Wednesday, 24 July 2019
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Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Monday, 20 May 2019
Sunday, 19 May 2019
Saturday, 18 May 2019
Friday, 17 May 2019
‘Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside Antarctica
New research shows affected areas are losing ice five times faster than in the 1990s, with more than 100m of thickness gone in some places
Heavy metals and harmful chemicals 'poison Europe's seas'
414 million pieces of plastic found on remote island group in Indian Ocean
'One day we'll disappear': Tuvalu's sinking islands
Heavy metals and harmful chemicals 'poison Europe's seas'
414 million pieces of plastic found on remote island group in Indian Ocean
'One day we'll disappear': Tuvalu's sinking islands
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Carbon emissions in the US actually increased last year
Trump's interior secretary: I haven't 'lost sleep' over record CO2 levels
Labour will announce plans on Thursday to seize back control of Britain’s energy network from private shareholders in an effort to fight climate change and end fuel poverty.
Jeremy Corbyn to make pledge as part of party’s ‘green industrial revolution’
Eight million jobs, $9tn in spending: Jay Inslee's radical plan to tackle climate change
Labour will announce plans on Thursday to seize back control of Britain’s energy network from private shareholders in an effort to fight climate change and end fuel poverty.
Jeremy Corbyn to make pledge as part of party’s ‘green industrial revolution’
Eight million jobs, $9tn in spending: Jay Inslee's radical plan to tackle climate change
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Monday, 13 May 2019
Sunday, 12 May 2019
Saturday, 11 May 2019
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: ‘Denying climate change is evil’
The octogenarian entrepreneur, who prefers gardening to meetings, says capitalism is destroying earth
“I’d like to see an end to public corporations because we’re not going to revolutionise them, we’re not going to change them”
Our best hope for change lies with consumers, Chouinard maintains:
“You’ve got to change the consumers first and then the corporations will follow and then government will follow the corporations. They [governments] are last in line.”
“I’d like to see an end to public corporations because we’re not going to revolutionise them, we’re not going to change them”
Our best hope for change lies with consumers, Chouinard maintains:
“You’ve got to change the consumers first and then the corporations will follow and then government will follow the corporations. They [governments] are last in line.”
Friday, 10 May 2019
'Exterminator of the future':
Brazil's Bolsonaro denounced for environmental assault
Anna Jean Kaiser in São Paulo
@annajkaiser
Thu 9 May 2019 07.00 BST
Jair Bolsonaro is transforming Brazil into an “exterminator of the future”, the activist and politician Marina Silva has warned, as she and seven other former environment ministers denounced the far-right president’s assault on rainforest protections.
The eight former ministers – who served governments across the political spectrum over nearly 30 years – warned on Wednesday that Bolsonaro’s government was systematically trying to destroy Brazil’s environmental protection policies.
“We are watching them deconstruct everything we’ve put together,” said José Sarney Filho, who served as environmental minister under the rightwing presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Michel Temer.
“We’re talking about biodiversity, life, forests … the Amazon has an incredibly important role in global warming. It’s the world’s air conditioner; it regulates rain for the entire continent.”
Silva, the environment minister under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said: “What is happening is a dismantling, taking education and the environment and making them ideological issues.”
She said the government risked “transforming our country into the exterminator of the future – and we can’t let that happen”.
Bolsonaro backers wage war on the rainforest
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Bolsonaro has been severely criticized at home and abroad for his claims that environmental protections hinder Brazil’s economic growth. He is a close ally of the powerful agribusiness lobby and during his campaign said that if he were elected he would not allocate “one more centimeter” of land to indigenous reserves.
Thursday, 9 May 2019
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Tuesday, 7 May 2019
Diary of a climate scientist:
'I see a mess of broken icebergs in the ocean'
Climate change takes centre stage in Australia's election
Two contenders for PM have very different messages about how to address environmental emergency
Climate change takes centre stage in Australia's election
Two contenders for PM have very different messages about how to address environmental emergency
Monday, 6 May 2019
Sunday, 5 May 2019
Friday, 3 May 2019
Thursday, 2 May 2019
'We've no time to waste'
Corbyn opens debate saying MPs should declare climate emergency
Here is the Labour motion. It is saying the Commons should declare a climate emergency.
That this house declares an environment and climate emergency following the finding of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that to avoid a more than 1.5°C rise in global warming, global emissions would need to fall by around 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching net zero by around 2050; recognises the devastating impact that volatile and extreme weather will have on UK food production, water availability, public health and through flooding and wildfire damage; notes that the UK is currently missing almost all of its biodiversity targets, with an alarming trend in species decline, and that cuts of 50% to the funding of Natural England are counterproductive to tackling those problems; calls on the government to increase the ambition of the UK’s climate change targets under the Climate Change Act 2008 to achieve net zero emissions before 2050, to increase support for and set ambitious, short-term targets for the roll-out of renewable and low carbon energy and transport, and to move swiftly to capture economic opportunities and green jobs in the low carbon economy while managing risks for workers and communities currently reliant on carbon intensive sectors; and further calls on the government to lay before the house within the next six months urgent proposals to restore the UK’s natural environment and to deliver a circular, zero waste economy.
Environment secretary calls for cross-party approach as Labour leader says vote can ‘set off wave of action’
Four charts that show how the UK stacks up on climate change
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Sunday, 28 April 2019
We must have a green industrial revolution
We must draw on our history to find a way through the environmental crisis that faces us
National crisis? or international crisis of global capitalism?
National crisis? or international crisis of global capitalism?
Saturday, 27 April 2019
This Is Not a Drill
“This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know it. Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel. This is a book of truth and action.”
Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections
Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections
Friday, 26 April 2019
"the Great Debate"
The Guardian photographer Sean Smith has spent every day with the climate change group Extinction Rebellion during their two weeks of protests in central London
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