Jeffrey's blog

Now after three days of travel, I am finally in Bali, staying at a hotel quite beyond my budget but close to the conference center.

I am flying on Qatar Airlines racking up my carbon footprint karma on the way to Bali in the current guise of "civil society representative for North America" to participate in the 11th session of the Global Major Groups and Stakeholder Forum, followed by the 11th Special Session of the

This afternoon I attended an event presenting and discussing the recent report by the second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change (AHTEG) on Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation.

I am now sitting in the Thursday session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). Right now the delegates from Argentina and Saudi Arabia are highlighting their concerns about key parts of the Protocol being taken out.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. Copenhagen. The Copenhagen Climate Exchange opened today at Øksnehallen, in the center of Copenhagen, in the week before the official COP 15 meeting.

Last week, on October 5, President Obama signed Executive Order 13584 on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance.

Today on World Environment Day we launch the new CitNet website, honoring the roots of the sustainability movement in that UN conference in 1972 when "environment" began to be taken seriously as a component of global and national policy.

It is April 22, 2009 and today we celebrate the 39th Earth Day. We had hoped to launch CitNet's new interactive CitNet website today but there's still much to do before we put this online. So we will target June 5 to launch on World Environment Day.

On Monday, February 2, the National Strategy Campaign launched a letter-writing action directed to President Obama and members of Congress, calling for their support of a National Sustainability Strategy. We are hoping to see hundreds of such letters directed to policymakers over the next weeks, letting them know we want "an approach not based on short-term fixes but on a long-range vision."

At this moment, CitNet member Rob Wheeler is busy trying to get various people and organizations who care about sustainability to cast their vote to make sure that "Develop and Implement a National Sustainability Strateg