16 members of the US Climate Action Partnership (US-CAP), including WRI, sent this letter to Congress and the incoming Obama Administration last week.

The argument that developing countries are taking no action to address climate change is wrong.

Despite slow progress at COP-14, the national climate action plans of several key countries announced this year are signs of progress.

If we are to solve the climate problem, our current generation of conventional, CO2 intensive coal plants must be our last.

The United States signed on to the most universally supported treaty on climate change, the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was designed to protect the world from the dangerous effects of climate change. Although the U.S. did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the next round of negotiations on a follow-up treaty are currently underway and the U.S. must consider how to re-engage in the international climate change process.

WRI and a group of corporate green power purchasers explore whether long-term green power contracts can be a win-win for providers and consumers.

It may be counter-intuitive, but a global economic slowdown could help the United States and China work together on climate change.

The Clean Air Act and new cap-and-trade legislation are both good policy options to address global warming; they can and should be developed simultaneously.

A new collaboration launches to develop guidelines for measuring and managing corporate GHG emissions throughout the product life cycle and across the entire value chain.

WRI’s Climate Program Director Jonathan Pershing discusses the likely outcomes of the upcoming UNFCCC Convention in Poznan, Poland.