(CNN)In the same week that Tropical Storm Fred caused catastrophic flooding in North Carolina, and Hurricane Grace made its second landfall in Mexico, Hurricane Henri is barreling toward New England, where it's expected to be the first to make landfall there in 30 years. Hurricanes -- also called tropical cyclones or typhoons outside North America... Continue Reading →
World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken, reveals Swiss Re Institute's stress-test analysis New Climate Economics Index stress-tests how climate change will impact 48 countries, representing 90% of world economy, and ranks their overall climate resilience Expected global GDP impact by 2050 under different scenarios compared... Continue Reading →
World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken…
Steven Donziger's legal saga has demonstrated deep-rooted conflicts of interest in the judicial system when it comes to climate justice. This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After spending more than 700 days under house arrest, a human rights and environmental lawyer was found... Continue Reading →
This attorney took on Chevron. Then Chevron-linked judges and private prosecutors had him locked up.
Texas’s oil regulator has a solution for those who fear the world is over-heating: “Turn the damn air conditioner up.” The sentiment was voiced at an energy conference Friday by Wayne Christian, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees oil and gas drilling and transportation in the biggest producing state. The remarks came... Continue Reading →
A Texas Solution to Global Warming: Use More Air-Conditioning
The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. We estimate that over 8 million environmentalists did not vote in the 2020 presidential election and over 12 million skipped the 2018 midterms. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on a simple, high-leverage solution to this problem: with a 5-year... Continue Reading →
I’m thrilled to announce the Environmental Voter Project’s brand new website!
We are raising funds to get Latin American and Caribbean climate activists to COP26 in Glasgow! *Thank you to Climate Live for being our legal entity and holding funds. The next big climate change conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), is scheduled to take place in Glasgow, UK, from the 31st of October to the 12th of... Continue Reading →
Get Latin American & Caribbean activists to COP!
Keeping New York Honest on Climate Progress
The state has adopted ambitious climate goals. But so far, there’s no real way to measure its progress. Governor Andrew Cuomo has called climate change an “existential threat,” but it remains in many ways a vague one. New York got a crash course in epidemiology last year, with coronavirus data starring daily in the governor’s... Continue Reading →
The Earth is changing faster than at any point in human memory as a result of human-caused global heating. Since the mid-1800s, when we began burning fossil fuels at an industrial scale, we have been modifying our atmosphere and causing the globe to heat up. Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, which causes hotter... Continue Reading →
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News and other Video Links on the IPCC Report IPCC Report released on 08.09.2021 - Clean
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SCEN believes that local organizations are best positioned to bring about equitable and sustainable energy systems across the Southeast when they share a common vision and collaborate with a broad range of partners. To effectively collaborate across multiple states and issue areas, the network aims to leverage our collective power to provide leadership, training, funding... Continue Reading →
SOUTHEAST CLIMATE & ENERGY NETWORK
If the province’s oil is dug up and burned, it will be calculably harder to limit the damage from climate change. Some weeks ago, the government of Alberta wrote to me—and apparently to a number of other environmentalists and environmental groups. We are all subjects of an “anti-Alberta energy inquiry,” and have the right to... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 