Environment

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.

Biotech in Africa

The Des Moines Register published a 7-part series on Africa by reporter Philip Brasher who traveled to Kenya and South Africa to obtain information for the series. It focused on corn (maize in Africa) and the role of biotechnology, both the political and yield aspects, in providing food for sub-Sahara Africa.

Water and the climate connections

Last week, the Feria del Agua—a water festival and fair—marked the 10th anniversary of the water wars that thwarted attempts to privatize water services in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Speculating on Carbon Fact Sheet

This fact sheet is a summary of "Speculating on Carbon: The Next Toxic Asset" which was one of a series of issue briefing papers IATP produced for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen. A Spanish translation is also included below.  

Five actions steps on bottled water

IATP's Shiney Varghese gives us five things we can do as individuals and in our communities to reduce bottled water use. 1. If you are concerned about the quality of your local water:

Bottling water, boxing in communities

The release of the new video, ‘The story of bottled water,” on this World Water Day (2010) got me thinking.

Agriculture Sustainability

A critical look at the what the term sustainable agriculture has come to mean since becoming popular in the 1970s. This article by Dennis Keeney appeared in Prairie Fire, March 2010.

Big Price, Little Benefit

Imagine the federal government chucking $2 billion down the Mississippi River. Wouldn’t happen, right?

Trading carbon emissions: Turning a liability into an asset?

Accountants are trying to decide whether credits for trading carbon dioxide are assets or whether they are liabilities unless and until firms comply with progressively more stringent annual limits on their greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S.

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