American energy interests and environmental agencies worked in tandem to pry open Chinese markets under the guise of climate diplomacy, a coordination kept from public view in 1999.
By Desmond Okafor ·
For over 25 years, the State Department kept secret how it viewed China's internal instability and climate disasters as tactical variables in a high-stakes diplomatic stalemate.
By June Hargrove ·
The U.S. tried to cut through the red tape in Beijing to reach technical experts, but a single director-general ensured the diplomats kept the scientists in the dark.
By Marcus Boone ·
A internal power struggle over who controlled U.S. climate diplomacy stayed hidden for decades, pitting an ambitious outsider against the agency tasked with saving the planet
By Marcus Boone ·
A weekly briefing to President Clinton tracked a public clash between DOD officials over the Kyoto Protocol while the administration's policy hit a wall in Congress
By Marcus Boone ·
For years, the gap between the EPA's scientific data and the White House's public narrative remained hidden; a 1999 message shows a failed push to massage U.S. emissions totals before COP-5.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Bill Clinton and Al Gore were urged to use personal diplomatic outreach to break a deadlock over emissions markets before a November summit in Buenos Aires
By Theo Marchetti ·
A 1997 report kept the military's status as the government's largest energy consumer tucked into the pages of a diplomatic summary, masking a deeper strategic shift.
By Constance Bell ·
The Global South was treated as a hurdle to be cleared while a White House strategy shifted toward voluntary targets, a move kept from the public for years.
By Marcus Boone ·
The public was told funds for greenhouse gas reduction were failing in Congress, while the government expanded secret surveillance and ignored a collapsing energy grid.
By Marcus Boone ·
While the world faced a heating planet, a 1999 memo shows the White House leveraging tax bills to bypass political deadlock and secure funding for a climate agenda that faced intense internal opposition.
By June Hargrove ·
Military officials embedded themselves in the Clinton administration's climate research to map strategic vulnerabilities while the public was fed sanitized talking points.
By June Hargrove ·
Coal lobbies and 60 senators pressured the White House to walk away from Kyoto after developing nations rejected a mandate for binding emissions targets by 2005.
By June Hargrove ·
The American public was kept as uninformed participants in a planetary collapse while lawmakers sued to gag scientists and the Clinton administration fought for the Kyoto Protocol.
By Miriam Adler ·
National security policymakers were told in 2000 that the Kyoto Protocol would likely fail, leaving the world to face a slow-motion crisis involving greenhouse gas emissions and instability.
By Constance Bell ·
Specific incentives used to bind the Global South stay hidden, though the Pentagon's involvement in 1997 climate strategy treated greenhouse gas emissions as a theater of operations.
By June Hargrove ·