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.
Jan. 26, 2012 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Kate horner
As tens of thousands of people gathered last week for the opening of the National Association of Music Merchants’ annual trade show, I traveled to Anaheim, California to join musicians and other environmental groups to call on the industry t...
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Dec. 12, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Kate horner
If I looked up the accepted UN policies and procedure, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t find a “huddle” anywhere in there as a usual means to craft international law, but sure enough, in the wee hours of the Durban climate talks that ...
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Dec. 7, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Kate horner
With only two days left in the Durban climate negotiations, we are frighteningly close to locking in low ambition and inaction for the next decade. The US, a consistent and major impediment to progress, thinks that what the world agreed last year ...
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Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate finance, Kate horner, Redd
Despite repeated promises that carbon markets would deliver significant sums of money to help reduce emissions from deforestation, the carbon market has largely faltered. The growth of the carbon market has stalled and declined in the past 12...
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Nov. 28, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Climate finance, Kate horner
The night before international climate negotiations began here in Durban on the coast of South Africa, a violent storm whipped through the city, collapsing houses and flooding buildings. In a tragic foretelling of the climate chaos to come, six pe...
Read More »Jun. 14, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate finance, Kate horner, Redd
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 13, 2011 In the first UN negoti...
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Jun. 10, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman and Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Kate horner
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Eric Hoffman and Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 10, 2011 Dange...
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Jun. 9, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate finance, Kate horner
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Marjorie Williams, International Gender and Trade Network, Janet Redman, Inst...
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Jun. 8, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate finance, Kate horner
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 8, 2011 Today in Bonn, delegate...
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Jun. 6, 2011 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate finance, Kate horner
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth U.S. June 6, 2011 Far from the Hotel Maritim...
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