Geoffrey Dabelko, director of the Environmental Change & Security Project, is posting updates from the Hague Conference on Environment, Security, and Sustainable Development, at grist magazine

In the U.S., playing state politics might be a more effective tactic than railing against Washington's climate inaction...Americans here suggested that Europeans pass over Washington and go directly to Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mitt Romney, and George Pataki, three Republican state leaders from California, Massachusetts, and New York, who appear to be taking climate change seriously.