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Posted On: Aug 30, 2010
The Connect U.S. Fund is seeking an Executive Director committed to our vision of responsible U.S. global engagement and the belief that the whole of NGO advocacy in support of this goal must be greater than the sum of its parts. The current Executive Director, Heather Hamilton, is leaving DC to fulfill her dream of sailing around the world. We expect to fill this position by mid-October. The Connect U.S. Fund is a foundation/NGO initiative that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement i...
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Posted On: Jul 29, 2010
This paper outlines a range of views among the civil society organizations listed below regarding climate financing options and is intended to contribute to the work of the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance.
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Posted On: May 25, 2010
This is a slide presentation from Cara Pike at the Social Capital Project, which includes a detailed summary of public opinion trends on global warming from 2007-2010.
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Posted On: Apr 21, 2010
Drawing on extensive global warming, behavior change, and communications research and practitioner expertise, the Climate Communications and Behavior Change guide distills this information into tools and recommendations that climate leaders can easily apply. It illustrates the challenges with existing communications efforts and provides tips on how to frame and deliver outreach efforts in a way that motivates changes in thinking and behavior. The guide also offers detailed advice and tips o...
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Posted On: Apr 12, 2010
Beyond Nuclear, based in Takoma Park, MD, is seeking a summer intern to work on multiple projects including short videos, social media, Capitol Hill briefings, research papers and media outreach. Please call 301.270.2209 to speak to Cindy Folkers or Linda Gunter about the position. Or send your inquiry and resume with a brief statement containing your view on nuclear energy to: info@beyondnuclear.org. This is an unpaid intern position, not paid empl...
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Posted On: Apr 07, 2010
The Project for Nuclear Awareness seeks an energetic, motivated intern to work with Ban All Nukes Generation-USA (Bang-USA), our national youth network for international disarmament. Applicants should be creative, interested in outreach, networking and educating youth, and be self-starters. We welcome all fresh, new ideas for reaching out to youth in the Philadelphia area and nationally this summer. This is our generation, and our world and we were the ones who inherited nuclear weapons, th...
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Posted On: Apr 07, 2010
The Project for Nuclear Awareness seeks an energetic, motivated intern to assist with development work including identifying grants, writing and editing letters of intent, outreach to individual donors, and other office tasks including, but not limited to, program and event planning. This is the perfect summer internship for a college student interested in working in a fun atmosphere at a small nonprofit. Applicants should be current undergraduate students with a background in economics, in...
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Posted On: Feb 24, 2010
by COHA Research Fellow Alexandra DeprezThis Council on Hemispheric Affairs research paper, by COHA Research Fellow Alexandra Deprez, has been under preparation for a year. In it, she brilliantly synthesizes current developments regarding environmentally-driven human migration -and more specifically, migration caused by the environmental manifestations of anthropogenic climate change- which are capable of exposing their potential harmful effects in Central and South America, as well as ...
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Posted On: Feb 22, 2010
Position Summary The Development Department of the World Resources Institute (WRI) is seeking a dynamic, energetic, highly motivated person to fill the position of Development Coordinator. This position will provide programmatic and administrative support to staff managing government sector partnerships and funding (including U.S. government, foreign aid agencies, and multilateral organizations). This position provides a valuable growth opportunity to learn about environment and devel...
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Posted On: Feb 04, 2010
The Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) in San Francisco is seeking to immediately hire an experienced water resources technical specialist to develop and implement water resource management innovations in both the California and global settings. NHI utilizes science, economics, policy and law to address today's most pressing freshwater issues. We have a large portfolio of cross-cutting projects that fall into four categories:Â Water Management: Since its inception, NHI has been a leader in the ...
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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010
 The world's great conflicts of the future will revolve around what is now and will increasingly become the most valuable and vital commodity to the preservation and sustainability of life on earth--not oil or gas, neither gold nor diamonds, but water. From the arid reaches of the Middle East to African rivers being dammed by a generation of ill-considered moves by larcenous potentates to the rapidly melting Arctic icecap, World Policy Journal provides answers to the critical question of how...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN: Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy. As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style. Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent. You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did. But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit. And Nancy would anticipate that. You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement. So...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Dec 16, 2009
This report from the European Climate Foundation describes how "Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) could be used as a financing mechanism for climate change mitigation and adaptation for least developed countries (LDCs)." The idea was announced by George Soros at a press conference at COP15 in Copenhagen on 10 December 2009. The document provides ackground information on SDRs, details how such an SDR based mechanism might function, and highlights some open questions and challenges.
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Posted On: Nov 24, 2009
A joint letter to President Obama from the Connect U.S. Fund, InterAction, USCAN and 1Sky. The letter calls on the President to build on his initiative at the G20 to end fossil fuel subsidies by initiating the phase out of those subsidies in the U.S., and to redirect those subsidies to international climate finance efforts.
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Posted On: Oct 07, 2009
The U.S. sustainability standard currently requires ethanol production to emit at least 20% less CO2 than the gasoline it is assumed to replace. In a new study, authors Harry de Gorter and David R. Just argue that sustainability standards for ethanol are, by definition, illogical and ineffective. Moreover, say de Gorter and Just, those standards divert attention from the contradictions and inefficiencies of ethanol import tariffs, tax credits, mandates, and subsidies, all of which exist wheth...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Posted On: Sep 28, 2009
This report from Oxfam stresses the importance of financing adaptation assistance to developing countries with "adequate, new, and additional funds," and through a streamlined international process.
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Posted On: Sep 18, 2009
In the fall issue of World Policy Journal, from inside the Iranian power elite, Kayhan Barzegar, a senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, offers the unique perspective of the determination of Iran's leadership to develop a "nuclear capability."Â In a Q&A with the editors, Hans Blix, the veteran International Atomic Energy Agency monitor and strategic thinker, answers some hard questions about whether a move toward a world without nuclear weaponsÂ...
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Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source: