Sustainable Energy and Economy Network

The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North-South relations.

The Story of Cap and Trade

The Story of Cap & Trade looks at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. The staff of IPS' Sustainable Energy and Economy Network assisted with the script for this fast-paced, fact-filled video. If you've heard about cap and trade, but aren't sure how it works (or who benefits), watch this film or read this op-ed by IPS Fellow, Daphne Wysham.

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Recent Work

Media Advisory
Japanese Parliamentarian Kuniko Tanioka briefs press and NGOs on Fukushima nuclear station, worsening situation, and what has gone underreported from Japan
May 9, 2012 - Japanese Parliamentarian Ms. Kuniko Tanioka is one of the few Japanese politicians willing to speak out publicly and critically on the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and her government’s response to it. She is joined by Robert Alvarez, IPS senior scholar, in a briefing on Fukushima to occur May 10.

Op-Ed
Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever
February 20, 2012 - As the climate changes, a deadly disease is on the rise. By Daphne Wysham, published in YubaNet and Fire Dog Lake

Commentary
Obama's Energy and Environment Budget: Lofty Goals in Need of a Financial and Political Base
February 15, 2012 - President Barack Obama's 2013 budget proposal offers a window into which battles he aims to fight and which ones he intends to avoid. Here's a breakdown of the energy policies embedded in the proposed budget. By Daphne Wysham

Op-Ed
Fracking Perils
February 6, 2012 - The ongoing bonanza in the U.S. hydraulic fracturing industry marks a dangerous misstep on the road to U.S. energy independence. By Daphne Wysham, published in Common Dreams and Counterpunch and The Ellsworth (KS) Independent-Reporter

Op-Ed
A Recipe for Climate Action
January 16, 2012 - Just a pinch of fear can go a long way. By Janet Redman, published in Straight Goods and Progressive Charlestown (RI)

Blog
Durban Diary: The Waiting Game
December 9, 2011 - As the doors on government meetings swing shut, Janet ponders whether our future will be one of ecological stability or planetary chaos. By Janet Redman

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March 28, 2012

Oil Voice
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One of them is Janet Redman, co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, who provides analysis of the international financial institutions' energy investment and carbon finance activities.

'It is gut-wrenching and kind of sickening that Palau has been put in this position by those who have developed on the backs of the country's future,' Redman told Reuters in an interview. 'We are contributing to the process of an entire country disappearing,' she said.
March 1, 2012

Fox News
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“I don’t think there is a global appetite right now for new institutions … or a world environmental organization like we have, say, with the World Trade Organization,” said Janet Redman, co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.

“There are a lot of places - especially the oceans and food security - where everyone is saying that doing this piecemeal is not going to address the bigger sense of these environmental issues.”

But on the whole, she said, global government probably won’t work.

“I think everyone agrees this is not the right time,” Redman told FoxNews.com.
February 21, 2012

Fire Dog Lake features article “Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever”
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February 20, 2012

YubaNet features article “Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever”
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February 10, 2012

The Ellsworth (KS) Independent-Reporter features article “Fracking Perils”
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February 9, 2012

Counterpunch features article “Fracking Perils”
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February 6, 2012

Common Dreams features article “Fracking Perils”
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January 31, 2012

Red Pepper Magazine
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Canada, Russia and Japan confirmed their intention to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, while ‘the remaining countries (New Zealand, Australia, and EU members) pushed their favourite loopholes and exceptions’, says Janet Redman of the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies, as a result of which ‘it’s hard to see what the use would be of enforcing the treaty anyway.’
January 30, 2012

KBOO-FM 90.7
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Janet Redman speaks with Bill Resnick of KBOO about the hopes and failures of the Durban Climate Summit, and where to go from here: "One thing we were all hoping... is that okay, this is important, leaders are having to recognize that climate change is real and happening, we're going to see some shift at the international levels," said Redman. "And what happened was very dissapointing. In fact it was astonishingly disappointing."
January 30, 2012

KBOO Portland, Oregon
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What could be done to bring energy production into line with the survival of life on this planet? This is both a political and a technology question, and both are discussed here by Janet Redman and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.