Oct. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
As California lawmakers prepare to launch the state’s cap and trade program as part of its Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB32, indigenous leaders traveled to Sacramento to urge officials not to include an international forest-based carbon...
Read More »Oct. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Leaders of indigenous forest peoples warned today that California’s proposed carbon credits trading scheme – intended to help reduce global warming – could in fact threaten the survival of those who live there.
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Oct. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
“These are the first international trade disputes which create the potential for conflict between a nation’s commitments under the WTO and its obligations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It rais...
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Sep. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
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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