Tag: climate crisis

Here's why that's bad news for the communities in both Canada and the U.S. where this influx of oil train traffic will pass.

Wells Griffith refused to answer questions and ran from our camera team for about a quarter-mile, retreating to the U.S. delegation office.

"The good news is it's not too late to correct the course. As leaders meet this week at the UN climate talks in Poland, we urge them to run, not crawl, towards reducing emissions and accelerating a clean energy transition."

“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”

"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”

"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."

"Unless there is a fair deal that accounts for the legacy of climate change caused by industrialized developed countries, we will never have a sustainable global strategy."

"Climate change is an existential threat to the world's poorest and most vulnerable. These new targets demonstrate how seriously we are taking this issue, investing and mobilizing $200 billion over five years to combat climate change."

This dereliction of consistent misleadership has put the planet on a dangerous path of climate crisis.

"If we do not get our act together, I worry about the planet that we will be leaving... The grassroots of this country has got to stand up."