Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Apr. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Karen orenstein, Tax, Wall street
Though a number of wealthy countries attending a State Department-convened climate finance ministerial meeting on mobilizing private money have been trying to escape their obligation to use public funds to help the world’s poor confront the ...
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Apr. 9, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Ifc, Karen orenstein, Wall street, World bank
New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance. This invitation-o...
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Feb. 4, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Biofuels, Climate change, Forests, Human rights, Jeff conant
Science and social movements agree: Palm oil expansion is bad for people and bad for the planet Just a few years ago, palm oil entered the spotlight as one of the best and brightest options for a “drop-in” biofuel feedstock (a type of...
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Jan. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate change, Erich pica
Often, I am asked to assess the environmental movement. Will we win the fight against the fossil fuel industry? Can we prevent the worst impacts of climate disruption? Who’s out there fighting the good fight for a healthy and just world? My...
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Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Earth budget, Karen orenstein, Tax, Wall street
Robin Hood, a champion of ordinary people, made a stop in Washington, D.C. this week -- to put his hat in the ring to replace outgoing U.S. Treasury Sectary Tim Geithner, a champion of Wall Street. Mr. Hood is running on a platform of taxing Wall ...
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Dec. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Adam russell, Climate change
At the height of Superstorm Sandy there was a five-foot surge of water rushing down Don's street. Then, in the middle of the storm, a fire sparked in a neighbor’s house and, by the next day, most of his block was in ashes. “The fire s...
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Nov. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber, Climate change, Keystone xl, Subsidies, Tax
Last week it sounded a lot like the conservative think thank American Enterprise Institute cares more about addressing climate change then President Barack Obama. It certainly seems more willing to find solutions. AEI hosted a symposium on a carb...
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Nov. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Climate change, Erich pica
This week, Hurricane Sandy fulfilled what many of us had been dreading as we watched it move up the coast: its landfall on the coast of New Jersey and a merger with a massive cold front left millions in the East without power, shelter, or worse. A...
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