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Severe Storms Could Wipe Out 167 Million Homes by 2040 without G7 Action
Unless G7 leaders find global solutions to climate change, 167 million homes around the world could be wiped out within the next two decades, ... -
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Oxfam, Swiss Re Predict Deep Economic Pain without Faster, Deeper Carbon Cuts
Canada’s economy could shrink 6.9% per year by 2050, the world’s most industrialized economies could drop 8.5%, and developing countries will fare far worse ... -
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World Climate Deal Could Fail Unless G7 Solves Vaccine Disparities
The shattering disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates between rich and poor countries could defeat efforts to implement the Paris agreement, a growing chorus of ... -
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The Future is Ours as We ‘Glue Ourselves Anew’, Sunrise Organizer Writes
After a year of compounded crisis, cultures and attitudes are shifting and a better future can emerge, writes Sunrise Movement organizer Nikayla Jefferson. “The ... -
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‘Globally Remarkable’ German Court Decision Enshrines Climate Protection as Human Right
In what Clean Energy Wire calls an “unexpected decision widely hailed as historic,” Germany’s Constitutional Court has declared the country’s 2030 emission reduction targets ... -
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Climate Disasters in 2020 Displace Three Times More People than War
Some 30 million people around the world were displaced last year by floods, severe storms, and wildfires, making climate change the cause of three ... -
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NWT Communities Evacuate in Face of ‘Scary’ Mackenzie River Flooding
As extreme seasonal flooding hits riverside communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories, the region’s small towns are stepping up to help each other. -
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Arizona Politics Flips from Climate Denial to Ecofascism
From lawsuits in Arizona to promises by French politician Marine Le Pen to make her country “the world’s first ecological civilization,” the far right ... -
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Law Profs See Environmental Racism Bill as ‘Catalyst for Transformative Change’
This past winter, COVID-19 outbreaks at two Coastal GasLink work camps in northern British Columbia spilled over into neighbouring Wet’suwet’en communities, according to media ... -
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‘Globally Remarkable’ German Court Decision Enshrines Climate Protection as Human Right
In what Clean Energy Wire calls an “unexpected decision widely hailed as historic,” Germany’s Constitutional Court has declared the country’s 2030 emission reduction targets ... -
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Judge Denies Wet’suwet’en Challenge to Coastal GasLink Permit
The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected a bid to quash the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for the Coastal GasLink pipeline, the ... -
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California Pitches 2024 Fracking Ban, 2045 Oil Phaseout as Campaigners Urge Faster Action
California climate campaigners marked a moment of progress Friday while urging Governor Gavin Newsom to pick up the pace, after the state that calls ... -
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International Climate Finance Promise Puts U.S. ‘Back in the Game’ but Campaigners Demand More
The Biden-Harris administration’s agenda for yesterday’s Leaders Summit on Climate included a new international climate finance plan that puts billions of new dollars on ... -
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Over 100 Nobel Winners Call for Global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
One hundred and one Nobel laureates—including peace activists, economists, medical experts, chemists, and physicists—have released an open letter urging world leaders to sign a ... -
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Canada Must Show Up at Biden Summit with ‘More than Just Words’ , International Experts Warn
With the new U.S. administration taking real action on climate change, both domestically and internationally, Canada will have to show up next week at ...
