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.
Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
The third meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund wrapped up last week. Though “paradigm shift” emerged as the new catch-phrase of GCF discourse -- as the fund’s governing instrument calls for a “paradigm shift tow...
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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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Nov. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
Existential crises usually kick in mid-life, as one wakes and wonders: what is my purpose in life? Why am I here, and where am I going? Though still in its infancy, the Green Climate Fund, a new institution of the United Nations Framework Conventi...
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Sep. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
Yesterday, Friends of the Earth sent a letter signed by 63 U.S. organizations, to Secretary of State Clinton regarding misinformation spread internationally by State Department representatives about financial transaction taxes (also known as the R...
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Aug. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN’s Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. -- along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies -- has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every de...
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Jul. 26, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Karen orenstein, World bank
World Bank Group loans for coal. Subsidizes multinational industry on backs of the poor. Devastates local livelihoods. Degrades air, land and water. Sound familiar? You could be forgiven if you thought we were talking about the Medupi coal-fired...
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Jun. 22, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Karen orenstein
Why is the Incredible Hulk smoothly whistling on YouTube as he takes a dollar and draws a Robin Hood mask on George Washington’s mug? Because Mark Ruffalo -- who plays the green superhero in the movie The Avengers -- stars in a video to kic...
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May. 30, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Karen orenstein
For almost 15 years now, I’ve been doing human rights and environmental advocacy work -- most of it in Washington, D.C. Just about anyone who has done that sort of thing for more than a decade in the belly of the beast (a.k.a, the nation&rsq...
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Apr. 19, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Karen orenstein
As the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual Spring Meetings get underway, 117 organizations from around the world today urged government funders of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds to pivot away from financing the CIFs and ...
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Apr. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Karen orenstein
Throughout the world, concerned individuals, groups and governments have been racking their brains, trying to figure out how on earth they’re going to be able to afford the costs of the climate crisis, made even worse by a climate of fiscal ...
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