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A High-Carbon Partnership? Chinese-Latin American Relations in a Carbon-Constrained World

3/19/2014

The Chinese financed project would replace Costa Rica's old national oil refinery.

By Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts

China’s rapidly increasing investment, trade and loans in Latin America may be entrenching high-carbon development pathways in the region, a trend scarcely mentioned in policy circles. High-carbon activities include the extraction of fossil fuels and other natural resources, expansion of large-scale agriculture and the energy-intensive stages of processing natural resources into intermediate goods.

This paper addresses three examples, including Chinese investments in Venezuela’s oil sector and a Costa Rican oil refinery, and Chinese investment in and purchases of Brazilian soybeans.

Venezuela’s 2014 climate summit faces credibility crisis

3/11/2014

By Guy Edwards, Michael Murphy and Paola Eisner

Deteriorating political stability, which has allegedly left 150 injured and 50 dead, does not bode well for Venezuela’s plans to host a climate summit in November before the UN Climate Convention meets in Peru this December.

Venezuela plans to host the first “Social Pre-COP” [Conference of the Parties], a series of conferences planned from July to November which aspire to put civil society at the heart of the global climate change debate.

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CDL in the News

28 Dec 2018 - Edwards in the NYT on electric vehicles in Latin America

24 Dec 2018 - The Public's Radio RI interviews Roberts on how the fossil fuel industry outspends environmental groups on campaign contributions & lobbying

19 Dec 2018 - EcoRI News: New Report Claims RI Climate Council Falling Behind Targets

17 Dec 2018 - 'We must move beyond business as usual,' says new report on Rhode Island's inadequate climate plan.

12 Dec 2018 - Isabel Cavelier, Guy Edwards and Lina Puerto “COP25 en 2019: reto y oportunidad para elevar la ambición climática en América Latina” El Espectador

4 Dec 2018 - Whitehouse, Ciciline meet with climate lab

28 Nov 2018 - Edwards quoted in New York Times story on Brazil backing out of hosting UN summit on climate change

11 Oct 2018 - Brookings Institute Climate reality requires starting at home: Weaning from fossil fuels

23 Sep 2018 - Edwards quoted in Financial Times on Argentina energy future

13 Jul 2018 - Europe and Latin America can blaze a trail on implementing the Paris Agreement

1 Jun 2018 - Brookings Institute One year since Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement

21 May 2018 - Edwards article in World Politics Review: Is the G-20 Heading for a Showdown With Trump on Climate Change?

11 May 2018 - Edwards Op-Ed in Washington Post

22 Jan 2018 - Roberts Op-Ed The climate solution no-one in Davos will be talking about

15 Dec 2017 - Edwards' article on how Regional and domestic politics could sabotage Brazil's bid to host UN climate change talks in 2019

8 Nov 2017 - Roberts quoted in Reuters story on financing loss and damage

9 Oct 2017 - EcoRI article describes Roberts' testimony against the natural gas power plant proposed for construction in Burrillville, Rhode Island

17 Sep 2017 - BBC Radio 5 featured a live interview with Roberts about Trump's conditions for staying in Paris

4 Sep 2017 - Roberts comments on the use of his work in a report by Rhode Island Department of Health on the proposed power plant in Burrillville, Rhode Island

17 Jul 2017 - Roberts mentioned in NPR's story on the US having a say in UN climate spending

15 Jul 2017 - Roberts calls for solid climate policies in RI

5 Jul 2017 - Roberts demands swifter action on CO2 release

5 Jul 2017 - Roberts demands RI Governor Raimondo to take climate action

30 Jun 2017 - Roberts gives advice on owning and using electric cars

23 Jun 2017 - Roberts comments on how voters are persuaded by the terms 'climate change' and 'global warming'

20 Jun 2017 - Roberts' involvement in local climate group is helping to fight fossil fuel development

3 Jun 2017 - WPRO Radio's Steve Klamkin interviews Roberts on the Paris Agreement

2 Jun 2017 - Roberts comments on US involvement in the Green Climate Fund

2 Jun 2017 - BBC Radio 5's Faye Rusco interviews Roberts on Trump's withdrawal from Paris

2 Jun 2017 - Roberts discusses the role of mayors and private sector companies post US pull-out of Paris

1 Jun 2017 - Roberts gives more details about the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

1 Jun 2017 - Roberts organizes emergency protest in RI

1 Jun 2017 - Roberts comments on the implications of US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

1 Jun 20117 - Roberts share his views on the US exit from the Paris Accord

31 May 2017 - Roberts cited on the far-reaching implications of US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

31 May 2017 - RI left vulnerable if US pulls out of Paris Accord, says Roberts

24 May 2017 - Roberts chimes in on Trump's proposed EPA budget

30 Apr 2017 - Roberts helps to 'fact check' Trump's first 100 days in office

25 Apr 2017 - Roberts lobbies for people's march in RI to mark Trump's first 100 days in office

23 Apr 2017 - Roberts cautions against threats to science at march for science in Rhode Island

7 Apr 2017 - White House Chronicle's Llewelyn King interviews Roberts on Trump’s executive order and climate policy directions

10 Mar 2017 - Roberts quoted in Providence Business News about new proposed fossil fuel infrastructure in Rhode Island

6 Feb 2017 - Devex article on climate finance under the new administration quotes Roberts

18 Jan 2017 - Roberts featured in NPR Marketplace segment on Obama's $500m donation to the Green Climate Fund

29 Dec 2016 - Roberts quoted in Common Dreams article about the state of environmental justice in 2016

19 Nov 2016 - EcoRI profiles Roberts and the new Civic Alliance for a Cooler Rhode Island

14 Nov 2016 - Roberts featured in Rhode Island Public Radio segment on Trump and the Paris Agreement

12 Nov 2016 - Roberts quoted in Climate Home article on Republican plans to defund climate change programs

10 Nov 2016 - Roberts quote appears in EcoRI article about Trump and the environment

9 Nov 2016 - Roberts quoted in InsideClimate News article on COP22 reaction to Trump's election

9 Nov 2016 - Science Daily discusses new CDL article on paying for loss and damage

9 Nov 2016 - Roberts quoted in Climate Home article on COP22 reaction to Trump's election

8 Nov 2016 - Roberts' paper on paying for loss and damage discussed and quoted in Phys.Org

7 Nov 2016 - Roberts' paper on paying for loss and damage discussed and quoted in Futurity article

21 Sep 2016 - Roberts quoted in a Breitbart News article about Clinton's support following shift in climate change language

20 Sep 2016 - Roberts quoted in a Climate Home article on Clinton's language around climate change after Sanders' endorsement

5 May 2016 – Climate Home quotes Edwards on the announcement that Patricia Espinosa will lead the UNFCCC from this July

5 May 2016 - Dialogo Chino quotes Edwards following announcement that Patricia Espinosa will replace Christiana Figueres as head of the UNFCCC

24 Apr 2016 - Deutsche Welle quotes Edwards on how ratifying Paris Agreement can boost prosperity in Latin America

23 Mar 2016 – Edwards provides extended quote to Dialogo Chino on Obama’s trip to Cuba and Argentina

25 Dec 2015 - ConexiónCOP conversó con Guy Edwards sobre el nuevo acuerdo climático y America Latina

14 Dec 2015 - Rhode Island Public Radio quotes Roberts on how Paris Climate Pact should steer New England toward clean energy

11 Dec 2015 - Associated Press quotes Romain Weikmans on “Wild West” account on climate finance

10 Dec 2015 - Climate Home talks to Roberts about the lack of an independent system on climate finance

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