Years of Living Dangerously is a new documentary series about climate change. Broadcast in the US by Showtime, the nine episodes feature Hollywood stars presenting different aspects of climate change.
Tag: Conservation International
Carbon markets are not providing “long-term, scaled-up, predictable, new and additional finance”
Two stories about the current failure of carbon trading as a way of raising money to address climate change: First, the Adaptation Fund, which has seen its income from a tax on carbon credits dry up; Second, an exchange between Conservation International and the World Bank, which are both pro-carbon trading, but only one seems…

Conservation International’s desperate SOS call to bail out REDD
Conservation International’s desperate SOS call: Too many REDD credits, too little demand. Falling prices, falling sales.
Harrison Ford upsets Indonesia’s Minister of Forestry by asking him about … deforestation
Zulkifli Hasan, Indonesia’s Minister of Forestry, made the headlines last week when he said he was “shocked” by 71-year-old actor Harrison Ford’s questions about deforestation. Perhaps Zulkifli had forgotten the scale of the problem in Indonesia.
Naomi Klein: Why aren’t environmental groups divesting from fossil fuels?
“If it’s wrong to wreck the climate, it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.” That’s the slogan of the Fossil Free Movement, a campaign started by Bill McKibben and 350.org to persuade “educational and religious institutions, city and state governments, and other institutions that serve the public good” to divest from fossil fuels.