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Leveraging Private Finance: Lessons for climate and development effectiveness

This issue brief examines the Clean Development Mechanism's and the International Finance Corporation's track records of leveraging private finance in order to draw important lessons and recommendations for the design of the Green Climate Fund.

Recommendations to the Transitional Committee for the Green Climate Fund

Friends of the Earth U.S.'s input on the role of the private sector in the design of the Green Climate Fund.

"I think it’s dead for a long, long time." Warren Buffet on nuclear reactors

Print ad run in the Omaha-World Herald to challenge Warren Buffet on the Iowa rate hike legislation

Durban Assessment: A Climate Deal for the 1% or the 99%?

A civil society analysis of mitigation issues in the Durban talks

State the Forest Carbon Markets: A Critical Perspective

This briefing reviews the state of the existing forest carbon market as well as the costs and benefits of a carbon offset approach for developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities to inform policy debates at the Durban climate talks. Des

Letter to the House of Representatives

Opposition to H.R. 3210, the Retailers and Entertainers Lacey Implementation and Enforcement Fairness (RELIEF) Act

REDD in California’s cap and trade: undermining environmental and financial market integrity

The State of California is poised to become the first cap and trade market to accept forest carbon offset credits for compliance purposes. This briefing paper details the related problems and risks.

Letter to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

Re: Carbon fund risks undermining REDD readiness

Letter to Facility Management Team and Carbon Fund Participants

Letter objecting to the complete exclusion of observers from the second day of the Carbon Fund meeting in Barcelona.

Letter to the California Air Resources Board

Re: Conversion of “marginal lands” for the purpose of biofuel production.