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5 Areas for Action to Set the Green Climate Fund on an Ambitious Path

By Clifford Polycarp and Louise Brown on October 6, 2013
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Expectations are running high as the Board of the Green Climate Fund prepares for its fifth meeting in Paris this week. As the scale of the global climate change challenge…

IMF Experts and Others Envision a World without Energy Subsidies

By Sarah Parsons on October 4, 2013
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The world continues to see the “costs” of fossil fuel use in the form of climate change impacts like heat waves, floods…

IPCC Report Delivers A Strong Message On Climate For Business Leaders

By Manish Bapna on October 4, 2013
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This post originally appeared on Forbes.com

An old Wall Street adage says “the market hates…

The Difficulty of Defining Adaptation Finance

By Pieter Terpstra on October 3, 2013
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This post was co-written with Abigail Ofstedahl, an intern with WRI’s Vulnerability and Adaptation Initiative.

While working on tracking adaptation…

How to Weave Ecosystem Services into Impact Assessments

By Florence Landsberg on October 2, 2013
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The Wayuu people in northern Colombia depend on shrubland for grazing their livestock. These herds serve as the Wayuus’ main source of income and food, and this is partly why they depend so heavily on the existence and condition of shrubland…

Conflicting Reporting Systems May Hinder Companies' Water Risk Strategies

By Tien Shiao and Paul Reig on October 1, 2013
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This post originally appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business’s Water hub blog.

Water risks such as floods,…

Global Leaders Highlight Actions Needed to Achieve Climate Justice

By David Waskow on September 30, 2013
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This post was co-written with Tara Shine, head of research and development at the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice.

It’s not every day that several former Heads of State, the leader of…

New Climate Action Report: U.S. Can Reach its Emissions-Reduction Goal, but Only With Ambitious Action

By Kristin Meek on September 27, 2013
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Yesterday, the Obama Administration released the sixth U.S. Climate Action Report (CAR6) for public review, to be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on…

STATEMENT: IPCC 5th Assessment Affirms Human Impact on Climate Change; Impacts Mounting Faster

September 27, 2013
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group 1 (WG1) portion of its fifth assessment of climate change.

World’s Carbon Budget to Be Spent in Three Decades

By Kelly Levin on September 27, 2013
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) has delivered an overwhelming consensus that climate change impacts are accelerating, fueled by human-caused emissions….

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