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.
Dec. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate finance, Redd
Friends of the Earth in the news this week As developed countries have fled the Kyoto Protocol like rats from a sinking ship, climate financing continues to be central among the issues on the table at the UNFCCC COP18 negotiations taking place rig...
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Oct. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Adam russell, Redd
Protecting tropical forests is important in the fight against global climate change, but Indigenous Peoples are lining up against what they consider a false solution to the climate crisis. As part of California’s commitment to reduce global...
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Michelle chan, Redd
This week, Friends of Earth, along with 30 other organizations based in California, urged Governor Brown to prevent international REDD carbon credits (carbon credits generated from efforts to prevent deforestation and forest degradation in tropica...
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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...
Read More »Jun. 20, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate finance, Nick berning, Redd
Read more about the international climate negotiations: Read informational briefs about pressing issues at Bonn Huffington Post: Will Bonn Climate Talks Reflect a Dramatically Changed World? Deutsche Welle: Kyoto successor looks bleak at Bonn c...
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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