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Analyst Points to Common Cause Between Yellow Vests, Climate Campaigners
The massive gillets jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests in France may have been triggered by fuel taxes, but that doesn’t mean the participants in those ... -
Air & MarineCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDrive to 1.5EuropeFinance & InvestmentHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesJobsNational Plans & ResponsesSmall Island StatesUnited States
High Ambition Coalition Drives Up Paris Commitments While Poland Earns Public Rebuke
The High Ambition Coalition that drove the Paris Agreement to a better conclusion put in a repeat performance, and the Polish Presidency responsible for ... -
CanadaClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Finance & InvestmentFood SecurityHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesPathways to 1.5
Gender Equality Puts Climate Objectives Alongside Development Goals
Tuesday, December 11 was Gender Day at COP 24, a chance to underscore what gender equality means for effective climate action, and to identify ... -
AfricaAuto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageEuropeHuman Rights & MigrationPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & Consumption
Daimler Plans €20-Billion Battery Buy by 2030
German automotive giant Daimler is planning to spend more than €20 billion on battery cells through 2030 as it prepares for the rise of ... -
Quebec Youth Launch Class Action Lawsuit Against Canada’s ‘Inadequate’ Climate Plan
A group of five youth and young adults led by Montreal-based ENvironnement JEUnesse (ENJEU) has applied to the Superior Court of Québec for leave ... -
AustraliaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Finance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryNational Plans & ResponsesSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
‘Carbon-Free’ Virtual Forum Demands 1.5°C Action for World’s Most Vulnerable Nations
The Climate Vulnerable Forum completed the world’s first-ever zero-emissions climate summit this week, a day-long virtual meeting that challenged the inevitably more carbon-intensive COP ... -
BrazilClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Forests & DeforestationHuman Rights & MigrationNational Plans & Responses
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Appoints Anti-Globalist Climate Denier as Foreign Minister
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has named an anti-globalist diplomat to lead on foreign affairs and his country’s relationship to the Paris Agreement. -
AsiaClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
Philippines Commission Probes Fossils’ Accountability for Extreme Climate Impacts
The business writers at The Economist are paying attention to an inquiry launched by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights, aimed at determining for ... -
Five Years After Super Typhoon Haiyan, Filipina Survivor Testifies Against Big Fossil Polluters
“As we were leaving Tacloban it reminded me of the scene from the Hunger Games. I thought: I never want to come back to ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDrawdownFinance & InvestmentHuman Rights & Migration
Family Planning Would Save 59.6 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Family Planning places #7 in Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. It could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by 59.6 gigatons by 2050—and without it, a ...
