By Laurie Stone This past year saw many memorable moments, from vaccine rollouts to a new Ghostbusters movie to Bernie Sanders’ mittens going viral. But it also saw real progress on climate action. Here we list our top 15 climate developments of 2021, in no particular order. US Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement The … [continued]
Was it only last week that Shell CEO Ben van Beurden was telling anyone who would listen that his company needs to participate in more oil field developments like the proposed Cambo project so it can earn enough money to fund its transition to a low carbon business model? Yes, … [continued]
Despite the promises made at COP26, the world is still on track for a dangerous amount of warming.
A list of the world’s most distinguished people are demanding that world leaders negotiate a global transition to a plant-based food system to avoid crossing “planetary tipping points.”
Toyota’s embrace of the internal combustion engine and hydrogen has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. Spearheaded by the pigheaded antics of Akio Toyoda, Toyota is celebrating the fact that it refused to sign a pledge to eliminate infernal combustion engines in Glasgow last week by forming Team Japan. … [continued]
COP26 has ended with empty promises. What else did you expect?
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Elliott Negin President Joe Biden kicked off the United Nations’ 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this month by warning delegates that there is only a “brief window left before us to raise our ambitions, and to [rise] to meet the … [continued]
By The Co-Executive Directors of Coltura, Matthew Metz and Janelle London of Coltura. Coltura is a Seattle-based nonprofit whose mission is to improve climate, health, and equity by accelerating the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. Coltura’s vision is of a gasoline-free America by 2040 or sooner. World … [continued]
Fossil fuel subsidies are a crashed tractor trailer of razor wire, soaked in oil and sewage, rolled in jagged glass, and sprayed with arsenic.
With the circus that is COP26 grinding inexorably along, the focus is now moving from coal (where some progress is being made — like the tide, though, with countries like Poland making pledges and then withdrawing their pledges) to unnatural gas. Long touted as a transitional fuel from coal to … [continued]
