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Answering For Climate Change: A Peruvian Farmer Sues an Energy Giant
ANSWERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A PERUVIAN FARMER SUES AN ENERGY GIANT Saul Luciano Lliuya lives near Huaraz, a city in the Andes. Huaraz may not exist much longer, thanks to the swiftly melting Churup Glacier. The glacier feeds a lake which has grown more than thirty times in volume over the past four decades, and […]
COP21 and “4 per thousand” – Storing Carbon in the Soil.
COP21 and “4 per thousand” – Storing Carbon in the Soil. It would have been a remarkable oversight, had not our use of the land and its soils featured among the discussions about climate change mitigation in Paris at COP21. However, at the conference was hosted a side-event and official launch of the “4 per thousand” […]
The Net-Zero Imperative
The Net-Zero Imperative OXFORD – The world has reached an historic agreement on climate change. The deal concluded at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris commits countries to take steps to limit warming to “well below” 2º Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels and to pursue “efforts” to limit warming to 1.5ºC. It also […]
The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit”
The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit” Amid all the self-congratulatory mutual masturbation that has effused since the “historic” signing of a climate ‘deal’ with no enforcement mechanism, few are better qualified (or more outspoken) to describe the utter farce that COP21 is than former NASA scientist James Hansen, who as The Guardian […]
COP 21: There Is a Way to Beat Climate Change
COP 21: There Is a Way to Beat Climate Change The Paris Climate Change Conference might be the turning point in addressing climate change at the international level. The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) is the annual meeting of the 195 nations that make up the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. The […]
World Leaders Just Agreed To A “Historic” Climate Accord… Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language
World Leaders Just Agreed To A “Historic” Climate Accord… Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language Great news! The “greatest threat to future generations of the world” has apparently been solved. World leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change. […]
COP21: Canada’s new goal for limiting global warming ‘perhaps a dream’
COP21: Canada’s new goal for limiting global warming ‘perhaps a dream’ Target ambitious but not impossible, scientists say Canada is currently committed to reducing emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, which is ‘nowhere near strong enough’ to stay below the country’s new stated target, an environmental scientist says. (CBC) This story is part […]
Climate Activists Announce Global Campaign of Civil Disobedience to “Break Free From Fossil Fuels”
Climate Activists Announce Global Campaign of Civil Disobedience to “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Climate justice and environmental campaigners announced plans today at COP21 in Paris to escalate the number of non-violent civil disobedience actions against fossil fuel projects over the next year. The groups are planning a concentrated week of global actions in May of 2016. […]
The Paris Climate Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn
The Paris Climate Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn Paris. The Paris agreement, according to Pablo Solón, a veteran of climate negotiations, “will be an agreement that will burn up the planet.” The result of the COP21 (Twenty-first United Nations Climate Change Conference), which began on Monday, Nov. 30 and will end on Dec. […]
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too? As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than the last, and each governmental COP meeting organized […]
Apocalyptic Capitalism
Apocalyptic Capitalism A slogan referring to the COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on the Eiffel Tower. (Michel Euler / AP) The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide […]
Will Paris Conference Finally Achieve Real Action on Climate?
Will Paris Conference Finally Achieve Real Action on Climate? The emission pledges from the world’s nations still fall short of the goal for limiting global warming. But as negotiators convene in Paris this week, there is cautious optimism that a significant international agreement on climate can be reached. Six years after the last negotiations crashed so […]
The Paris Climate Talks Don’t Matter
The Paris Climate Talks Don’t Matter The COP21 climate talks began on Monday in Paris. Leaders around the world are seeking a legally binding restriction on emissions, hoping to save future generations from near-certain environmental collapse and catastrophe. But these talks won’t change a thing. “Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, […]
Near Boiling Point on Global Warming
Near Boiling Point on Global Warming Rising global temperatures – if they exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels – threaten to unleash havoc across the planet, including mass dislocations of desperate people that will make the current flood of Syrian refugees look like a tiny warm-up, writes Nat Parry. With more than 40,000 negotiators from […]
From Good Intentions to Deep Decarbonization
From Good Intentions to Deep Decarbonization NEW YORK – In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, more than 150 governments submitted plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. Many observers are asking whether these reductions are deep enough. But there is an even more important question: Will the chosen […]
