Tag: climate change
Sociology can help the climate crisis
Climate change is caused by people acting in groups, after all, and sociology is the study of people acting in groups.
More US residents than ever before understand climate crisis is real...
There is a growing awareness that the extreme weather events of recent years are caused by the climate crisis, with an all-time high of 70 percent of people believing that global warming is impacting U.S. weather right now.
The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has...
How can oceans help us tackle the climate crisis? And what progress has been made in international negotiations?
COP26: Climate pledges don’t match up with policies—or consumer behavior
The Glasgow Climate Pact kicks the climate can down the road.
At COP26, Indigenous, black, and brown activists offer radical solutions for...
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as “net zero” emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas—and a seat at the table.
Fixing climate finance
A rules-based system, with fair and transparent burden sharing, is the way to secure the financing we need for planetary safety and fairness.
Glasgow pact slammed for betraying the global poor who suffer most...
“Once again, the UN climate summit just prioritized the voices of the privileged and not those that are most affected by the climate crisis.”
The gap between climate rhetoric and reality: The Fossil Fuelled 5
Among those five wealthy countries analyzed, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway and Australia, all plan to approve and subsidize new fossil fuel projects despite their claims of leading in the climate fight, the report concluded.
Six areas where action must focus to rescue this planet
In the next three decades, the world must dramatically decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to return to a more stable climate.














