Tag: Paris Agreement
New youth climate lawsuit launched against UK government on five year...
“If the wave of litigation and mobilization becomes a tidal wave, from South to North and across the generations, then governments will have no option but to listen.”
World’s banks have given $2.7 trillion to fossil fuels since Paris...
In this new decade, the climate emergency is clearer than ever, with emissions cuts of almost 5 percent necessary by 2030.
House passes Climate Action Now bill in first major climate change...
Three Republicans voted with House Democrats to approve the Climate Action Now bill – the first major climate change legislation in a decade.
5 things to know before next week’s critical UN climate talks
You can participate, too. Climate change is not some far-away phenomenon, it is here now and impacts people around the globe everyday.
Michael Bloomberg pledges $4.5 million to help US meet Paris Climate...
"America made a commitment, and as an American, if the government's not going to do it we all have responsibility."
A year of Resistance – and why I’m hopeful for 2018
Americans from all walks of life are now awake to the threats this administration poses to our democracy, our health, our climate and basic human rights.
France becomes first country to ban fracking and oil production
The plan is part of France’s commitment to the Paris climate agreement, and their larger plan of weaning the French economy from fossil fuels.
World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas exploration
“It is hard to overstate the significance of this historic announcement by the World Bank.”
There was progress at the Global Climate Summit. Now urgent action...
To create a climate-safe world doesn't simply require impressive targets for the next two decades – it requires urgent action in the next two years.
Trump’s climate COP-out and the movement it has unleashed
The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is a catastrophe, but it has inspired a whirlwind of bottom-up climate activism.
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Trump campaign paid millions to Jan. 6 Capitol riot
“It was his duty as commander-in-chief to stop the violence. And he alone had that power because they believed that they were following his orders. They said so.”
2021 update: Half of America in or near poverty
The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."
Texas Jabberwockery – Cruz Roasted After Fleeing Blizzard
Even worse than backing Trumpster – Glaring “dereliction of duty...”
‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal
“Pfizer and BioNTech are firmly committed to working with governments and other relevant stakeholders to ensure equitable and affordable access to our Covid-19 vaccine for people around the world.”
‘This is unacceptable’: Progressives reject Manchin plan to cut $15 minimum wage proposal to...
The $15 minimum wage is overwhelmingly popular with the American people. One person should not be allowed to hold relief hostage.