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 →
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
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
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
White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay
Leading climate scientists will meet with officials in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will hold a first-of-its-kind roundtable with some of the nation’s leading scientists on Thursday to discuss the urgent need to combat the climate crisis and to counter arguments for... Continue Reading →
Renowned author, social critic, and philosopher Noam Chomsky believes that human civilization is rapidly "approaching the most dangerous point" in its collective history, citing a conflagration of global crises that threaten to shatter the foundations of modern society. Chomsky, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,... Continue Reading →
‘We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history’: Noam Chomsky on climate change and nuclear war
Dino Talks #2 — A Deeper Dive into the Damages Caused by Fossil Fuel Subsidies
We Don't Have Time and UNDP are proud to present the second episode in a series of 10 in-depth table talks on the subject of fossil fuel subsidies. 💡 Ask your questions to our guests on: https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/... We need to halve our emissions by 2030 and hit net zero no later than 2050 to save... Continue Reading →
The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn't meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year. The World Health Organization, about six months after tightening... Continue Reading →
WHO says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air
"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing—but doing another," António Guterres said in a scathing address. "Simply put, they are lying." Following the publication of a key United Nations climate report on Monday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres took aim at governments and corporations—whom he accused "a litany of broken climate promises"—while defending the... Continue Reading →
UN Chief: Those Expanding Fossil Fuels—Not Climate Activists—Are the ‘Truly Dangerous Radicals’
By Eric Roston April 4, 2022, 5:30 PM EDT Listen to this article instead! The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest 3,000-page look at how humanity can avoid compounding catastrophe if nations take sufficient action to do so. So far humanity hasn’t, the report concludes. Left unchanged, the world’s current emissions... Continue Reading →
Five Takeaways from the UN’s Latest 3,000-Page Climate Report
Granted it’s still early in 2022, but signs are emerging that the amount of financing going to coal-related projects is running at a rate that’s more than double last year’s pace. With the first quarter coming to a close, banks (mostly based in China) have helped coal companies raise $9.9 billion via loans and bond... Continue Reading →
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