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'Brutal News': Global Carbon Emissions Jump to All-Time High in 2018
According to a new Global Carbon Project report, emissions are heading in the opposite direction to the deep cuts that are urgently needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
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U.S. and Canada Promise to Lead World To Low-Carbon Economy
The shared vision unveiled by Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau on Thursday commits the two countries to promote North American carbon markets, widely cap oil and gas well emissions, and protect at-risk indigenous communities.
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Paris Dispatch: Baselines for Our Occupying Earth Have Been Breached
In the global slugfest going on now in Paris over feasible outcomes and future dangers, the relevant – and unprecedented – number to remember is 400 parts per million of carbon in the air.
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Hawaii’s Governor Announces Bold Plan to Make State 100% Renewable By 2045
David Ige’s decisive and ambitious energy vision is making Hawaii into the world’s most important laboratory in the fight against climate change – revealing an unlikely partnership between local government and the U.S. military.
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Obama's Clean Power Plan Hailed As America's Strongest Ever Climate Action
The rules are expected to trigger a “tsunami” of legal opposition from states and utilities who oppose the plans, which will significantly boost wind and solar power generation and force a switch away from coal power.
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Dutch Government Ordered to Cut Carbon Emissions In Landmark Ruling
A court in The Hague ordered Holland to slash emissions by at least 25% within five years to face the threat posed by climate change – a historic ruling that's expected to cause ripples around the world.
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Saving Our World With Big Ideas – Now Or Never On Climate Change
It's time to call out with very loud voices for what we really need: a global energy revolution accompanied by a global land use revolution – because nothing less will do.
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Weeklong Protests in Capital Target Industry's Grip On Policy
There were daily conflicts with police at each entrance to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and over 100 arrests during the course of the week.
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It's the Inequality, Stupid: Achieving Doughnut Economics to Solve Climate Change
There is a safe and just, sweet spot between social and planetary boundaries – and we need to find our way into this doughnut, quickly, by tackling today's vast resource inequalities.
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Why The Climate Fix and the Economic Reboot Will Happen Together
Four years in the making, this Political Economy Research Institute study shows the level of U.S. investment to achieve necessary carbon cut targets and generate 2.7 million new jobs.
