Alice Harrison

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Alice Harrison is Communications and Advocacy Coordinator for Transparency International's Climate Governance Integrity Programme.
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The Green Climate Fund – bringing the world of ideas to the board room

By on 24 April 2013 in Climate Change

The World Bank is a leading heavyweight in development investment, presiding over US$30 – $40 billion per year. Inaugurated last summer, the Green Climate Fund could soon dwarf that portfolio. It is estimated that by 2020 it will be channeling US$100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries – to help arrest the [...]

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Green Climate Fund: with so much at stake we can’t afford foul play

By on 18 October 2012 in Accountability, Climate Change

Urgency and precaution are not easily reconcilable. The Green Climate Fund – which meets today for the second time – will have to negotiate that balance. As climate negotiations chug along laboriously, this global fund will ensure that much-needed investment is not stalled as a result. By 2020 it could be holding the purse strings [...]

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Desde las montanas de Cusco, una llamada a la transparencia

By on 31 July 2012 in Accountability, Climate Change, Poverty and development

Lo siguiente ha sido  redactado por Alice Harrison, Coordinadora de Comunicaciones e Incidencia y Leah Good, Asistente del Programa de  Gobernanza del Cambio Climático de Transparency International. Editado por Magaly Ávila y Samuel Rotta. Traducido por María José Harrisson. Read this blog post in English here. La parcela verduzca de la familia Huilca resalta por [...]

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A call for transparency from the foothills of the Andes

By on 31 July 2012 in Access to information, Accountability, Americas, Climate Change, Poverty and development

The following was written by Alice Harrison, Communications and Advocacy Coordinator, and Leah Good, Programme Officer, for Transparency International’s Climate Governance Integrity Programme. Lea este artículo en español aquí. The Huilca family’s plot of land is a stark green anomaly on an otherwise arid mountainside. As we survey this small vestige of fertility from above, [...]

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Rio+20: Hope for the anti-corruption community

By on 13 July 2012 in Climate Change, Lobbying, Poverty and development

Money laundering, bribery, embezzlement, cronyism; corruption has many guises and is endlessly creative. Its main fuel is a failure to acknowledge or act upon its existence. Last month’s Rio+20 conference on sustainable development dodged that fate. Sustainable development is about ensuring that economic growth can happen globally, but evenly and not at the expense of [...]

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Did you know that you have a right to know? Spreading the word in Papua New Guinea’s forests

By on 11 June 2012 in Access to information, Accountability, Asia Pacific, Forestry

“Welcome to the jungle!” George flashes me a wry smile as our jeep begins its stuttering ascent up the mountain, into an endless expanse of thicketed green. George had sent a message over the radio three days earlier, in the hope that news of our visit would travel to Leileiyafa in time. He and his [...]

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If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it

By on 20 April 2012 in Climate Change, Poverty and development

“If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it,” was the press headline when Severn Suzuki addressed heads of states in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. She was twelve years old, at what was then the world’s biggest ever political gathering. In an impassioned critique of unfettered industrialism, Severn lamented the decline [...]

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COP 17: What do the failures of the UN climate regime mean for climate action?

By on 14 December 2011 in Climate Change

Alice Harrison, Communications Coordinator for TI’s Climate Governance Integrity Programme, reports from South Africa as the 2011 climate conference reaches its conclusion. As the sun rose on South Africa yesterday a burst of applause sounded from Durban’s conference hall as UN negotiators commended themselves for reaching an “historic agreement” on climate change. “We have worked [...]

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Will President Zuma raise climate finance at the G20 summit?

By on 25 October 2011 in Climate Change, G20

Alice Harrison, Communications and Advocacy Coordinator for Transparency International’s Climate GovernanceIntegrity Programme, highlights the need to consider the dangers of corruption in climate finance at the upcoming G20 summit and COP17 meeting. Economic growth and environmental conservation tend to be presented in terms of either/or. In the industrialised world the environment has figured as a [...]

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Climate finance in Bangladesh: Where has all the money gone?

By on 21 September 2011 in Asia Pacific, Climate Change

It was slippery in parts so she took my hand, steering me gently from one dry spot to the next. The path soon gave way to sludge, punctured with bricks for steppingstones. Her house was one of a cluster of three clay bungalows, perched upon a shimmering expanse of mud. Visiting this woman’s home was [...]

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