Janet Redman
Janet is co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, where she provides analysis of the international financial institutions’ energy investment and carbon finance activities. Her recent studies on the World Bank’s climate activities include World Bank: Climate Profiteer, and Dirty is the New Clean: A critique of the World Bank’s strategic framework for development and climate change. She has appeared on several radio programs and C-SPAN sharing positive visions for fair and equitable climate action in the United States and overseas. As a founding participant in the global Climate Justice Now! network, Janet is committed to bringing hard-hitting policy analysis into grassroots and grasstops organizing.
Before joining IPS, Janet was a visiting faculty member at the College of the Atlantic and directed the Watershed Initiative of the Center for Applied Human Ecology at the College. Her work in youth and women’s empowerment through community farming and sustainability has brought Janet from coastal Maine to the heart of Worcester, Massachusetts to Bangladesh.
Janet holds a Master’s Degree from Clark University in International Development and Social Change, where she focused her graduate research on regional trade integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont.
Recent Work
Op-Ed
Blame Game Leads to Climate Deadlock in Bonn
June 12 - What's at stake is perhaps the largest transfer of resources from the global south to the north in history. Published in AlterNet.
Commentary
Postcard From...Belem
February 20 - Creating new visions for the economy and climate at the World Social Forum. Published in Foreign Policy In Focus.
Magazine Article
Climate of Change
December 30 - Prospects for a new deal on climate change after the UN climate conference in Poland. Published in Red Pepper Magazine.