Tag: youth climate activists
Youth challenge 32 European nations in ‘truly historic’ climate trial
Lawyers representing six Portuguese young people said the youth were being discriminated against by state inaction in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of which have been “foreseeable for decades.”
Montana’s narrow defense in youth climate trial was devoid of climate...
Last week, some of Montana’s foremost climate scientists and ecologists testified in the historic trial, in support of the plaintiffs’ claims.
Historic first US youth climate change trial starts in Montana
They argue are destroying the environment, making the climate crisis worse and robbing them and other young residents of their futures.
‘Blah, blah, blah’: Youth climate activists slam political inaction at UN...
The protest came at the end of a three-day youth climate conference, ahead of the United Nations’ COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Youth demand action on nature, following IUCN’s first-ever global youth summit
“So we linked our demands to our own actions through our ‘Your Promise, Our Future’ campaign and are showing world leaders what we are doing for the world and then asking them what they are going to do for us and our future.”
Youth demand US action on climate-induced loss and damage in global...
"We are a generation that doesn't want only to blame; we want to influence concrete change on the political, community, and society level."
Youth climate activists change legal strategy
They will ask the court to rule the U.S. energy system violates their constitutional rights to due process and equal protection under the law, and to order the U.S. government to establish a plan to transition off of fossil fuels.
Youth climate activists will not stop fighting their climate case –...
“The 9th Circuit has deprived people in that Circuit the ability to seek a resolution of a real controversy with their government.”
Australian teens bring class action climate lawsuit to stop coal mine...
“I believe that the government has a duty to young people to protect our futures from the impacts of climate change, including stopping the impact of the Vickery Extension Project.”
Stories from the youth climate movement in the Global South
Young people who had mobilized for the climate across the world in 2019 were right: Much environmental damage is the result of human action, and as such, can also be reversed through human initiative.
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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.
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Women leaders and Trump 2.0.