Submitted on December 14, 2012
This post was co-authored with Wendi Bevins, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy Program.
If you asked five different people what they think “equity” means, you’d probably get five different...
Submitted on November 26, 2012
This post was co-authored with Kate DeAngelis, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy Program.
Ambition is a word often used in the context of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
Submitted on October 5, 2012
This post was co-authored with Wendi Bevins, an intern in WRI’s Climate and Energy Program.
On September 25, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate...
Submitted on September 6, 2012
It’s a long way from Bonn to Bangkok—literally and figuratively. It would be a great understatement to suggest that the June session of the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany were acrimonious. In Bonn...
Submitted on August 30, 2012
The U.N.’s current round of climate change negotiations continues this week in Bangkok. While the last intersessional in Bonn yielded more lows than highs, the Bangkok talks have the potential to...
Submitted on June 1, 2012
Two weeks ago, my girlfriend and I left Washington for two very different dates with international climate action. She headed to Indonesia to work with women farmers who are reintroducing native,...
Submitted on May 16, 2012
Since the conclusion of the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa (COP 17) last year, there has been robust debate on the merits of its outcomes.
Some argue that the deal – including a new...
Submitted on December 16, 2011
Written with analysis from Athena Ballesteros, Louise Brown, Florence Daviet, Crystal Davis, Aarjan Dixit, Kelly Levin, Heather McGray, Remi Moncel, Clifford Polycarp, Kirsten Stasio, Fred Stolle,...
Submitted on December 5, 2011
Three years ago, I attended a performance of Athol Fugard’s powerful play “My Children! My Africa!” Set in South Africa at the end of apartheid, the play deals with a conflict over the most effective...
Submitted on November 26, 2011
Are our current efforts to avert dangerous climate change, safeguard the development aspirations of vulnerable communities, and catalyze the transition to a low-carbon future sufficient? One of the...
Submitted on November 17, 2011
The thousands of delegates preparing to descend on Durban for COP17 should read Robert F. Kennedy’s famous “Day of Affirmation” speech en route. They will discover a call to action as powerful today...
Submitted on September 29, 2011
The American author Tom Peters once wrote “if a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade”. Next week’s UNFCCC session in Panama is the penultimate stop in what has been a long and at...
Submitted on June 13, 2011
Eleanor Roosevelt once said that the United Nations is “a bridge upon which we can meet and talk”. The bridge builders were sorely missing during the first week of the latest round of climate...
