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Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Oct 28, 2024) - If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor, Tim Winton, theguardian.com (Oct 26, 2024)
- The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
- Why we need to talk about older people and climate change in Africa, theconversation.com (Sep 30, 2024)
- ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges, theguardian.com (Sep 27, 2024)
- Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged, theguardian.com (Sep 23, 2024) — Comment: Bolder: whole of housing zero emissions by 2035 or sooner! including new build & (acknowledged & reduced) embodied emissions, plus similar for local areas so communities can gain democratic right to constrain their own emissions, wouldn't that be a really super tipping point? Philralph (talk) 15:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Billionaires Must Help Fix the Planet, foreignpolicy.com (Sep 20, 2024) — It’s time for the ultra-rich to take responsibility for their role in the climate crisis. Ban Ki-moon, former U.N. secretary-general
- The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
- South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?, theconversation.com (Sep 10, 2024)
- The resilience of women farmers in Chad battling climate challenges and social barriers, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- South Korea’s climate law violates rights of future generations, court rules, theguardian.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- Campaigners sue EU over ‘grossly inadequate’ 2030 climate targets, theguardian.com (Aug 27, 2024)
- Climate in the courtroom: all sides are using ‘green lawfare’, and it’s good for democracy, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- ‘Groundbreaking’: How children in Hawaii won landmark climate case, aljazeera.com (Jun 21, 2024)
- Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
May 2024[edit | edit source]
- ‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages, theguardian.com (May 31, 2024)
- Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their rights, theguardian.com (May 23, 2024)
- States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
- Climate change is a human rights issue, theconversation.com (May 20, 2024)
- German government must amend climate plan, court rules, dw.com (May 16, 2024)
- Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024)
- The Guardian asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future, theguardian.com (May 08, 2024)
April 2024[edit | edit source]
- Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- ‘Composting Our Emotions’: How Climate Action Cultivates Well-Being, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 30, 2024)
- First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism, theguardian.com (Apr 29, 2024)
- Principles for Community-Centred Climate Adaptation, Bridie Kennerley, bioregion.org.uk (Apr 23, 2024)
- ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need, theguardian.com (Apr 17, 2024)
- How Climate Impacts Mental Health in Africa, strongminds.org (Apr 10, 2024)
- Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
March 2024[edit | edit source]
- ‘Net-negative’ emissions update, carbonbrief.org (Mar 27, 2024) — includes listing of countries already at net-negative emissions and countries aiming for net-negative emissions
- Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, aljazeera.com/ (Mar 18, 2024)
- Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- Teen activist Anjali Sharma wages war on government climate inaction from dorm room, abc.net.au (Mar 11, 2024)
- How a Nigerian ecofeminist grew a climate movement, chinadialogue.net (Mar 08, 2024) — After witnessing the violent impacts of warming, Oladosu Adenike started a national movement empowering young people to take action
- The Māori climate activist breaking legal barriers to bring corporate giants to court, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)
February 2024[edit | edit source]
- When governments fund fossil fuels, it’s time to take them to court, climatechangenews.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Climate change is fanning the flames of NZ’s wildfire future. Port Hills is only the beginning, theconversation.com (Feb 22, 2024)
- University of Florida student senate passes ‘green new deal’, theguardian.com (Feb 21, 2024)
- ‘A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing, theguardian.com (Feb 07, 2024)
- These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 03, 2024)
January 2024[edit | edit source]
- Norway has made a vital climate leap. This is how Britain can do the same, Tessa Khan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2024)
- The sinking Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles was forced to pack up and move to safer ground. Many more US towns may soon need to follow in their footsteps, bbc.com/future (Jan 30, 2024)
- Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds, theguardian.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- Six ways inequality holds back climate action, theconversation.com (Jan 15, 2024)
- Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists, theguardian.com (Jan 13, 2024)
- As a psychologist I have witnessed a surge in climate grief. This is what I tell my clients, Carly Dober, theguardian.com (Jan 12, 2024)
- 2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin, theguardian.com (Jan 09, 2024)
- Analysis: Record opposition to climate action by UK’s right-leaning newspapers in 2023, carbonbrief.org (Jan 09, 2024)
- It’s 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters, Sammy Roth, latimes.com (Jan 04, 2024)
- I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong, Hannah Ritchie, theguardian.com (Jan 02, 2024)
News sources[edit | edit source]
- Press releases and media information from climateoutreach.org, added 16:22, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
- The Energy Mix, community news site and e-digest on climate change, energy, and the shift off carbon, published by Energy Mix Productions Inc., a Canadian non-profit headquartered on unceded Algonquin Anishnaabe territory, also known as Ottawa. We respect the sovereignty of the many Indigenous peoples and communities on whose land our work takes place. added 10:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
- News from climatecentral.org, added 10:52, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
- Articles on Climate change from theconversation.com
- Covering Climate Now, added 08:43, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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- Extinction Rebellion
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