Climate Change

“Grand Coalitions” With Big Oil And Gas Won’t Solve The Climate Crisis

January 30, 2020 By Hannah McKinnon, Priceofoil.org Strategize! Climate Change, Oil and Gas

Over the course of the last year and a half, we have been pushing the International Energy Agency (IEA) to stop giving cover to the oil and gas industry and model a fossil fuel phase-out that’s fully in line with our climate goals. As the world’s foremost energy modeller, their scenarios – most notably those in the annual flagship World Energy Outlook (WEO) – shape countless political and financial energy decisions each year.

Blocking Trains And Removing Coal, Climate Activists Fight To Close One Of New England’s Largest Power Plants

January 28, 2020 Sarah Freeman-Woolpert and Arnie Alpert, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Activists, Climate Change, Power Plants

By escalating from symbolic actions to obstruction, the #NoCoalNoGas campaign is mounting a serious challenge to the fossil fuel industry with a growing network of climate activists. Under cover of darkness, dozens of climate activists snuck into the forest in the small town of Harvard, Massachusetts. The air was buzzing with nervous excitement as the group filed along a dirt path next to the railroad tracks, carrying heavy metal scaffolding.

After A Decade Of Fracking, Billions Of Dollars Lost And A Climate In Crisis

January 27, 2020 Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com Educate! Climate Change, Fracking, Oil

As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced in hundreds of years, which encircled much of the continent. So far, 29 people have been reported dead. A University of Sydney professor estimated the number of animals killed likely tops one billion.

Climate Migrants Still Face ‘Immense Disaster’

January 27, 2020 Alex Kirby, Climatenewsnetwork.net Educate! Climate Change, Displacement, Migration

LONDON, 22 January, 2020 − If you are a climate migrant, how urgent is urgent? Slowing, or even stopping, the damage humans are doing to the physical world through profligate use of fossil fuels and casual extermination of other species is urgent. But what we are allowing fellow humans to tolerate is just as urgent, though often less remarked. Many millions more will be forced to flee their homes in a world experiencing intensifying climate breakdown.

Global Banks, Led By JPMorgan Chase, Invested $1.9 Trillion In Fossil Fuels Since Paris Climate Pact

January 25, 2020 By Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com Educate! Banks, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels

A report published today names the banks that have played the biggest recent role in funding fossil fuel projects, finding that since 2016, immediately following the Paris Agreement's adoption, 33 global banks have poured $1.9 trillion into financing climate-changing projects worldwide. The top four banks that invested most heavily in fossil fuel projects are all based in the U.S., and include JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, and Bank of America. Royal Bank of Canada, Barclays in Europe, Japan’s MUFG, TD Bank, Scotiabank, and Mizuho make up the remainder of the top 10. This report comes as March has already brought deadly weather to places such as the American Midwest, where historic flooding has left four dead and farm losses could reach $1 billion...

Indigenous Leaders Call On Minister Wilkinson To Reject The Teck Frontier Mine

January 22, 2020 Staff, Indigenousclimateaction.com Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Mining

January 20, 2020, Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territories - Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) gathered Indigenous leaders and land defenders outside Minister Wilkinson’s office in North Vancouver to raise alarm about the impacts of the Teck Frontier Mine proposal - the largest proposed open-pit tar sands mine. Members from the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), Tiny House Warriors, Smith’s Landing First Nation, and Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Network came together to assert inherent Indigenous rights and put the Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change...

Ninth Circuit Dismisses Youth Climate Suit, While Agreeing Government Policy Is Destroying The Planet

January 21, 2020 Staff, Static1.squarespace.com Educate! Climate Change, Lawsuit, Youth Activism

Eugene, Oregon - Today, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals “reluctantly” concluded that the youth plaintiffs’ case in Juliana v. United States must be made to the Congress, the President, or to the electorate at large. The decision finds federal courts cannot provide the youth with a remedy for their climate change injuries. In her dissent, District Judge Josephine L. Staton wrote that the youth plaintiffs brought suit to enforce the most basic structural principal embedded in our system of liberty...

Louisiana Tribes File Complaint With United Nations Over U.S. Inaction On Climate Change

January 21, 2020 Sara Sneath, Nola.com Resist! Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Louisiana, United Nations

Four coastal Louisiana tribes that claim the U.S. government has violated their human rights by failing to take action on climate change submitted a formal complaint Wednesday to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Sea-level rise and coastal erosion are drowning tribal burial sites in South Louisiana, according to the complaint. Continued land loss further threatens the tribes' source of food, said Shirell Parfait-Dardar, chief of the Grand Caillou and Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians.

CLDC Seeks To Assert Climate Necessity Defense In Response To Extinction Rebellion Portland Protest Charges

January 20, 2020 By Lauren Regan, Cldc.org Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Portland, Protests

Portland, OR — Yesterday CLDC attorneys, joined by co-counsel and Portland attorney Kenneth Kreuscher, filed a brief in the Multnomah County Circuit Court on behalf of our clients, a group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Portland activists, to put the State of Oregon on notice that we intend to present an affirmative defense known as the “necessity” or “choice of evils” defense.

Harvard Law School Students Disrupt Recruitment Event, Calling On Major Law Firm To #DropExxon

January 17, 2020 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Harvard, Higher Education, Student Activism

Over 100 students from Harvard Law School staged a public protest against a recruitment dinner hosted by law firm Paul Weiss on Wednesday night, calling for the company to cut ties with fossil fuel giant Exxon. In a statement, the demonstrators said they were taking action because of the severity of the climate crisis. "This is a do-or-die moment in human history," said student Aaron Regunberg, one of the action's leaders, in a statement. "We have just a few years left to rein in corporate polluters and address the climate crisis."

The Lie Of JetBlue Going Carbon Neutral

January 17, 2020 By Anne Petermann, Globaljusticeecology.org Educate! Airlines, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment

The Washington Post recently published an article that “Jet Blue plans to go completely carbon neutral on all U.S. Flights.” While this sounds like a delightful and guilt-free way to keep on flying, this move by Jet Blue is nothing short of a ploy to manufacture a green veneer for their very UN-green activities. For an excellent analysis of the language behind “green” schemes such as this that actually accelerate environmental destruction and human rights abuses, please listen to the Earth Minute above and then read this piece from the latest World Rainforest Movement Bulletin.

‘Saving Life On Earth’ For Just $100 Billion: New Roadmap Shows How US Can Address Global Extinction Crisis

January 15, 2020 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Create! Climate Change, Earth, Environment

As the United Nations unveiled Monday a draft proposal to address threats to biodiversity, a new report outlined a strategy for U.S.-focused "visionary action to save life on Earth." The roadmap (pdf) was released Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity. It lays out specific steps for the United States to help end the global extinction crisis. From the ongoing "insect apocalypse" to the deterioration of "ecosystems on which we and all other species depend" to the hurtling of roughly one million plant and animal species to the brink of extinction...

Revealed: US Listed Climate Activist Group As ‘Extremists’ Alongside Mass Killers

January 15, 2020 Adam Federman, Theguardian.com Resist! Climate Change, Mass killing

DHS listed activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting oil industry alongside white supremacists in documents. A group of US environmental activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting the oil industry have been listed in internal Department of Homeland Security documents as “extremists” and some of its members listed alongside white nationalists and mass killers, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.

Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely With Oil Industry To Oppose Climate Lawsuits

January 14, 2020 By David Hasemyer, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Corruption, Department of Justice, Lawsuit, Oil

In early 2018, a few months after the cities of Oakland and San Francisco sued several major oil companies over climate change, attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice began a series of email exchanges and meetings with lawyers for the oil companies targeted in the litigation. At one point, Eric Grant, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, sent an email to Indiana's solicitor general saying that his "boss" had asked him to set up a meeting to go over a plan for the government to intercede in the cases on the companies' behalf.

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