Rainforest Action Network

WASHINGTON

Critics Slam California “Forest Offset” Plan

By Katelyn Fossett
More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest “offsets” in the state’s new emissions-trading scheme.

Hurricane Sandy Fans Flames of Climate Change Debate

By Rebecca Hanser
As the East Coast deals with the havoc and devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, climate scientists are seeing yet another reason to put climate change and global warming on the current political agenda.