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Hosted in Los Angeles by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and jointly supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Sustainable Development and Pivotal Place: Southern China programs, the Governors' Global Climate Summit brought together over 800 attendees.

Center for Climate Strategies, a project of RBF-funded Enterprising Environmental Solutions, has released a new report on the economic benefits of climate action, drawing on years of experience in several American states.

Michael Northrop, director of the Sustainable Development program at the RBF, illustrates how the deepening economic crisis presents a prime opportunity for American cities to rebuild the economy based on low carbon, clean energy.

How can the Clean Air Act—one of the most successful pieces of U.S. environmental legislation to date—be used by the next president to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and address climate action?

In his latest climate action brief, Presidential Climate Action Project Executive Director Bill Becker sheds light on signs of progress toward a new, safer, and more prosperous American economy.

2030, Inc. (Architecture 2030) brings the message home: green buildings are vital to an effective climate change strategy.

States such as California, Arizona, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Florida are devising sweeping climate and energy policies that could be a blueprint for a future national climate policy.

College campuses across North America are stepping up green practices and policies, with more than two out of three schools showing improved performance over the last year, according to the new "College Sustainability Report Card 2008."

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) has announced a $1 million grant to 1Sky, a national campaign, to support a nationwide movement to achieve global warming policy solutions in the United States by 2010.

This paper discusses whether climate change will require a significant reduction of consumption among the richer people in the world, and ends with the most optimistic picture the author can conjure up, of the world in the year 2075.