Five Ways Using Stimulus Funds for Energy Efficiency Would Reduce Inequality and Protect the Planet
Any economic stimulus package must include an initiative to retrofit homes and public buildings for low-income communities and communities of color.
The Inequality Crisis Hiding Behind High Utility Bills
Low-income people and communities of color are disproportionately energy insecure. Here’s how energy efficiency policy can address the divide.
Sustainable Energy Access For All?
Experts discuss the role of renewable energy in alleviating global energy poverty during a panel at the spring IMF and World Bank Group meetings.
Cancun Agreement Succeeds in Meeting Low Expectations
They did it! After pre-announcing that no major decisions would result from Cancun talks and nearly two weeks of debates and discussions, the army of international climate change negotiators reached an agreement fully in line with the low expectations for it.
Is China Greening Africa?
Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that.
Dirty is the New Clean
A Critique of the World Bank’s Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change.