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Can Climate Movement Break Free From ‘Jobs Vs. Environment’ Debate?

May 2, 2016 Kate Aronoff, www.wagingnonviolence.org ,
By Kate Aronoff for Waging Nonviolence - For two weeks this May, organizers across 12 countries will participate in Break Free 2016, an open-source invitation to encourage “more action to keep fossil fuels in the ground and an acceleration in the just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.” Many of the month’s events — pulled together by 350.org and a slew of groups around the world — are set to take place within ongoing campaigns to shut down energy infrastructure, targeting “some of the most iconic and dangerous fossil fuel projects all over the world” with civil disobedience.

Targeting Trudeau’s Climate Plan With Indigenous Action

April 29, 2016 Eriel Deranger, www.nationalobserver.com , ,
By Eriel Deranger for National Observer - UNDRIP is an international declaration that is built on a premise of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). Or, more plainly, Indigenous rights to not just participate in decision making processes but the right to say "no." This position is in addition to the already existing fiduciary and legal obligation of the federal government to ensure adequate and meaningful consultation occurs with respect to any laws, legislation and land management that may affect our inherent and treaty rights in the country.

Using “Public Trust” To Frame “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Actions

April 28, 2016 Staff, www.usa.breakfree2016.org , ,
By Staff of Break Free 2016 - Fundamental principles embodied in the laws and constitutions of countries around the world provide strong bases for such a claim. Basic human and constitutional rights include the unalienable rights to life and liberty. Under the “public trust doctrine,” governments must manage the vital natural resources on which human well-being depends for the benefit of all present and future generations. Governments have no right to authorize their destruction to the detriment of constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. These legal rights can serve as an important frame for the public messaging and legal strategy of climate-protecting civil disobedience.

Chris Hedges, Tim DeChristopher On Effects Of Climate Change

April 28, 2016 Chris Hedges and Tim DeChristopher, www.truthdig.com
By Chris Hedges and Tim DeChristopher for Truth Dig - In this week’s episode of “Days of Revolt,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges sits down with Tim DeChristopher, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center. The two analyze how the industrialized world fails to significantly confront climate change, beginning with the “exercise in make-believe” that was the 2015 Paris climate conference. DeChristopher explains that the drastic effects of global warming aren’t just occurring in a vacuum.

Climate Scientists Are Now Grading Climate Journalism

April 28, 2016 Daniel Nethery and Emmanuel Vincent, www.theguardian.com ,
By Daniel Nethery and Emmanuel Vincent for The Guardian - The internet represents an extraordinary opportunity for democracy. Never before has it been possible for people from all over the world to access the latest information and collectively seek solutions to the challenges which face our planet, and not a moment too soon: the year 2015 was the hottest in human history, and the Great Barrier Reef is suffering the consequences of warming oceans right now.

Warren Buffett Faces Pressure To Invest For Climate, Not Just For Profit

April 27, 2016 Nicholas Kusnetz, www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By Nicholas Kusnetz for Inside Climate News - Thousands of bankers, investors, business journalists and just plain fans will flock to Omaha, Neb., on Saturday in a yearly pilgrimage to glean insight from the world's most famous investor: Warren Buffett. What they are unlikely to get is any guiding wisdom on climate change, even though the world's most famous climate scientist, James Hansen, will be among the attendees pushing for it. The occasion is the annual shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway...

In Detroit, Fighting Hopelessness With A Climate Plan

April 27, 2016 David J. Unger, www.cinsideclimatenews.org ,
By David J. Unger for Inside Climate News - DETROIT, Mich.—As major cities across the globe begin to take a leading role in the world's response to climate change, one U.S. metropolis has a decidedly grassroots approach to preparing for a wetter, warmer world. In Detroit—a city that faces a myriad of pressing socioeconomic and environmental challenges—local residents are working on a plan to mitigate the long-term impacts of climate change. Unlike the climate action plans drafted by city governments in places like New York, Chicago and Boston, Detroit's green roadmap is spearheaded by the Detroit Climate Action Collaborative

With Signing Of Paris Treaty, Failures Of Governments Continue

April 23, 2016 Staff, www.foei.org ,
By Staff of FOEI - On 22 April 2016, representatives of over 130 nations are expected to attend the signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This brings parties one step closer towards ratifying the Agreement - with each nation turning their intended pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (known as INDCs) into their agreed actual contribution to the climate effort.

Open Letter To UNFCCC Climate Secretariat & IPCC

April 20, 2016 Dr. Peter Carter and Howard Breen, www.urgentclimateandoceanrapidresponse.org ,
By Dr. Peter Carter and Howard Breen for Urgent Climate And Ocean Rapid Response - VICTORIA, British Columbia, 18 April 2016 / UCORR / - On the eve of the signing of the Paris Agreement by 130 countries in New York on 22 April 2016, Urgent Climate and Ocean Rapid Response (UCORR) calls on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and UN Climate Secretariat to declare a "Global State of Climate and Oceans Emergency" in collective response to the weak attempt by world leaders to avert climate collapse, in the face of the currently accelerating increases in global temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Columbia Divest For Climate Justice Protesters Plan Sit-In At Low Library

April 18, 2016 Catie Edmondson, Teo Armus, and Cauver Suresh, www.columbiaspectator.com , , ,
By Catie Edmondson, Teo Armus, and Cauver Suresh for Columbia Daily Spectator - Sixteen members of Columbia Divest for Climate Justice are conducting an indefinite sit-in inside Low Library to demand that the University divest from the fossil fuel industry. The group—which has been campaigning for this goal since its founding in fall 2012—may be in potential violation of the Rules of Conduct. While CDCJ had a meeting with Bollinger scheduled for Apr. 29, the group is demanding for Bollinger to meet with them immediately and issue a statement in support of divesting from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies.

Divest Harvard Protesters Arrested At Investment Building

April 17, 2016 Luca F. Scroeder, www.thecrimson.com , , ,
By Luca F. Scroeder for the Crimson. Police arrested several members of the student activist group Divest Harvard after they staged a sit-in within the lobby of the Boston Federal Reserve Tuesday afternoon, protesting Harvard Management Company’s investment in the fossil fuel industry. Four members of Divest Harvard protested in the building, which houses HMC, the University’s investment arm that manages its $37.6 billion endowment. Members of Divest Harvard identified the arrested protesters as Naima Drecker-Waxman ’18, Applied Physics graduate student Benjamin Franta, School of Public Health student Rory Stewart, and Adam Cory Vander Tuig, a student at the Divinity School and Memorial Church seminarian. About 25 students, faculty members, and alumni who support Divest Harvard held a rally outside of the building at the same time.

100% Renewables Or Climate Chaos? People Power Needed

April 16, 2016 PatrickMazza, www.cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com ,
By Patrick Mazza for Cascadia Planet - We now know we can run the world 100% on clean, renewable energy. The question is whether we can do it in time to prevent the world from plunging into full-blown climate chaos. An avalanche of studies points the way to a 100% world largely based on wind and solar energy. They illuminate how to reach 100% in all sectors – electricity, transportation, and heating/cooling – by 2050. Most prominent are roadmaps for 139 countries and 50 U.S. states done by Stanford’s Mark Jacobson and his team, and the Energy Revolution series done by Greenpeace. There are many others.

Exxon Fights Subpoena Widening Climate Probe

April 15, 2016 Bob Simison and David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By Bob Simison and David Hasemyer for Inside Climate Change - ExxonMobil Corp. sued to block a subpoena issued last month by the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands seeking almost 40 years of documents on climate change. In his demand for records, Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker said Exxon may have violated the territory's anti-racketeering law, defrauding the government and consumers with the company's statements on climate change. It is the first time a prosecutor has cited racketeering law to probe Exxon over its longtime denial of climate change and its products' role in it, according to legal authorities.

Canada’s NDP Retires Mulcair, Adopts Leap Manifesto On Climate

April 12, 2016 Staff, www.cbc.ca ,
By Staff of The Canadian Press - “Whatever its merits, the NDP did NOT adopt the Leap Manifesto at its convention. In fact, they adopted a compromise resolution that sent it back to be discussed, examined, debated, etc, etc, by NDP riding associations which will then bring back all the fruits of their labours to the 2018 convention where a version of the manifesto that may or may not have been modified may or may not be adopted.”

Victory In Landmark Climate Case Recognizes Public Trust In Resources

April 10, 2016 Our Children's Trust, www.PopularResistance.org ,
By Our Children's Trust. On April 8, 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin of the federal District Court in Eugene, OR, decided in favor of 21 young Plaintiffs, and Dr. James Hansen on behalf of future generations, in their landmark constitutional climate change case brought against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry. The Court’s ruling is a major victory for the 21 youth Plaintiffs, ages 8-19, from across the U.S. in what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein call the “most important lawsuit on the planet right now.” These plaintiffs sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property, and their right to essential public trust resources, by permitting, encouraging, and otherwise enabling continued exploitation, production, and combustion of fossil fuels.
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