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Carl Pope: Cities Can Lead … Cities Want to Lead … So Let them!

Carl Pope: Cities Can Lead … Cities Want to Lead … So Let them!

Prospects for the Paris climate summit is much brighter than for any climate gathering since Kyoto in 1997. Three main factors are driving Paris towards success: China’s decision, partly driven by its air pollution crisis, to become a major advocate of change both domestically and globally has upended the politics of North vs. South. The dramatic fall […]

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    Bernie Sanders: GOP Candidates Care More About Koch Money Than ‘Preserving the Planet for Our Children’

    Bernie Sanders: GOP Candidates Care More About Koch Money Than ‘Preserving the Planet for Our Children’

    Science-denying Republicans—intent on derailing local, national and global attempts to avert a looming climate crisis—have their priorities all wrong, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday. Republicans may not want to admit it, but when it comes to climate change, “the evidence is overwhelming,” Bernie Sanders declared on Tuesday. Photo credit: Erik J. Olson / […]

    Least to Blame, Hardest Hit: Vulnerable Nations Show Leadership at COP21

    Least to Blame, Hardest Hit: Vulnerable Nations Show Leadership at COP21

    As the high-level Heads of State meeting wrapped up, emerging economies and developing nations took the spotlight at the COP21 Paris climate talks. The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), representing more than 20 countries around the world most at risk from climate change, backed the inclusion of a goal to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by […]

    These 4 Kids Walked to the North Pole and Now They Need Your Help

    These 4 Kids Walked to the North Pole and Now They Need Your Help

    Four 14-year old kids from Norway walked all the way to the North Pole to see how climate change is affecting our planet. Now, they need your help in reaching their biggest goal yet: meeting some of the world’s most important leaders and ask them to put the kids first when talking about climate change. Four […]

    Prince Charles: Governments Must Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies

    Prince Charles: Governments Must Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies

    Fossil fuel subsides totaling $500 billion globally must be scrapped to prevent catastrophic climate change, the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group told the COP21 conference in Paris today. "In damaging our climate we become the architects of our destruction." Watch Prince Charles' opening speech #COP21https://t.co/assRpnTEmT — Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) November 30, 2015 John Key, […]

    Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets Demanding Urgent Action on Climate Change

    Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets Demanding Urgent Action on Climate Change

    More than 2,300 events spread across 175 countries took place this weekend prior to the Paris climate talks, which begin Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets demanding world leaders take urgent action on climate change. “I can see the humans in humanity again” – THANK YOU to everyone who joined #ClimateMarch https://t.co/6SgYuEeOYd pic.twitter.com/HIx0Wu2r4Z — 350 […]

    10,000 Form Human Chain in Paris Demanding World Leaders Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground

    10,000 Form Human Chain in Paris Demanding World Leaders Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground

    Thousands of Parisians and activists from around the world joined hands to form a human chain along Boulevard Voltaire in Paris this afternoon. According to Agence France Presse, nearly 10,000 people took part in the demonstration. The #humanchain for climate justice in Paris. pic.twitter.com/yNc5zVY40v — Ben & Jerry's (@benandjerrys) November 29, 2015 “We joined hands today against […]

    2015 Hottest Year Ever Recorded … Until 2016, UN Weather Agency Reports

    2015 Hottest Year Ever Recorded … Until 2016, UN Weather Agency Reports

    The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today that 2015 is likely to top the charts as the hottest year in modern observations, with 2011-15 the hottest five-year period on record. With two full months still to add in, the global average surface temperature for January to October in 2015 was 0.73C above the 1961-1990 average. […]

    World Begins to Turn Its Back on Carbon

    World Begins to Turn Its Back on Carbon

    The fossil fuel industry may waste as much as USD$2.2 trillion (£1.45 tn) in the next decade if it persists in pursuing projects that prove uneconomic in a world beginning to turn its back on carbon. An independent think tank, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI), says the industry faces “a perfect storm” of factors, including […]