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Jake Schmidt
Linthicum, MD
I'm the international climate policy director at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). I recently joined NRDC, after eight years at the Center for Clean Air Policy where I was director of international programs. Over that timeframe I was involved in climate policy development at various levels--state, US national, Europe, developing countries, and international negotiations. I've been helping to shape the framework of the international post-2012 response to climate change working with senior international climate negotiators from key developed and developing countries and policymakers in Europe, China, India, Brazil, and Mexico.
I'm now taking that experience and using it at NRDC to help develop the post-2012 international response to climate change and the actions in key regions of the world to deliver on that agreement.
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His speech provides a very promising hope for optimism on global warming. I was inspired today, by the signals of change that President Obama outlined in his inaugural address. There were few words specifically on global warming, but its mere mention is a continuing strong signal that addressing this is a top priority of his Administration as you point out.
He provides strong hints of the change to come on global warming both domestically and internationally. I highlight and comment on some of those hints here: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jschmidt/changing_of_th ....
With his inspiring words at this crucial juncture, it is hard to not be inspired that change is truly coming. That the US and the world can come together and address the challenge of global warming by capping US emissions and getting a strong international agreement.
It can and must be done. And now we can get started with the hard work of delivering on this promise. -
Jake commented on the article |I agree that the New Yorker article on illegal logging was a great read. It shed the light on a really important driver of deforestation emissions. What it didn't leave you with was anything tangible to do about it and connect it as strongly to the global warming & deforestation debate. I provided some insights on this connection and some thoughts on how illegal logging could be addressed in the efforts to address global warming here: http://tinyurl.com/illegal-logging
I would add to your list of top reads the recommendations from the coalition of environmental groups--Transition to Green--on actions that the new Administration and Congress should take to address many critical environmental challenges. While not written in the eloquence of best seller, the recommendations are top notch and their implementation is so critical to the future of our planet. I discuss the international climate elements here (http://tinyurl.com/green-transition) and my colleagues discussed the other elements here (http://tinyurl.com/green-transition-all). -
Jake commented on the article |With the next international climate negotiation set to occur in Poland in just under two weeks, he also signaled that he will restore America’s leadership in international global warming negotiations (as I discussed here: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/ blogs/ jschmidt/ obama_signals_leadership_on_global_warming.html).
With his statement today and his request for a report back from Members of Congress attending the Poland meeting, the President-elect has sent the signal that the delegates have waited so long to hear...the US is back at the negotiation table.
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