Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2022 See for yourself which banks are saying one thing and doing another. How much they are funding the fossil fuel. Amazing site! Continued at BankingonClimateChaos.org
Peter Dykstra: We could all use some good news right now The environmental beat can be a real downer and we often focus on the problems—but there are signs of progress in our fight against climate change and pollution. From renewable projects to plastic treaties, here are some dashes of hope for our planet. Changing... Continue Reading →
Environmental headlines can be bleak, but good news is out there, too.
Climate Change Isn’t a Distant Threat — It’s Our Reality | Selina Neirok Leem | TED Countdown
Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods. In a stirring poem and talk, youth climate warrior Selina Neirok Leem explains why adaptation using Indigenous solutions is the only choice for people on the front lines of climate change.... Continue Reading →
I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this…
In case you missed it, (with full text too) ... Summary: Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the press conference launch of IPCC report. Description: I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning... Continue Reading →
For companies like BlackRock, the climate crisis is a valuable investment opportunity. They've positioned themselves to make money no matter how — or whether — governments address climate change. In his 2020 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, proclaimed that “climate risk is investment risk.” A... Continue Reading →
BlackRock Is Profiting Off the Climate Crisis
Agreements, not wars, start with a walk
As shared by Bill McKibben in previous blog post. By TERRY MOLLNER Ican feel it in my bones. I suspect you can also. It is the time in history for the people on Earth to speak with one voice: we want agreements not wars. It is time to end the killing of children, women and... Continue Reading →
The Secretary General of the UN models how to think about climate change I can remember when some of us organized what may have been the planet’s first truly huge climate march, with 400,000 people descending on New York in 2014. Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to walk with us for a few... Continue Reading →
The World’s Top Diplomat Has Had It Up to Here
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Credits & Offsets
The Australien Government has made an ad about its carbon-credits scheme, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Source.
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for planet... Continue Reading →
No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
House Democrats grilled CEOs of Big Oil companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, Wednesday about rising gas prices and profiteering from the Ukraine war. We get response from environmentalist Bill McKibben and speak with Ukrainian environmental lawyer Svitlana Romanko about how the war in Ukraine is impacting energy markets around the world. “These are predatory... Continue Reading →
Making a Killing: Big Oil Reaps Record Profits Using Ukraine War as Pretext to Hike Gas Prices
Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence The fossil fuel industry and its influence over policy was the major elephant in the room looming over the release of the third and final report, out this week, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 