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.
- 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”
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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.’
- January 30, 2012
KBOO-FM 90.7
Visit the publisher's websiteJanet 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
Visit the publisher's websiteWhat 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.
- January 29, 2012
The Federal Times features report “America Is Not Broke”
Visit the publisher's website • See the reportThe Institute for Policy Studies puts the savings from overseas base closures as high as $184 billion over 10 years.
Janet Redman
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