Environment and Ecology
The Friendship Office promotes policies that address the structural causes of climate change. We realize that the valiant community based development and reforestation efforts that we support can literally be swept away without binding global policies.

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Thu, 05/01/2014 - 12:34pm | admin

Climate change: a challenge that goes beyond politics
Elizabeth Peredo Beltran*
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Tue, 01/28/2014 - 10:18am | admin

On Eve of State of the Union Address, Powerful Message from Obama’s Base about Fast Track for TPP: Don’t Even Think About It
 Over 550 groups signed the attached letter opposing Fast Track.
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Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:57pm | jennya

After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet
The post-summit pledge was an admission of defeat against consumer capitalism. But we can still salvage the natural world.
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Tue, 01/28/2014 - 3:04pm | admin

Climate leaks: preview of the 5th report of the IPCC
A draft of the new report of the IPCC was leaked to the press.  As well as reiterating well-known threats, the document revives a theme that merits analysis:  the transfer of northern emissions to the South.   Written by Gerardo Honty
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Fri, 10/18/2013 - 1:00pm | admin

GLOBAL CLIMATE RISK INDEX 2013 WHO SUFFERS MOST FROM EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS?
The Global Climate Risk Index 2013 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent available data from 2011 as well as for the period 1992-2011 were taken into account.
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