Tag: climate finance

Financing & Addressing Climate Change: Root Problems with Climate Finance

Bohdan Zymka December 1, 2012 0 Comments
by Bogdan Zymka Whether you like it or hate it with every atom in your being, money is what makes the world go-round these days.  It is the same with climate finance; you can’t have implementation without the means to do so. Climate change has already caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage and is likely to cause billions more in the coming years. Besides the damage that has...

Cross-post from the Washington Spectator: New Voices-Climate Change Adaptation

greeder November 21, 2012 0 Comments
This blog was originally published on the Washington Spectator's website, check out their blog at  http://washingtonspectator.org/index.php/Blog/latest.html New Voices: On Climate Change Adaptation November 16, 2012 | Graham Reeder New Voices is The Washington Spectator's blog series by guest writers under age 25. The series spotlights a diversity of...

Financing Adaptation: Who Will Pay?

Nathan Thanki July 18, 2012 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki and Graham Reeder Given that we’re now experiencing another summer of bizarre weather events, including deadly heat waves, wildfires, and storms in the US, and increased chances of another El Nino year, many in the US are finally opening their eyes to what scientists have been telling them for years: climate change is real, but not only that, it is happening now. Climate...

Sustainable Development And The Political Treadmill Of No Will

jvelez July 2, 2012 0 Comments
By Julian Velez Rio+20 was supposed to renew political commitment to Sustainable Development (SD) and poverty eradication by integrating the social, economic and environmental “pillars,” or dimensions. It was a conference that was supposed to build on previous agreements to bring the Sustainable Development agenda to the next step. But the spotlight of the conference was taken by the...

The After Taste Of Non-Wins

jvelez June 26, 2012 0 Comments
By  Julian Velez  Civil Society, represented by Major Groups (MGs) within the conference, could not come to an agreement --  in informal consultations there where two attempts to create a united MG statement that fell apart because the perspectives of what was needed and the level of ambition that was required were very varied. The organization of the conference here at Rio...