Tag: Paris Agreement

"America made a commitment, and as an American, if the government's not going to do it we all have responsibility."

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.

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.

“It is hard to overstate the significance of this historic announcement by the World Bank.”

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.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is a catastrophe, but it has inspired a whirlwind of bottom-up climate activism.

“We’re here to tell the world that Donald Trump does not represent the majority view in our country, that overwhelmingly people do believe that the planet is dangerously warming and that human activity is causing it and that we have to do something about it.”

China and South Korea could be game changers on climate – and create a more peaceful region in the process.

Ortega's move leaves Trump in a two-member club with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, one of the world's most brutal dictators.

Trump’s sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe.