BRUCE RICH | AUTHOR | ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER - Tags | expert on public international finance and the environment

Articles

The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform

In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.
The REDD+ Program is in Denial About the Intractable Problem of Governance

The REDD+ Program is in Denial About the Intractable Problem of Governance

Rich describes carbon markets as the “financial cargo cult that had driven much of the early enthusiasm for REDD+.” REDD national plans often tended to focus on the technical compl...
Pilgrims to Where Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

Pilgrims to Where Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

The Huichol peope of central Mexico still go on long distance pilgrimages to natural sites where for them the sun and world were born. These 'ambulatory weavings of ritual texts'...

Pilgrims to Where the Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

Pilgrims to Where the Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

December 20, 2019. Earlier this year I visited two of the old silver mining cities of Mexico, Zacatecas and Guanajuato. This area is also the homeland of the Huichol people, one of...