Publication archives

Oct 8, 2024

The UN carbon trading negotiations and carbon market fraud

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
Negotiators from 12 government members (“Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet Oct. 5-9 to try to agree on the terms of several texts required for Parties to begin selling greenhouse gas emissions reduction credits to “Non-Parties,” mostly private investors.
Smokestack with a foggy sky
Oct 7, 2024

The Complicated Challenge of Protecting Peru's Forests

by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand and directed by enormous agribusiness and finance interests.
Peru forests burning
Oct 7, 2024

The imperative for coherence: Deforestation and trade policies in Peru, the U.S. and EU

by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of agricultural commodities have come into focus. While they represent a fresh approach to a vexing intersection of problems, they can work at cross purposes with other policies.
Peru
Oct 3, 2024

Speaking on Factory Farms

by
Ben Lilliston
The Congressional staffer moved up in their chair and looked up from the notepad with a quizzical expression. These farmers were asking for more regulation of the meat industry? They didn’t like factory farming and what it was doing to rural communities? And they wanted the government to stop subsidizing this factory farm system for livestock and dairy?
A crowd of anti factory farm advocates speaking outside the Iowa state capitol
Oct 2, 2024

How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode One: Raising a Stink

by
Lilly Richard
Anna Karns
What is a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), and what does it mean that nearly all farm animals in the U.S. are now raised in them? Independent family farmers and rural communities are facing the brunt of these consequences, but they're not going to take it lying down.
How to Fight a Factory Farm
Oct 1, 2024

October is Farm to School and Early Care Month!

by
Nora Shields-Cutler
Farm to School and Farm to Early Care initiatives focus on three main tenets: local purchasing, gardening, and food and agriculture education.  
kids and corn
Sep 26, 2024

Comments to the USDA on the implementation of the SUSTAINS Act

by
Michael Happ
Ben Lilliston
The following comments were submitted to the U.S.
Sep 24, 2024

IATP statement on the CFTC approval of guidance to industry on voluntary carbon market credits

MINNEAPOLIS— On Sept. 19, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to approve final guidance to commodity exchanges planning to offer new derivatives contracts whose underlying assets are credits based on projects intended to reduce or remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.