Climate Change

Climate finance must add up

One of the most contentious issues at the global climate talks taking place this week in Tianjin, China continues to be finance: how to fund efforts to adapt to climate change and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The global financial crisis has made these discussions even more challenging as developed countries like the U.S. struggle with rising deficits.

Civil Society Letter to the U.N. Advisory Group on Climate Change Finance

At the global climate talks in Tianjin, IATP, along with 25 civil society organizations, sent a letter to the co-chairs of the U.N. Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) outlining our recommendations for climate finance.

Climate finance can't afford carbon markets

A high-level advisory group to the United Nations, the Advisory Group on Climate Change Finance (AGF) will outline its draft proposals this week for financing efforts to combat global climate change. Carbon markets are expected to be central to their recommendations.

Climate finance can’t afford carbon markets

Tianjin, China – A high-level advisory group to the United Nations will outline its draft proposals this week for financing efforts to combat global climate change. Carbon emissions markets are expected to be central in their recommendations.

Carbon markets: A reliable and practical source of climate finance?

Remarks of Jim harkness, president, IATP United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Tianjin, China

Trusting in Dark (Carbon) Markets? The UN High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance

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Farmers’ new normal

Minneapolis, September 29, 2010* — The Minnesota River near Jordan is expected to reach its fifth-highest crest at 32.7 feet on Tuesday. Jordan and much of the rest of southern Minnesota were hit with some 10 inches of rain last week—flooding houses, farm fields, and shutting down highways and bridges.

Radio Sustain: July 1, 2010

Roger Doiron, former IATP Food and Society Fellow, is asking everyone to declare food independence this July 4 by eating locally. Frances Moore Lappé and her daughter Anna Lappé discuss diet, climate change and intergenerational solutions.

The New Climate Debt: Carbon Trading Wrapped in a Green Bond Proposal

As combined economic entities, members of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) exceed the size of most governments. So, when IETA made a new financing proposal just prior to last week's UN global climate talks in Bonn, attention was paid.

Climate change and the World Cup

To be in Brazil during the World Cup of futbol (soccer) is to see both a massive outpouring of national pride and mass marketing of the very first order. Museums will change their opening hours and churches will change the times they offer mass on any day that Brazil plays. Brazil will host the World Cup 2014.