Tag: climate finance
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.
Ahead of COP30, UN report warns 1.5°C breach as countries commit...
With fewer than one third of Paris Agreement signatories submitting updated climate plans, the UN’s new synthesis report shows global pledges would cut emissions by only 10 percent by 2035 as world leaders admit “overshooting is now inevitable.”
Banks pour $2 billion more into Amazon oil and gas as...
Stand.earth finds financing surges since 2024 while Brazil’s Petrobras pushes new drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River ahead of COP30 in Belém.
Former leaders urge permanent polluter profit taxes to fund climate action
With the United Nations General Assembly underway, former presidents and prime ministers call for permanent polluter profit taxes, subsidy shifts, and fair financing for a just transition.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.