Karen Orenstein, International Finance Coordinator, and Kate Horner, International Climate and Energy Campaigner, are in Poznan, Poland, where they are working to influence the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We are working for a just and effective global climate deal, which would secure emissions reductions commitments from industrialized countries and funding for developing countries to acquire clean technology, adjust to climate impacts, and protect forests. Read the Blog here | Pictures from Poznan | The Road to Copenhagen | Friends of the Earth International's Blog

Greening Chinese Banks

Friends of the Earth has just released a new report, entitled The Green Evolution, Environmental Policies and Practice in China’s Banking Sector, which overviews the efforts to green Chinese finance since the Chinese government released new environmental regulations for financial institutions. Chinese banks are playing an increasingly important role in financing large infrastructure and natural resource projects throughout the world, often without the social and environmental standards necessary to protect local communities and ecosystems. The Green Evolution is an update to our 2007 report, Time to Go Green.

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Don't Dump on Nevada

Friends of the Earth, along with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and the Sierra Club, launched a coordinated media campaign last week warning that transporting dangerous nuclear waste to the proposed Yucca Mountain waste dump is a recipe for disaster.

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