – a regular analysis of the vulnerability of Obama-era climate policies to Trump and, they said, "what that means for the US climate pollution trajectory". Their first update warned of the "Trump Effect" – a half a gigaton increase in pollutants by 2025. This came after the group's analysis found that 55% of Obama's 2015 climate goals were highly vulnerable to reversal under the new administration.
A Refuge for Orangutans, and a Quandary for EnvironmentalistsApril 25, 2017
Organizations that monitor the industry say they have yet to see a correction. Satellite imagery captured by Chain Reaction Research, a risk-management research institute, showed active deforestation on concessions managed by a subsidiary of Sawit Sumbermas Sarana as recently as last May. Concerns over deforestation have led some major palm oil buyers, including Wilmar, the world's largest refiner of palm oil, to halt purchases from the company.
Trump's Climate Cuts Could Result in Half-Billion Extra Tons of CO2 in the AirApril 25, 2017
President Donald Trump's planned climate change policies could lead to an extra half a billion tons of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2025, according to a new analysis. That is equal to the annual electricity emissions of 60 percent of U.S. homes. Climate Advisers, a Washington consultancy, predicts that U.S. carbon emissions, which have been falling, will begin to flatten or increase by 2020 if the Trump administration succeeds in repealing the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era regulations.
White House cancels meeting to decide stance on climate pactApril 18, 2017
Nonetheless, a withdrawal or public announcement that the U.S. is abandoning its efforts to fight man-made climate change could spark repercussions individually from other nations, said Nigel Purvis, who was the top U.S. State Department environmental diplomat when George W. Bush pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto climate treaty. "Any sign that the administration would not be serious will provoke an international reaction that would undermine the administration's foreign policy," said Purvis, an international attorney who served in Democratic and Republican administrations. Other countries, he said, take climate change seriously and could retaliate in trade deals or tariffs or balk on negotiations over international security costs.
Trump trades the planet for a few coal jobs in a doomed industryMarch 28, 2017
Today's executive order doesn't dismantle the CPP just yet — the policy was finalized under Obama, and can't be eliminated with the stroke of a pen. Rather, it instructs the EPA to begin the process of reviewing and reversing the CPP, which could take years. The administration has to publish a proposal saying what's changing and why, open a period of public comment, and then respond to those comments. "Basically, the CPP will be on the books for a while, while the EPA muddles through the process to undo it," Maria Belenky, director of policy and research at Climate Advisers, writes in an email to The Verge. "Now, that said, there will obviously be no enforcement."
Trump team asks State Dept. what it spends on international environmental effortsFebruary 7, 2017
"'While I don't expect President Trump to lead on international climate finance, U.S. programs that support low carbon development abroad will not disappear as some fear,'" said Nigel Purvis, who served in the State Department under both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and now heads the D.C. consulting firm Climate Advisers. Purvis' position is based on the following argument: Programs that promote U.S. clean energy exports to developing countries are likely to continue because they are good for American companies. Furthermore, efforts to create more resilient societies can be defended on national security and humanitarian grounds rather than as climate adaptation, and international forest conservation programs tend to be popular with liberals and conservatives in Congress, he said.
It's judges, not Trump, who will decide Obama's environmental legacyJanuary 20, 2017
The courts will "really decide the extent to which the Obama legacy is maintained or rolled back," says Maria Belenky, director of policy and research at Climate Advisers. "The courts are the area of last resorts for a lot of environmental groups and a lot of states that have supported the Obama administration's agenda."
Trump team asks State Dept. what it spends on international environmental effortsDecember 20, 2016
"While the transition team has a right to know how the State Department spends its money, what they are going to find out is that environmental spending is a tiny fraction of the foreign affairs budget, which itself is a small part of the federal budget," said Nigel Purvis, who served in the State Department under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and now heads the D.C. consulting firm Climate Advisers. "Most international environmental programs run by the State Department enjoy broad bipartisan support and many of these programs were started by Republicans."
What Does Trump's New "Open Mind" on the Climate Accord Mean?November 23, 2016
"The Trump administration has far more to gain from staying in the Paris Agreement than getting out of it," said Nigel Purvis, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for environment under President George W. Bush when the United States signed but failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Bush subsequently declared Kyoto "dead." "I saw firsthand how America's go-it-alone approach on climate made it harder to secure international support for President Bush's foreign policy priorities," Purvis said. "Rejecting Paris now would undermine the president-elect's goals on trade, migration and terror, which presumably he cares more about than walking away from an innocuous climate agreement."
The Climate Challenge Trio: Nations can and must deal with climate change, poverty and economic growth all at the same time.October 28, 2016
The three biggest challenges facing humanity are climate change, poverty and the economy. Perhaps the only good thing about the three is that they can and should be dealt with at the same time.
'Super-pollutants' and the US Senate: How important is Kigali ratification?October 20, 2016
Nigel Purvis, chief executive officer of Climate Advisers and a former State Department treaty lawyer, says that such approval may not be necessary. "It's a well established principle of U.S. law that the President can approve, without further Congressional review, certain international agreements that fall under a treaty already approved by the Senate," he wrote in an emailed statement to the Monitor. The Montréal Protocol, to which the Kigali Agreement is an amendment, was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate in 1988, with a vote of 83 to 0.
The Paris Agreement is really happening — and it's about more than climate changeOctober 4, 2016
"The international community has demonstrated exceptional commitment to the Paris Agreement by bringing it into force in less than a year, which is extraordinary compared to other major international pacts," said Nigel Purvis, a former senior U.S. climate change negotiator in the Clinton and Bush administrations and president of Climate Advisers. "No nation will be able to withdraw from the Paris Agreement without alienating important allies and undermining vital foreign policy objectives."
US to Fail Paris Emissions Pledge Without 'Fundamental Change': ReportSeptember 26, 2016
But any action is preferable to the climate future the U.S. could face under a Donald Trump presidency, experts warned. Maria Belenky, a senior associate at the policy firm Climate Advisers, told The Verge that "The key here is political will from the next administration and that's gonna be extremely integral to whether or not we're able to meet our targets."
Why Trump's idea of 'renegotiating' the Paris climate agreement is so bizarreMay 18, 2016
"Countries gave considerable thought in Paris to creating a durable agreement that would outlive occasional lapses in political will," Nigel Purvis, the president and chief executive of Climate Advisers, said in an April interview with The Washington Post.
Obama's rapid move to join the Paris climate agreement could tie up the new presidentApril 11, 2016
In late March, when the United States and China jointly declared that they'd be moving to immediately sign and then join the Paris climate agreement "as early as possible this year," it was seen as the latest show of joint leadership by the two largest emitters.
Supreme Court's Blow to Emissions Efforts May Imperil Paris Climate AccordFebruary 10, 2016
"The Supreme Court just clarified the stakes for the American people in the election when it comes to climate change," said Nigel Purvis, the president of the Climate Advisers consulting group and a climate diplomat under Bill Clinton and Mr. Bush.
Delegates at Climate Talks Focus on Saving the World's ForestsDecember 10, 2015
The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the world's energy systems, but it has another goal that has received far less attention: a sweeping effort to save the world's forests.
The White House's COP 21 goals: less climate idealism, more political realismDecember 10, 2015
The United States' refusal to make internationally binding its ambitious pollution targets at the Cop21 climate talks in Paris isn't a sign of Barack Obama's lack of political will, but a reflection of the legal limits of his authorities and the political realities of what other nations will commit to doing.
Billions of dollars in Green Climate Fund may be stymied by rising sea of red tapeDecember 6, 2015
The Green Climate Fund was created to be the main conduit for tens of billions of dollars a year from the world's biggest economies for climate projects. "In order to keep the 2 degree target in sight, we need to help the developing countries do more. Every country should do more, but the opportunity to do more quickly is through partnerships with developing countries," says Nigel Purvis.
How climate negotiations proceed: just like an action movieDecember 2, 2015
"It's like seeing an action movie," said former U.S. climate negotiator Nigel Purvis, who is now president of Climate Advisers. "There's generally a plot, bad guys come to threaten the world. Eventually humanity rallies together and overcomes. That's the kind of thing that happens here."
Could a GOP president scuttle a global climate deal? Yes, but it would be anything but easy.December 1, 2015
There are two ways the next GOP president could scuttle our participation in such an international agreement, in which participating countries would all pledge to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. The first, most direct way is by pulling the United States out of it. The second, less direct way would be to roll back Obama's Clean Power Plan, which seeks to reduce carbon emissions from power plants and thus may be pivotal to whether we can meet our end of the bargain.
Climate talks get down to tough business of compromiseDecember 1, 2015
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that parts of the global warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the countries that sign on, setting up a potential fight with Republicans at home.
3 things to know about forests going into ParisNovember 30, 2015
Although it won't take center stage, one thing is certain: The world can't stay below 2 degrees Celsius of warming — the threshold determined by scientists that, if crossed, could lead to catastrophic climate change — without the carbon-sequestering power of forests and the land-use sector.
Trick or treaty? The legal question hanging over the Paris climate change conferenceNovember 30, 2015
"The basic rule is if an international agreement doesn't require a change in U.S. law, if the president has the authority to implement the agreement with existing law, you don't need to send it to Congress for approval," Purvis said. He added that presidents since George Washington had joined "executive agreements" without seeking Senate approval.
Paris summit is already a win for Obama, but planet remains in dangerNovember 28, 2015
President Obama travels to the Paris climate summit on Sunday for what could be the crowning diplomatic achievement of his presidency, yet one that climate experts say will still leave the planet on a path toward dangerous levels of global warming.
Hamstrung by Congress, Obama tries to clinch climate pactNovember 28, 2015
President Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back. Congress can't even agree whether global warming is real.
Meet the climate frenemiesNovember 26, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama wants to burnish his climate legacy before he leaves office, while the Europeans want an ambitious worldwide deal that doesn't leave the Continent's businesses saddled with uncompetitive environmental rules. There's just one big problem: They remain sharply at odds over some fundamental issues.
Sputtering Corporate Effort to Save Forests Highlights a Big Issue for Paris TalksNovember 26, 2015
As global leaders begin hashing out a global warming accord in Paris beginning next week, their efforts to tackle the enormous issue of deforestation was supposed to be boosted by a heralded, business-led effort to protect the world's tropical forests and combat climate change. But that program has so far failed to deliver progress and its sluggishness serves to highlight how complex the issue is, and how many barriers stand in the way.
Stern discipline: The US climate envoy walking a fine lineNovember 25, 2015
Todd Stern is special envoy for climate change at the US State Department, one of a handful of positions to report directly to John Kerry. Stern has held the role since early 2009, appointed by President Barack Obama at the bidding of Hillary Clinton, who he knew when White House staff secretary to Bill Clinton from 1995-1998. It's a "gruelling" and "near impossible" job trying to convince the world to take action and keep the US Congress onside, says Nigel Purvis, deputy chief US climate negotiator from 2001-2002.
When's a warming treaty not a treaty?November 12, 2015
Whatever international deal comes out of the Paris climate talks, it likely won't be a treaty that needs ratification by a reluctant Republican U.S. Congress. However, as Nigel Purvis explains, the U.S. Constitution and the rest of the world have different definitions of the word "treaty," and the outcome of Paris is likely to contain both binding and non-binding elements.
How the U.S. might help close a 'significant' emissions gap after Paris talksNovember 3, 2015
The Obama administration can help narrow the emissions reduction shortfall that is projected to come out of this year's Paris talks by leveraging trade negotiations and other bilateral engagement to help developing nations deliver more than they can do on their own, a new Climate Advisers analysis proposes.
As Indonesia's president visits U.S., the 'biggest climate story on the planet' unfolds in his countryOctober 26, 2015
An Oval Office meeting between President Obama and Indonesian President Joko Widodo comes as raging forest and peatland fires in Indonesia pour huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, highlighting the challenge both leaders face in curbing climate change.
Forests advocates see a gap in draft text for Paris talksOctober 13, 2015
The near complete omission of the climate-change-mitigating ability of forests from the recently released draft text of the United Nations' climate deal has some forest advocates closely watching the upcoming pre-Paris meeting to be held later this month.
Palm oil company pledge to halt deforestation boosts calls for government reformSeptember 23, 2015
Indonesia's second-largest palm oil grower, Astra Agro Lestari, pledged to halt deforestation, peatland destruction and labor violations in its palm oil plantations. The strong commitment goes further than the deforestation moratorium the company announced in June, and could also have deeper political ramifications in Indonesia as companies are looking to the Indonesian government to enact meaningful forest reform to level the playing field.
Optimism in the Fight Against Climate ChangeSeptember 18, 2015
Climate Advisers' Rebecca Lefton talks with WNYC's The Takeaway about the road through the Paris climate summit and the reasons for renewed optimism in the international fight against climate change.
BBC World News TV: Michael Wolosin Discusses Deforestation in BrazilJuly 9, 2015
Climate Advisers's Managing Director Michael Wolosin joins BBC World News TV to discuss deforestation trends in Brazil, and President Rouseff's recent meeting in Washington with President Obama in which the two countries announced new plans to fight climate change ahead of the Paris summit in December.
In a major moment for climate policy, China, Brazil, and the U.S. all announce new commitmentsJune 30, 2015
Alongside the announcement of China's official climate plan for the Paris summit, President Obama and Brazilian President Rousseff pledged for both countries to increase their share of renewable energy, while Brazil also committed to restore 12 million hectares of its forests by 2030 as it works to eliminate illegal deforestation.
Brazil's president under pressure to make zero-deforestation pledge during Obama meetingJune 25, 2015
Environmental groups in Brazil and the United States are laying out a wish list for the Tuesday meeting between U.S. President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, including a suggestion for the Brazilian leader to announce a target date to end deforestation in her nation once and for all.
Deforestation freeze unlikely in U.S.-Brazil climate declarationJune 25, 2015
A target date for Brazil to reach zero net deforestation is not expected to be part of a bilateral summit between President Dilma Rousseff and President Obama in Washington. However, many expect the two countries to announce plans for ambitious cooperation to tackle the main causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
E.P.A. Takes Step to Cut Emissions From PlanesJune 9, 2015
The EPA has released its endangerment finding showing that emissions from airlines pose a risk to human health because of their contribution to climate change, an essential first step to reign in one of the world's fastest growing emissions sectors. However, the EPA may follow the lead of the International Civil Aviation Organization, which is on track to set a 'business-as-usual' standard that could lock in emissions increases for decades to come.
Six Months Before the Paris Climate Talks, Nations Have a Lot of Work to DoJune 5, 2015
Analysis shows that the UN climate agreement in Paris will, at best, get the world halfway to an emissions pathway to stay under 2 degrees C of warming. The international community has to now look at how we can work together to get the other half through partnerships on clean energy, forest conservation, and other global measures.
EPA Nears Decision on Aircraft Emissions' Risk to ClimateJune 2, 2015
The EPA is preparing to set regulations on carbon emissions from airplanes, which are on pace to triple by 2050. This is an opportunity for meaningful climate action, but the EPA may just match the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization, which are unlikely to deliver any significant emissions reductions.
The news on climate is awful. So now what?May 19, 2015
David Roberts follows up on a widely-read post on the "awful truth" about climate change with a piece about what we need to do about it — including a discussion of the gap between the action we need and the commitments heading into this year's negotiations in Paris.
Indonesia extends forest-clearing moratorium, but greens say it's not enoughMay 14, 2015
Indonesian announced that the country has again extended a key policy intended to preserve its swiftly disappearing tropical forests. Environmental groups praised the decision as a signal that the nation's new administration is taking forest protection seriously, but because the moratorium has had limited on-the-ground impact, advocates also called for the policy to be strengthened.
She's ahead in the polls, but where is Hillary on climate change?April 13, 2015
As the race for the White House in 2016 begins, ClimateWire takes a closer look at where Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton stands on climate change and energy issues.
48 hours that changed the future of rainforestsApril 2, 2015
Wilmar International's landmark No Deforestation policy in December 2013 started a wave of commitments from global palm oil traders to stop deforestation, peatland development, and labor exploitation in their supply chains. Grist tells the behind-the-scenes story of the campaign and negotiations led by Glenn Hurowitz with Wilmar CEO Kuok Khoon Hong that led to this historic agreement.
This is how the U.S. plans to tackle climate change in the next decade and beyondMarch 31, 2015
As the United States and other countries submit their formal national strategies for reducing greenhouse gases ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris, our analysis shows that a strong set of expected pledges could deliver around 50 percent of the emissions reductions need for a likely chance of limiting warming to 2°C. As Rebecca Lefton argues, bilateral international partnerships can help close the gap in these multilateral international agreements.
ADM Announces Plan to Fight DeforestationMarch 31, 2015
Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's largest commodities suppliers, has joined the growing number of major agriculture and food companies promising to take steps to conserve forests that are threatened by the global demand for commodities like palm oil and soy.
Palm Oil King Goes From Forest Foe to Buddy in Deal With CriticsMarch 12, 2015
Bloomberg BusinessWeek tells the fascinating inside story of how Wilmar International CEO Kuok Khoon Hong went from "forest foe" to one of the leading drivers of the palm oil industry's move towards forest and human rights protection over the past year.
The critical flaw in the EU's climate planFebruary 25, 2015
Today the EU will unveil its latest commitment to fighting climate change – a pledge to cut internal emissions by at least 40% by 2030. The new target represents a good step forward, a hard-fought political compromise at a time of considerable economic difficulty. But the EU's regulations would only reduce emissions within Europe, whereas success on climate depends on Europe also taking steps to cut pollution outside of Europe as well.
How a small band of activists saved tropical forests by turning around 'Big Doughnut'February 4, 2015
America's biggest doughnut companies' decision to buy only deforestation-free palm oil offers a window into one of the environmental movement's biggest success stories in recent years. How it came to be is an example of a new form of green advocacy, manifested in equal doses of public protest and behind-the-scenes detective work.
Obama's India visit: Hopes for clean energy and climate dealsJanuary 23, 2015
As President Obama travels to India, the US hopes to persuade India, one of the world's biggest emitters, to commit to an ambitious post-2020 plan for reining in its greenhouse gas emissions ahead of the international climate change meeting in Paris this December.
Wilmar opens palm oil supplies to scrutiny to protect forestsJanuary 22, 2015
Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil trader, made information on all of its 800 palm oil suppliers available through an online dashboard in a major new transparency initiative to further implementation of its landmark No Deforestation commitment.
Valuing carbon: One size doesn't fit allJanuary 6, 2015
Even as a global deal to curb carbon emissions eludes the world's governments, different carbon-pricing systems are being set up by regional blocs, signalling that the carbon-credit system is not dead, but flourishing.
The Big Fix: Restored Forests Breathe Life Into Efforts Against Climate ChangeDecember 23, 2014
In the battle to limit the risks of climate change, it has been clear for decades that focusing on the world's immense tropical forests is the single most promising near-term strategy. Now, a growing global movement is making a fresh push to end deforestation and promote regrowth of the world's forests.
How regular people are fixing the international palm-oil industryDecember 12, 2014
The past year has seen a string of commitments from palm oil traders to stop deforestation, peatland development, and labor exploitation in their global supply chains. In an interview with Grist, Glenn Hurowitz explains how this transformation has come about and what it means for the future of forests and sustainable agriculture.
Brazil extends Amazon-saving soybean moratorium to 2016November 26, 2014
The Brazilian soy industry announced that it would renew the Amazon Soy Moratorium, a historically successful forest protection measure that was set to expire at the end of 2014, through May 2016.
After the U.S.-China Pact, Will the World Pick a Peak Carbon Date?November 17, 2014
The U.S.-China agreement suggests the potential for a new global peak carbon target—the year by which worldwide greenhouse gas emissions will start to decline.
Bunge commits to zero deforestation palm oilOctober 28, 2014
Agribusiness giant Bunge has joined the growing ranks of companies that have established zero deforestation policies for their palm oil supply chains.
Experts take sides on new U.S. position on Paris talksOctober 16, 2014
As momentum builds toward the next United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, experts weigh in on the opportunities and challenges of negotiating a new global climate pact in 2015.
Report rates palm oil companies on sustainability commitmentsOctober 5, 2014
A new report ranks global palm oil companies on their sustainability commitments and performance on protections of forests, peatlands, and human rights.
Cargill commits to zero deforestation across entire global supply chain: all commoditiesSeptember 24, 2014
Cargill, one of the world's largest agricultural companies, has extended its zero deforestation commitment for palm oil to all commodities it produces.
The world's 2 largest greenhouse gas emitters use U.N. summit to pledge climate actionsSeptember 24, 2014
President Obama and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli told a landmark global warming summit yesterday that their countries stand ready to make serious new commitments to tackling climate change.
Nelson Mandela's widow calls for urgent climate action at UNSeptember 24, 2014
The widow of Nelson Mandela punctured the self-congratulatory mood of the UN summit on Tuesday, saying world leaders had failed to rise to the challenge of climate change.
Companies Take the Baton in Climate Change EffortsSeptember 24, 2014
With political efforts to slow global warming moving at a tortuous pace, some of the world's largest companies are stepping into the void, pledging more support for renewable energy, greener supply chains and fresh efforts to stop the destruction of the world's tropical forests.
Obama: No Nation Has "Free Pass" On Climate ChangeSeptember 23, 2014
In a forceful appeal for international cooperation on limiting carbon pollution, President Barack Obama warned starkly on Tuesday that the globe's climate is changing faster than efforts to address it. "Nobody gets a pass," he declared. "We have to raise our collective ambition."
You Cannot Save the Climate Without TreesSeptember 22, 2014
The People's Climate March that trumpeted its way through the streets of Manhattan yesterday was led by communities on the front lines of climate change—and Indigenous Peoples were at the forefront of this group. The tropical forests where they live are not only getting hammered by changing weather patterns, drug traffickers, invasive pests, and massive fires, but these woodlands are also being cleared at an alarming rate, making way for cropland, pastureland, strip mines, and other ventures that extract natural resources from the Earth.
Leaders Restart Climate TalksSeptember 21, 2014
World leaders embark Tuesday on the first new round of global climate talks since a push in 2009 failed to reach binding agreements.
Sweet: Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme Pump Up Pledge On Palm OilSeptember 18, 2014
Environmentalists say two major doughnut chains got a little sweeter this week. Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Brands have both made new commitments to source palm oil for frying their goodies from suppliers who are not clear-cutting forests.
This Month's U.N. Climate Summit Will Help Seal the Fate of NationsSeptember 5, 2014
The first thing to know about the U.N. Climate Summit is that it's not a part of the formal global climate treaty negotiations. Except it sort of is.
The pending Paris climate deal may not keep the world under 2 C — does that mean failure?August 21, 2014
A growing number of leaders are openly acknowledging that a 2015 international agreement to avert catastrophic global warming will surely fall short of what's needed to achieve that goal.
Abbott's Direct Action claim 'disingenuous'June 11, 2014
Tony Abbott's assertion on the eve of his visit to Washington that Barack Obama's climate change policy is "very similar" to his own Direct Action approach contains an element of truth but is also disingenuous. There are more differences than similarities between the Prime Minister's and President Obama's approaches to climate change, far beyond their contrasting enthusiasm for the topic.
Obama budget provides many federal agencies with a focus for dealing with climate changeMarch 5, 2014
The president's budget undergirds a mantra of the climate change movement: It's cheaper to strap down the nation before a storm strikes than to rebuild it afterward. It also reveals the political difficulties in doing that.
Kerry's Asia agenda highlights climate change talksFebruary 14, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry arrives today in Beijing, where climate change will claim center stage on his agenda. Traveling with U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, Kerry is expected to meet with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi on a range of issues, including cooperation between the two emissions giants in areas like vehicle fuel standards, building efficiency and the collecting of greenhouse gas emissions data.
McCarthy to discuss agency's climate work at DavosJanuary 22, 2014
U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy plans to tout her agency's efforts to address climate change this week when she speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Climate change leads agenda at Davos economic talksJanuary 21, 2014
When corporate leaders and politicians gather today for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, climate change will dominate their agenda in an unprecedented way.
Pacific trade agreement draft could facilitate illegal logging, say forest advocatesJanuary 16, 2014
Environmentalists yesterday reacted strongly to a leaked draft of the environment chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement among 12 countries that is being negotiated behind closed doors.
International carbon bank could revive flagging marketDecember 17, 2013
The recent UN climate talks in Warsaw failed to give carbon markets the certainty it needed, but there are some signs of revival, say experts, and an international carbon reserve could be the answer.
Deforestation reduction mechanism faces trouble finding financial support, says studyOctober 8, 2013
A lack of financial support for a key scheme to fight deforestation is foreshadowing a dim future for the program, a recent paper finds. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a movement that would create a financial system to pay landowners to keep forests standing, is suffering from an unclear future demand for carbon credits, said authors in a paper from the environmental group Conservation International, a strong supporter of REDD+ and the use of carbon markets to generate financing for conservation.
Women Climate Leaders Highlight Environmental Issues in the PacificAugust 20, 2013
On August 20, 2013, Meridian hosted a roundtable discussion which brought together a State Department International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on Pacific Women Climate Leaders with women leaders from Washington, DC-based climate-focused organizations to discuss environmental and climate policy.
Glimmer of hope for carbon marketsJune 17, 2013
Carbon markets suffered a heavy setback recently when the European Parliament rejected a plan to boost the flagging price of carbon in the region's emissions trading scheme (ETS). But while carbon trading worldwide has been floundering, experts say carbon markets have a permanent role in combating climate change and are predicting an industry revival in the coming years.
U.S. govt has role to play in stopping commodity-driven deforestationJune 7, 2013
The U.S. government could play a key role in breaking the link between commodity production and greenhouse gas emissions associated with tropical deforestation, argues a new report released by seven environmental groups.
Administration, Congress must work with business to end deforestationJune 4, 2013
Climate Advisers managing director Michael Wolosin on the crucial role the U.S. government can play in helping break the link between commodity production and climate change.
Indonesia Goes Green to the Dismay of Palm Oil ProducersMay 30, 2013
Climate Advisers Managing Director, Glenn Hurowitz, comments on Indonesia's extended policy to protect rain forests from palm oil development.
Carbon markets have worked despite Europe's difficulties, report assertsApril 30, 2013
Climate Advisers' President, Nigel Purvis, comments on some of the key findings of a recent report co-authored with the Center for American Progress on carbon markets.
Obama fiscal plans strive for breakthrough energy research and low-carbon transportationApril 11, 2013
Climate Advisers director of research and policy Michael Wolosin suggests that policy measures need to play a greater role than direct finance in meeting the Obama administration's international climate objectives.
Lessons From Kenya & Malawi on Combining Climate Change, Development, Population PolicyApril 8, 2013
Clive Mutunga, a senior research associate at Population Action International (PAI), spoke alongside Abigail Jones of Climate Advisers and Eliya Zulu of the African Institute of Development Policy at the Wilson Center about two new policy reports on incorporating population dynamics – mainly efforts to meet unmet demand for contraceptives – into climate change adaptation policies in Malawi and Kenya.
Public and private investment described as critical to prevent forest destructionMarch 20, 2013
The United States must use public money to spur private investment to stop massive deforestation, said the U.S. envoy for climate change yesterday.


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The City of Derry Airport serves the entire North West region of Ireland and is located seven miles northeast of Northern Ireland's second largest city - the historic walled city of Londonderry. Twenty minutes from the airport you cross into the magical county of Donegal with its dramatic highlands and rugged coastline. A short journey northeast from the airport leads you to the tranquil Glens of Antrim and the beautiful Causeway Coast.
Our airport is your gateway to one of Ireland's most beautiful regions. We hope you visit soon.
City of Derry Airport (IATA: LDY, ICAO: EGAE) near Lough Foyle and the village of Eglinton, seven miles north east of the walled city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Passenger numbers in 2004 were almost 239,000.
The airport has its origins in World War II. In 1941 an RAF air base was established as home to No. 133 Squadron RAF which flew Hurricane fighters in defence of the city. In 1942 the base was occupied by No. 41 Squadron RAF. In 1943 the airfield became a Fleet Air Arm base called HMS Gannet and was home to which provided convoy air cover as part of the Second Battle of the Atlantic.
After the war the base remained a military establishment until the 1950's when the Ministry of Defence returned much of the land to the original landowners.
Some limited commercial activities were undertaken at the airfield during the 1960's when Emerald Airways operated a Glasgow service. During the 1970's the only flying at Eglinton was carried out by Eglinton Flying Club which is still based at the airport. In 1978 Londonderry County Borough Council decided to purchase the airfield with a view to improving the transport infrastructure for the North-West of Ireland. The airport has slowly developed since then. Loganair introduced the first scheduled flight between Derry and Glasgow in 1979 and it still operates today. This route was the only route for ten years until British Airways introduced a daily Manchester service in 1989.
A major redevelopment programme was undertaken by the Council from 1989 to 1993 with grant aid from the European Regional Development Fund. £10.5 million was spent upgrading all of the facilities at the airport including runways, taxiways, access roads, navigation equipment and runway lighting, as well as a new purpose-built terminal and fire station. The new terminal was officially opened in March 1994.


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I'm just another guy who likes to mess around with wordy stuff – all kinds – some I call 'poetry' though my formal and technical handle on 'real poetry' I confess is from a highly unschooled perspective, though I try to pluck off a pointer here and there and now and then, learn a little about devices and etc…. same with 'fictions'. Same with all of it.
So I'm having a ball with this blog. Got lots of (unfinished-drafty-daft) stuff to play with plus doing this blog seems to be stimulating whatever places in the mind are associated with 'newness'; like I tend to get bogged in a few pieces at the expense of going fresher, so I've been on a wave of starting/doing something new each day – even if it's one paragraph or a couple lines… the more you do it the more habitual it becomes – that idea. If someone out there gets anything good from anything I put in here, why that would be so super peachy sweet.
Well thanks for visiting and reading and… and thanks.
Or could say it this way: If I could draw or paint I would draw or paint but I can't draw or paint so… one uses what one has to do what one can't help doing, like making up stuff which is what I like to do. Or try to do. Among other things.
close to a couple years later:
I became aware of options accessible to aspirant wordsmiths in realms of self-publishing; becoming aware, I checked it out and became excited; becoming excited I explored the world responsible for the excitement. Started with ebooks but I should've gone right to print, because after seeing the actual thing and being able to flip through paper pages and set the thing on the table or toss it to the counter or even let a drop of coffee dribble on it…. well you get the idea.
So I finally got into what you can do with createspace and I hope it turns into a long and comfortable journey and this will be just the first of many, which is titled after one of the early poems I posted here – which is now available here as: Paper Cuts
around another year later:
as usual the settling comfortably into a groove became elusive, but the latest is that I went and returned a few titles I could be highly critical of but who am I to say they won't entertain a few folks out there – they are not intended to be all that profound anyway, though again, any profundity can be viewed from the reader's subjectivity. Also there's been the issue of a pen I can live with and I think I finally hit on one (though T. H. Seacrest ain't a bad one – feel like it could come in handy).
Anyway, here's my Amazon Author page and a few titles, all ebooks except for the Mixins & Fixins, and I'm presently working on a rewrite of the Semen Springs Novella. But sometimes I look at the original version and wonder if it's okay the way it is.
Well enough blabbing.


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The winners of the 15th Annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival were announced Friday night at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. Ten awards and $30,000 in cash and prizes were presented. Geoffrey Smith's "The English Surgeon" won for best international feature documentary, with the jury commenting in a statement: "Polished and shameless, in the best sense of combining two seemingly contradictory elements and shaping them into a satisfying and penetrating whole." Isabelle Lavigne and Stephane Thibault's hockey doc "Junior" won the award for best canadian feature documentary. Special jury prizes were awarded to Tamar Yarom's "To See If I'm Smiling" in the international category, and Nik Sheenan's "Flicker" in the Canadian category. The new HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award was presented to Boris Despodov for "Corridor #8." The festival continues until Sunday, and the winners for both the audience award and CIDA Award for best Canadian film will be announced Monday, April 28. [Peter Knegt]
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Dr. Djavad Mowafaghian
A True Canadian
Dr. Djavad Mowafaghian, BC Children's Hospital's largest individual donor, is an outstanding individual whose long history of community and philanthropic leadership has touched the lives of countless children and families from across the country and around the world.
Growing up in a modest household in Iran, Dr. Mowafaghian learned from his mother that it was his duty to be kind and generous to others. Since making BC his home in 1987, Dr. Mowafaghian has demonstrated a deep desire and passion for helping children, generously donating more than $10 million to BC Children's Hospital.
His most recent gift of $4 million to build The Djavad Mowafaghian Child Care Centre at BC Children's Hospital, which opened in April 2014, gives children from infants to preschoolers a place that will engage them to learn and play while being cared for. The centre also features a large and beautifully landscaped outdoor space for fresh air and outdoor play. This gift, in addition to his previous $6-million donation to renovate the hospital's cancer clinics and create the Djavad Mowafaghian Wing, has helped to transform the care thousands of children receive every year.
In December 2013 Dr. Mowafaghian was appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the nation's highest civilian honours, in recognition of his outstanding achievement and dedication to the community. This honour came just one year after his appointment to the Order of British Columbia.
Mr. Hamid Eshghi is the president and director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation, and is the proud nephew of Dr. Mowafaghian. "My uncle has been my teacher and mentor now for half a century and I am thrilled that his commitment to helping others is being recognized in Canada in this way," he says.
As a donor and past governor of BC Children's Hospital Foundation, Dr. Mowafaghian has inspired the entire community with his generosity, kindness and quiet philanthropy. While his charitable giving in the province is significant, his legacy and the impact he is having on the lives of children and families across Canada are beyond measure.