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Testimony in Support of Maine LD 558 to Study Farm Alternatives

Senator Dill, Representative O’Neill and honorable members of the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. My name is Sharon Treat and I live in Hallowell.

Questions and Answers: Milking the Planet

IATP welcomes an informed debate on all our publications. Our June 2020 report, Milking the Planet: How Big Dairy is heating up the planet and hollowing rural communities, has generated strong responses from the dairy industry and conversations on social media.

WEBINAR: Water Financialization 101

On Wednesday, March 24 at 10:30 a.m., the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Blue Planet Project, Food & Water Watch and Transnational Institute hosted a webinar about water futures and financialization. 

The real value of water

Valuing Water is the theme of the 29th World Water Day this year. Valuing Water and Enabling Change also happened to be the theme of the Annual Report of the World Economic Forum’s 2030 Water Resources Group (now hosted by the World Bank) last year.

Politics of Hope

March 21st, 2021

Open Labour is hosting an action-packed day of debates, workshops and guest speakers on Sunday, March 21. With COVID-19, Brexit, climate change and the global rise of the far-right, politics feels quite bleak. Open Labour wants to create a "Politics of Hope": a new agenda within Labour taking on the immediate COVID-19 challenge and the long term challenges around climate change, automation, a broken electoral system, global inequality and more.

How Minnesota should consider climate change and approval of factory farms

Minnesota is off-track to meet its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals set in the 2007 Next Generation Energy Act. An important process for reviewing new projects could help put Minnesota back on track, and the state wants your input by the end of this month.

What does Biden's Environmental Agenda mean for Global Climate Governance?

March 18th, 2021

On March 18, the Social Environmental Platform from BRICS Policy Center of the Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil will host the webinar "What Biden's Environmental Agenda mean for Global Climate Governance?" in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) and FASE, with support of Institute for Climate and Society (ICS).