Climate Action/”Blockadia”
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357 Amazon Employees Break Company Policy, Speak Out Online for Faster Climate Action
Cloud computing and online commerce behemoth Amazon is facing an unprecedented revolt by 357 employees participating in a public display of support for colleagues ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsLegal & RegulatorySub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
41,500 Petition Signatures Urge Wilkinson, Federal Cabinet to Reject Teck Frontier Mine
Climate campaigners delivered a petition with 41,500 signatures to Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s North Vancouver constituency office Friday, demanding the federal Cabinet reject Teck ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBiodiversity & HabitatCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Legal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Decades-Old Environmental Action Handbook Pivots to ‘Permanent System Change’
Three decades after 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Planet first took America by storm, its bestselling author is still pushing ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFirst PeoplesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionShale & FrackingSub-National Governments
Wet’suwet’en Supporters Blockade Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal
A group of protesters produced decidedly mixed reactions Monday, after blocking the busy Swartz Bay ferry terminal on Vancouver Island in support of Wet’suwet’en ... -
CitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate DenialClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Conservative U.S. States Take Tentative Steps, But Won’t Call it Climate Action
Across major swaths of the United States, legislators in some of the country’s most conservative enclaves are making tentative moves to take action on ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourDrive to 1.5First PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationInsurance & LiabilityJobsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPathways to 1.5Soil & Natural SequestrationTransitWalking & Biking
‘Words Make Worlds’: Holthaus Issues Call to Imagine, Create a Radically Positive Future
As the climate crisis deepens, we must be “radically imaginative,” telling ourselves and each other stories of fiercely visionary, loving, and productive collective actions ... -
CCS & Negative EmissionsClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesNational Plans & Responses
Thunberg Demands Action, Fossils Tout Carbon Capture as Greenpeace Calls Out Fossil Investors at Davos Forum
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was a study in contrasts yesterday, with #FridaysforFuture founder Greta Thunberg slamming the world’s governments and ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate DenialDemographicsEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJobsLegal & RegulatoryUnited States
Harvard Students Protest After Exxon’s Law Firm Tries to Recruit Them
An elite U.S. corporate law firm flopped badly in its recent bid to recruit Harvard law students, when nearly a third of the invitees ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsEuropeForests & Deforestation
Former Coal Commissioners Slam Germany’s Phaseout Plan
Former members of Germany’s coal commission are accusing the national government of breaking the compromise behind its much-acclaimed agreement to phase out coal-fired power ... -
U.S. Judges Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case, Send Plaintiffs Back to the Ballot Box
After a five-year push just to secure a trial date, the landmark Juliana v. United States youth climate justice case is hanging by a ... -
Thunberg Calls for Immediate End to Fossil Extraction, Subsidies as WEF Convenes in Davos
Global warming may be set to dominate this year’s World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort town of Davos, with FridaysforFuture founder Greta Thunberg ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"EuropeFinance & InvestmentHeat & TemperatureIce Loss & Sea Level RiseLegal & Regulatory
Swiss Judge Acquits Credit Suisse Protesters for ‘Necessary, Proportional’ Response to Climate Crisis
A judge in Lausanne, Switzerland has acquitted a group of youth protesters on trespassing charges and waived fines of CHf 21,600 (US$22,200) per person, ... -
Tenured Professor Resigns Over McGill’s Failure to Divest Fossil Fuels
A tenured professor at Montreal’s McGill University has quit his job over the board of governors’ refusal to dump its investments in fossil fuels.
