This page brings together global news 2019, on Climate action, highlighting innovative strategies and community efforts that recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations. / 2018
- ‘My moment’: the activists fighting climate crisis and winning elections, Dec 25, 2019...The Guardian
- Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action, Dec 20, 2019...The Guardian
- 2019 has been a year of climate disaster. Yet still our leaders procrastinate, Geoff Goldrick, Dec 20, 2019...The Guardian
- Australia's bushfires have emitted 250m tonnes of CO2, almost half of country's annual emissions, Dec 13, 2019...The Guardian
- Climate change to steer all New Zealand government decisions from now on, Dec 4, 2019...The Guardian
- Climate change strike: thousands of school students protest over bushfires, Nov 29[1]
- Climate change: 'Bleak' outlook as carbon emissions gap grows, Nov 26[2]
- Climate change: Greenhouse gas concentrations again break records, Nov 25[3]
- Oxford Dictionaries declares 'climate emergency' the word of 2019, Nov 21[4]
- Fossil fuel production on track for double the safe climate limit, Nov 20[5]
Climate change: Irish Youth Assembly demands action, Nov 16[6]
- Venice floods: Climate change behind highest tide in 50 years, says mayor, Nov 13[7]
- Is climate change to blame for Australia's bushfires? Nov 11[8]
- Australia bushfires: 'Unprecedented' fires turn skies orange, Nov 8[9]
- Ardern says New Zealand on 'right side of history' as MPs pass zero-carbon bill, Nov 7[10]
- Climate change: ‘Clear and unequivocal’ emergency, say scientists, Nov 5[11]
Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly, Nov 2[12]
- Parliamentary Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change – A first step, but a devastating missed opportunity, Extinction Rebellion, Nov 2[13]
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- Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point', Oct 23[1]
- To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II, Oct 21[2]
- What does Greta Thunberg's call for equity mean? Oct 3[3]
If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Greta Thunberg, Sep 23[4]
- Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks, Sep 22[5]
For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth, George Monbiot, Sep 19[6]
- Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says, Sep 16[7]
- How much destruction is needed for us to take climate change seriously? Sep 3[8]
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- Embracing climate activism, Aug 27[1]
Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs, Aug 22[2]
- How Copenhagen plans to reach carbon-neutral status in just six years, Aug 20[3]
- Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming, Aug 13[4]
Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition', Aug 1[5]
- Ethiopia 'breaks' tree-planting record to tackle climate change, Jul 29[6]
- Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons, Jul 26[7]
- Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries, Jul 14[8]
- Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis – report, Jul 4[9]
- Enough of the climate nightmare. It’s time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband, Jul 4[10]
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- Italy becomes first country to require climate change studies in schools, Jun 11[1]
- Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050, Jun 11[2]
Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis, May 22[3]
- Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change, May 13[4]
- UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency, Claire Mitchell, May 1[5]
- Parents around the world mobilise behind youth climate strikes, Apr 3[6]
- Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? Phil McDuff, Mar 18[7]
- UK’s CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018, Mar 4[8]
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- Costa Rica unveils plan to achieve zero emissions by 2050 in climate change fight, Feb 25[1]
- Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action, Feb 15[2]
- How teenage girls defied skeptics to build a new climate movement, Feb 13[3]
- UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis, Feb 8[4]
- The children skipping school aren't ruining the planet – you are, Srećko Horvat, Feb 6[5]
- Government still not tackling climate change? So sue them, Jan 12[6]
- Britain has shifted 30% of its electricity away from fossil fuels in just nine years, Jan 10[7]
- Climate change: 'Right to repair' gathers force, Jan 9[8]
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- Climate change talks lead to heightened pledge to cut emissions, Dec 12, 2018...The Guardian. EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C
- Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO, Dec 5, 2018...The Guardian.
- With a Green New Deal, here's what the world could look like for the next generation, Dec 5, 2018...theintercept.com.
- Bristol to Brooklyn, Paris to Pittsburgh: restless cities act themselves on climate crisis, Dec 1, 2018...The Alternative UK.
- Climate change: Australian students skip school for mass protest, Nov 30[1]
- CO2 emissions rising for first time in four years, Nov 27[2]
- Young people are about to utterly transform climate politics, in the UK and US, Nov 21[3]
Communities lead governments on climate action, Nov 14[4]
- My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat. Rob Hopkins, Nov 8[5]
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- South Bronx teens get creative about climate change, Oct 23[1]
Fracking protesters walk free after court quashes 'excessive' sentences, Oct 17[2]
- Top climate scientist blasts UK’s fracking plans as 'aping Trump’, Oct 13[3]
- A City That Takes Climate Change Seriously: Paris, Oct 10[4]
- Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling, Oct 9[5]
- Final call to save the world from 'climate catastrophe', Oct 8[6]
- The planet is burning - and you know it. How should you behave with family, friends, fellow citizens? Oct 1[7]
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- California Ups Its Clean Energy Game With 100% Zero-Carbon Electricity Vote, Aug 29[1]
- Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals, Martin Lukacs, Jul 17[2]
- Balearic Islands bank on their sun to kickstart power drive, Adam Vaughan, May 4[3]
New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future', Apr 12[4]
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- The environmental case for keeping the clocks on summer time – all the time, Mar 28[1]
- Helsinki unveils plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2035, Mar 21[2]
- UK carbon emissions in 2017 fell to levels last seen in 1890, Mar 7[3]
Cape Town’s water crisis shows the reality for cities on the front line of climate change, Mar 1[4]
- Why the world is looking to the Philippines for climate justice, Feb 22[5]
- Spain: Balearics launch pioneering plan to phase out emissions, Feb 15[6]
- Talking climate, taking action – a quest for belonging, Feb 12[7]
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