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The Paris Agreement and China’s Climate Leadership

Expert BlogBarbara Finamore
In the midst of its weeklong National Day holiday – also known as Golden Week – China has another reason to celebrate today. Seventy-two countries, accounting for nearly 57% of global GHG emissions, have now formally joined the Paris climate…

Bipartisan Bill Offers Solutions for Flood-Prone Properties

Expert BlogRob Moore
Bipartisan legislation introduced last week by Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), the Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act (H.R. 6196), would take a much needed step toward confronting the problem of continually subsidizing the rebuilding of flood-prone properties…

What It Took to Create the Atlantic’s First Marine National Monument

NRDC in ActionConnecticut, Massachusetts, United StatesMelissa Denchak
After years of work by NRDC and its partners, about 5,000 square miles of ocean—with massive canyons, majestic underwater mountains, and more than 1,000 species—have received permanent protection.

Green Finance Approaches and Criteria: The G20 and China

Expert BlogBarbara Finamore, Yan Wang
At the close of the 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou last month, the G20’s Green Finance Study Group (GFSG), a group of countries and relevant international institutions chaired by China and the UK with support from the United Nations Environment…