Can the Climate Movement Learn From Its Mistakes?
A new analysis by Yale law student Nate Loewentheil diagnoses the failures of cap-and-trade in 2010. Listen up, climate organizers.
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Yale President Richard C. Levin once asked, “How do we prevent the continued consumption of fossil fuels from warming our planet to the point that ecosystems are destroyed, food supplies are threatened, and rising sea levels force hundreds of millions …
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“We Are All Neighbors with Joined Doors”: Climate Justice and the UNFCCC
ednesday, December 5th: deep within the bizarre landscape of minarets, oil refineries that stretch out into the sandy horizon, and a wildly ad hoc, opulent, and strangely 1970’s-going-on-the-future skyline, the annual UNFCCC conferencemoves along in its second week. In …
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The Hunt for Accountability, From Rio to Doha
Before I started my graduate studies in August, I was campaigning incessantly with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to drive the Rio+20 Earth Summit process towards real actions and accountability. I am carrying on the same mission to the …