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Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now! Fireside chat with the authors
March 10, 2021
Join Alan Miller, Durwood Zaelke, and Stephen O. Andersen, climate and ozone action champions, for a fireside chat on their upcoming book Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now!, a call to action and roadmap for the Biden Administration to succeed on climate by going beyond CO2. Andrew Eil, Partner at Climate Finance Advisors, will interview the authors, explore what the book’s findings mean for climate policy, and probe how the financial sector can play its part. read more
Study Finds Gulf Stream in the Atlantic at its Weakest (interview)
March 2, 2021
IGSD President Durwood Zaelke explains how a weakened Gulf Stream is an indication of the non-linear feedbacks and tipping points we’re fast approaching. These feedbacks and tipping points are probably the weakest links in the chain of climate protection. read more
Climate Crisis: Scientists Say Rise of Temperatures Cause Melts, Landslides (interview)
February 24, 2021
IGSD President Durwood Zaelke explains we must slam on the breaks of climate warming, not just from CO2 but also the short-lived super climate pollutants (HFCs, methane, tropospheric ozone, and black carbon soot’), that can give us the fastest way to slow down the warming. read more
Opinion: We want to cut global warming in half starting on Earth Day
February 18, 2021
By Rep. Scott Peters, Prof. V. Ramanathan & D. Zaelke- Reining in carbon dioxide emissions is critical. But we must act to remove super pollutants today or decarbonization won’t be enough. This should start with a 10-year sprint to cut super pollutants as part of our renewed commitment to the Paris Agreement at the president’s Climate Leaders Summit on Earth Day in April. read more
IGSD, Clean Air Task Force, other NGOs call on President Biden to take fast action to cut super climate pollutants
January 29, 2021
In addition to putting super pollutants on the agenda of President Biden’s 22 April climate summit, the NGO letter urges the Administration “to make mitigation of super pollutants a priority in all of the international consultations and negotiations that will take place this year”, including COP 26 in Glasgow and the Arctic Council ministerial. read more
Only fast action can curb planetary heating in time
January 29, 2021
Curbing CO2 emissions gets most of the attention and getting to net zero emissions by midcentury is essential in the long run to abate climate change. But that’s not enough. To bend the warming curve, we must drastically reduce the less appreciated short-lived “super-pollutants”. read more
Pandemic Relief Bill Mandates HFC Phasedown in Compliance with Montreal Protocol’s Kigali Amendment
January 8, 2021
In a huge win for the environment and American businesses, the Consolidated Appropriations Act that was signed into law on 27 December 2020 phases down potent greenhouse gases HFCs. Reducing HFC refrigerants could avoid up to 0.5°C of future warming. Climate benefits could double with parallel improvements in energy efficiency of cooling equipment. read more
K. Madhava Sarma & K. Ramalakshmi Montreal Protocol Science Champion Award
December 9, 2020
The award is designed to promote science-based investigations to strengthen the Montreal Protocol. Award recipient will receive a US$5,000 research stipend plus sponsorship of air travel and expenses to attend one of the week-long meetings of the Montreal Protocol where the findings of the sponsored work will be presented in a side event. Nomination Deadline: 15 January 2021. read more
As Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry Will Be No Stranger to International Climate Negotiations
November 25, 2020
Two weeks before President Trump was elected President in November 2016, then Secretary of State John Kerry held court in a hotel room in Kigali, Rwanda, to help secure one of the most important and little-known international climate agreements in history. By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News. read more
Durwood Zaelke and IGSD hail John Kerry’s climate appointment to National Security Council by President-elect Joe Biden
November 23, 2020
John Kerry not only was instrumental in delivering the Paris Agreement, he also was key for winning the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFC refrigerants and avoid up to 0.5°C of warming—the single biggest bite yet taken out of the climate problem. read more
