individual and political action on climate change
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Greta Thunberg ‘Urgently’ Seeks Help to Evacuate Afghan Youth Climate Activists
Fridays For Future — the global climate strike organisation that was founded three years ago by Greta Thunberg — is in trouble. On Thursday, the Twitter account repping the group’s activists working in the “Most Affected Peoples and Areas” (MAPA) put out a desperate plea begging for anyone with resources to help evacuate members currently…
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What the U.S.’s ‘Fair Share’ of Emissions Reductions Looks Like
The U.S. is the largest historical contributor to planet-warming pollution, responsible for around a quarter of all carbon dioxide ever put in the atmosphere. In the pursuit of just international climate policy, remediating those emissions requires much more than climate pledge U.S. President Joe Biden just announced.
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New UN Climate Report Puts the World on ‘Red Alert’ for Climate Catastrophe
Leading climate scientists are freaking out. That’s a clear takeaway from the latest report commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international body that represents the 197 signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement, which was released Friday.