At RNRF’s Congress on Adapting Food Production to a Changing Climate, Christopher Delgado with World Resources Institute presented on building financial support for international agricultural programs. [See Delgado’s Power Point presentation and video recording] Here, we revisit international funding for agriculture in more detail. According to a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, agricultural investment…

Howard Rosen U.S. Forest Service Volunteer Society of Wood Science & Technology Representative, RNRF Board of Directors Mike Maurer from Switzerland plays the alphorn. Nasser Makhoul, stringed wooden instrument player and maker, and Antoine Dawlatly, wooden drum player, both from Lebanon, provide musical accompaniment.    Nearly 3900 participants from 138 countries met at the WFC in…

Washington Round Table on Public Policy with Jennifer Morgan, Global Director of WRI’s Climate Program, on October 2, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Here, we present her insights on “The Road To and Through Paris,”  discussing the context in which the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Paris are taking place, the…

Arctic Council. What are the political and physical challenges and opportunities facing the region in terms of marine transportation, resource exploitation, environmental health and safety, and indigenous populations? Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress, authored by Congressional Research Service staff, provides a comprehensive overview of Arctic issues and U.S. Arctic policy. The…

[1] In the first half of September alone, there have been eight different wildfires in California.[2] The largest of these, the Valley Fire, has destroyed up to 1,000 buildings[3] and killed three people.[4] In mid-August, three firefighters were killed and four injured[5] while battling a Washington state fire, with property losses valued at more than…

Volume 29, No. 3 of the Renewable Resources Journal. As natural gas production has increased over the last decade, so too has the contention surrounding its production. What role should natural gas play in national climate policy? Three popularized beliefs about natural gas as part of the energy mix are that 1) gas is no…

Climate Change: A Risk Assessment, is one of three reports and articles featured in Volume 29, No. 3 of the Renewable Resources Journal (RRJ). The UK Foreign and Commonwealth commissioned this report as an independent contribution to the climate change debate. This issue of RRJ features a section of the report on climate change risks…

Energiewende” by Peter Sopher, energy policy analyst at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), is the first of three articles featured in Volume 29, No. 3 of the Renewable Resources Journal. Germany has emerged as a leader in the development and incorporation of renewable energy into a national energy grid. The Energiewende, defined as the transformation of…