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Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton RE: Robin Hood Tax
Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding misinformation spread internationally by State Department representatives about the Robin Hood Tax.
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Starting off right: Making climate finance publicly accountable at the Green Climate Fund
On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN’s Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins…
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Submission by Friends of the Earth U.S. and ActionAid USA to the UNFCCC
Letter on (1) private finance and the $100 billion question, and (2) addressing tax avoidance and evasion in developed countries in the context of long term finance.
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Robin Hood hits home — Let’s give him a warm welcome!
Why is the Incredible Hulk smoothly whistling on YouTube as he takes a dollar and draws a Robin Hood mask on George Washington’s mug? Because Mark Ruffalo — who plays the green superhero in th…
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Robin Hood, nurses, Woody Guthrie and Friends of the Earth: Let’s tax Wall Street!
For almost 15 years now, I’ve been doing human rights and environmental advocacy work — most of it in Washington, D.C. Just about anyone who has done that sort of thing for more than a decade…
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117 groups urge Climate Investment Funds to sunset, support for Green Climate Fund
As the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual Spring Meetings get underway, 117 organizations from around the world today urged government funders of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds…
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What’s in store for the Green Climate Fund in 2012?
With the first board meeting of the Green Climate Fund scheduled for the end of April, now is a good time to provide a bit of a primer and update on the GCF. The lead-up to the Green Climate Fund Sinc…
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Letter to GCF Secretariat
Letter to the GCF Secretariat from Indigenous Peoples and support organizations with comments and recommendations on the modalities for selection, activities and roles of observers and active observer…
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Civil Society Recommendations
Observer participation in the proceedings of the Board of the Green Climate Fund, Preliminary responses for initial consultation,
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The Green Climate Fund’s No-Objection Procedure and Private Finance: Lessons Learned from Existing Institutions
The purpose of the no-objection procedure is two-fold: (i) to facilitate genuine country ownership and (ii) to ensure that the people living within a country, particularly individuals and communities…