Climate change is literally melting down the list of available host venues for the Winter Olympics.
Sochi’s Last Winter Olympics
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Green Climate Fund
Responding to Haiyan: A Typhoon Tax
We need a national climate response to match the scale of the Philippines typhoon and the extreme weather happening in other parts of the world.
Songdo Fallout: Is Green Finance a Red Herring?
From the 29th floor of Songdo, South Korea's jagged "G-Tower," one can glimpse the endless construction sites and vacant parks of an emerging “global business utopia,” to use the city’s adopted slogan. The newly built city, home to the UN's nascent Green Climate Fund...
What Next for the Green Climate Fund After the Doha Dud?
For those invested in the fate of the Green Climate Fund, the results of the 2012 Doha climate summit were mixed at best.
Durban’s Climate Debacle
I arrived at the UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa with the news fresh in my mind that 2010 was a record year for global warming pollution—and that if we don’t start reducing global emissions by 2017, we’re cooked.
I left Durban with a profound disappointment in the world’s leaders, and the growing conviction that it will take people putting their bodies on the line to steer society away from suicidal climate change.
World Bank Horning Its Way Into UN Fund for Helping Poor Nations Deal With Climate Change
More than 90 international environment, development, human rights, and anti-debt organizations from around the world want the World Bank excluded from Green Climate Fund for helping poor nations address climate change.