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.
- June 4, 2012
Guam PDN
Visit the publisher's websiteRobert Alvarez, a former senior Energy Department official in the Clinton administration, has issued a similar warning, saying if an accident causes the Unit 4's pool of spent fuel rods to drain, it could release of 10 times as much radioactivity as Chernobyl, the Russian nuclear plant disaster of 1986.
- May 4, 2012
The Hill
Visit the publisher's websiteThe PR effort drew quick condemnation. “How low will #Heartland go? This shows pure desperation,” said Daphne Wysham, co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, over Twitter.
- March 28, 2012
Oil Voice
Visit the publisher's websiteOne 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
Visit the publisher's website“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”
Visit the publisher's website • See the article - February 20, 2012
YubaNet features article “Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever”
Visit the publisher's website • See the article - February 10, 2012
The Ellsworth (KS) Independent-Reporter features article “Fracking Perils”
Visit the publisher's website • See the article - February 9, 2012
Counterpunch features article “Fracking Perils”
Visit the publisher's website • See the article - February 6, 2012
Common Dreams features article “Fracking Perils”
Visit the publisher's website • See the article - January 31, 2012
Red Pepper Magazine
Visit the publisher's websiteCanada, 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.’
Janet Redman
Daphne Wysham
Oscar Reyes
