Charlie Miller is a senior writer at Environmental Defense Fund. I wanted to hear his take on global warming politics and the forecast for 2010. This is the first in a series of thought leader interviews I’ll be conducting for Widmeyer.com.
Stacia Tipton: You’ve been working on climate issues for decades. What’s the key lesson from [...]
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Copenhagen and Beyond
By Stacia Tipton, Vice President

The United Nations Conference on Global Climate Change will likely dominate the headlines for the next several weeks. A December 4 PR Week story on the conference highlights the media considerations related to corporate engagement on climate change issues and includes a quote from Widmeyer Public Affairs SVP Ben Finzel on the importance of communicating [...]
We spend a fair amount of time talking about messaging with our clients. What’s the best way to explain your point of view? Who are your audiences and what do they need to know? Why should others care about what you have to say?
The Obama Administration has provided myriad examples of both good and bad messaging in recent months. With such an ambitious agenda, they were bound to make at least some mistakes. And when you look at how they’ve dealt with climate change legislation in the two months since the House passed its version of the bill, you can see what I mean.