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WRI and UNEP Submission to the UNFCCC For Increasing Ambition

By Remi Moncel on March 13, 2012

Read the submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on increasing ambition from WRI and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Download the Submission (PDF, 154 Kb)

Transparency and Accountability (MRV) in the Durban Climate Deal

By Remi Moncel and Kelly Levin on February 13, 2012
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The Durban climate deal reached in December 2011 marked an important milestone in the design of a system to measure, report, and verify (MRV) countries’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their a

Boosting International Action on Climate Change: Over 130 Options as a Start

By Remi Moncel on December 6, 2011
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This post was written in collaboration with Kevin McCall.

Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV): The Task at Hand at COP17 Durban

By Remi Moncel on November 23, 2011
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You can’t manage what you can’t measure. This is one reason it is important to track countries’ individual and aggregate progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Top Three Climate and Energy Topics for Obama’s Visit to India

By Remi Moncel, Neelam Singh and Kirsten Stasio on November 4, 2010

What should President Obama and Prime Minister Singh focus on when they talk about energy and climate change? Our top three.

Ecuador Proposes Leaving Oil Untapped to Protect Forests and People

By Remi Moncel on January 29, 2009

The Government of Ecuador recently announced that it is pursuing efforts to leave the oil under Yasuni National Park untapped to protect the rainforest, its species and its inhabitants.

President Obama's Open Government: Welcome First Steps

By Remi Moncel on January 23, 2009

On his first full day in office, President Obama issued an Executive Order and several memoranda on transparency and participation in the Federal Government.

Keeping the Promise of Transparency

By Remi Moncel on November 12, 2008
Location: Washington, DC

WRI has joined with 70 organizations to issue the 21st Century Right to Know Agenda Report in support of government transparency and accountability in the incoming Obama administration.

Presiding with Principle: Restoring Good Governance in the U.S. Executive Branch

By Remi Moncel on October 10, 2008

How will the President-elect run his administration? The answer to this question will have direct impacts on the American people’s health, safety and the quality of their environment.

Connecting Environmental Protection and the Rule of Law

By Remi Moncel on September 16, 2008

On the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, 35 human rights groups and WRI call on the presidential candidates to reaffirm the fundamental legal framework that makes environmental protection possible.

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