Publication archives

Dec 8, 2023

The clock is ticking: climate change and voluntary carbon markets

Dr. Steve Suppan

In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the arms of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to Doomsday since the clock was started in 1947.

Doomsday clock is ticking on climate change

Dec 4, 2023

EU’s double standards on double counting

Sophie Scherger

At this year’s COP28, countries will try again to adopt rules for carbon offset trading, in particular, for removals, under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement.

Dec 1, 2023

Global Methane Pledge’s slow start

Ben Lilliston

Two years ago, more than 120 countries (now 150), led by the United States and European Union, signed the Global Methane Pledge at COP26.

Cows, Global Methane Pledge to be discussed at COP28

Nov 30, 2023

Centering food security in the fight to avert climate catastrophe: the UN FAO proposes a Roadmap

Sophia Murphy

Nov 30, 2023

Mitigating climate change risks in agriculture trade: Time for action at COP28

Calvin Manduna

The COP28 United Nations climate summit takes place against the backdrop of heightened alarm over the failure of the global community to meet climate targets and increasing evidence of the negative impact and economic costs of climate change on food production, food trade and food security.

Nov 27, 2023

Climate crisis demands urgent action, not empty promises, from governments at COP28

MINNEAPOLIS—As governments and civil society prepare to gather in Dubai for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP28), the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) calls for urgent meaningful commitments from global agri-food industries to c

Nov 27, 2023

IATP reacts to USMCA dispute panel ruling on Canada’s dairy supply management program

MINNEAPOLIS—A United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute panel ruled on Friday that Canada is not violating its trade obligations by limiting reduced-tariff dairy imports from the U.S. to maintain its domestic supply management system. A previous dispute over the same issue was decided in favor of the U.S. in 2022.

Nov 21, 2023

Carbon market design problems await COP28 delegates

Dr. Steve Suppan

The big-picture narratives in the foreground of 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), November 30-December 12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), provide necessary context to the intensively negotiated textual outcomes of COP28.