Greta Thunberg: 5 Years after Paris Agreement, world is ‘speeding in the wrong direction’...
“The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute."
How a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty can guide a global just transition & emission...
“This treaty talks about ending fossil fuel expansion, phasing out, and also just transition.”
Shell’s Permian Basin sell-off unlikely to reduce climate pollution
“You’re not reducing emissions, you're just transferring who produces them.”
Renewables helped prevent blackouts on New England’s hottest day this summer
As much as 22 percent of power usage in New England on June 24 came from behind-the-meter solar.
‘Major hurdle’ cleared as youth activists advance historic climate case
“These brave young people have cleared a major hurdle in their pursuit of a judgment which compels European governments to accelerate their climate mitigation efforts.”
Europe was hottest ever recorded last year, and is heating up faster than any...
Scientists write, “60 percent of Europe saw more days than average with at least ‘strong heat stress’.”
EPA to curb HFCs, severe climate-damaging pollutants used as coolants
Scientists estimate that a global push to reduce HFCs could avoid a half degree Celsius of global warming over this century.
State of Emergency in California as Santa Barbara Cleans Up from Another Major Oil...
While the cleanup of crude oil leaked from a broken pipeline started off slow, efforts are underway at the shores of Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara, California. This latest spill recalls a catastrophic blowout that happened in 1969.
Facing their failure to meet 2020 biodiversity targets, world leaders pledge action & funds
Amid calls from the U.N. Chief to stop treating the earth ‘as if we have a spare one,’ French President Emmanuel Macron led world leaders in commitments to protect ecosystems at the One Planet Summit
World leaders’ lack of urgency to fight climate crisis hangs over UN General Assembly
“Climate change ignores power politics. It doesn’t care how many armies you have, how many weapons you have… We saw in the pandemic when we don’t organize collectively how damaging it is. Climate is just much worse.”