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Climate and agriculture policy monitor

At IATP, we’ve been writing, analyzing and advocating around the intersection of climate and agriculture policy for more than a decade. The recent International Panel on Climate Change report left no doubt of the urgency for immediate action. Governments at all levels will need to respond.

Uprooted Episode 50 - State Climate Referenda

Josh talks with Ben Lilliston, Director of Rural Strategies and Climate Change, about climate change initiatives on the ballot on November 6, and other activities some states are up to in addressing climate change. Update: It appears both measure discussed in the podcast have failed. 

Climate and agriculture: Recommendations for California's next governor

As states take the lead in responding to climate change, food and farming is often an afterthought. California is an exception. The state has included agriculture programs as part of its climate policy from the beginning. IATP spoke with Jeanne Merrill, the California Climate and Agriculture Network’s policy director, about the report’s findings and lessons for other states.  

Arizona's Clean Air Initiative-What does it mean for agriculture?

“We harness the sun to grow our food and feed our families, but we’re wasting the sun’s potential to power our homes, schools and businesses with clean solar energy,”

Corporate responsibility and hurricane damage

Farmers and rural communities are now routinely hit with extreme weather events in this new age of climate change. As governments at the national, state and local level grapple with these challenges and costs, they should consider the financial responsibility of corporations who have knowingly increased our climate risk.

Hogwash and its aftermath: Climate change and corporate accountability after Hurricane Florence

The aftermath of Hurricane Florence in North Carolina demonstrates what climate change will increasingly do to communities and landscapes, especially when governments are unprepared.

Washington state's proposed carbon fee: What it could mean for agriculture

“What happens when extreme weather becomes more frequent? Laborers will lose work hours due to this,” a farmworker told Community to Community at a Vancouver, Washington listening session on climate change last year.

More than 300 State Legislators Urge Removing Corporate-Friendly ISDS Provisions from NAFTA

Earlier this week, U.S. state legislators released a letter signed by 312 lawmakers from all 50 states urging an end to the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system in the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Maine State Legislators Endorse Removing ISDS from NAFTA

The Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission, a legislator-run, bipartisan governmental body, recently sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in strong support of his focus on limiting the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, and calling for ISDS to be removed in its entirety from NAFTA.

Uprooted, Episode 27: The State of the States on Climate and Agriculture

Last week, IATP launched the report, From the Ground Up: The State of the States on Climate Adaptation for Agriculture. Josh talks with Lachlan Anathasiou, who interned at IATP in summer 2017 about the research he did on the report and the report's findings.