Tag: Paris Agreement
Investigation: How the meat industry is climate-washing its polluting business model
Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change.
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.
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Is there a crack in Western support for genocide?
The shift in political rhetoric among Israel's traditional Western allies continues as it ratchets up its campaign to make life in Gaza so impossible for Palestinians that they will submit to ethnic cleansing.
The far right’s tipping point
Over the last decade, the world has suffered bouts of political whiplash as right-wing populists and their opponents have battled it out at the ballot box.
DOGE developed error-prone AI tool to ‘munch’ veterans affairs contracts
“AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this.”
New lawsuit claims Ziploc brand products misleading, increases risk of exposure to microplastics
Made from polyethylene and polypropylene, research shows that these materials release microplastics when microwaved and frozen "making them fundamentally unfit for microwave and freezer use."
Where is the AI safety movement?
There’s the prospect of super intelligent AI outpacing human control altogether. So where are the humans in all this?