Blog Posts

Shannon Gibson

Don’t applaud the climate summit’s loss and damage fund deal just yet

Shortly after the opening ceremony of the 2023 United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai, delegates of nations around the world rose...

Giancarlo Ceja

The Loss & Damage Fund: History and updates throughout COP28

Decades after the initial calls for its creation, an agreement for a Loss & Damage Fund to fund the climate damages for developing...

Katie McCabe

Top Takeaways: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Week 2023

Representatives and stakeholders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for their second annual Climate...

Will Erens

How Carbon Trading and Carbon Pricing Differ — and Why It Matters For a Warming Planet

On Nov. 30, the world will descend on the deserts of Dubai for an annual climate summit with much fanfare, protest and policy. Debates...

Abhay Manchala

When Climate Agendas Get Set Outside the UNFCCC: World Trade Organization (WTO)

This series has been a look at the many outside influences within the global environmental regime that influence climate policy. Until...

Will Erens

Of Power and Energy: How Utilities Can Shape Our Green Future

As Tropical Storm Fay barreled down the Florida coast in August 2008, residents across the state boarded up their windows, sandbagged...

Giancarlo Ceja & Cora Sverdrup

Misplaced Responsibility: Global North stalls as South Pushes for Progress at the 2023 SDG Summit

What we saw during the 2023 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals summit was anything but “action and delivery.” In a series of...

Eesha Rangani

From Delhi to a Greener Tomorrow: G20 2023

The G20 Summit of 2023 was a milestone event in the history of global economic discourse, guided by the vision of "One Earth, One Family,...