Yeb Saño, Greenpeace International’s COP27 Head of Delegation, said: “As climate impacts and injustice accelerate, lives, livelihoods, cultures and even whole countries are lost, the latest draft cover note from the COP27 Presidency pushes the pedal to the metal on the highway to climate hell.” “We came to Sharm el-Sheikh to demand real action on […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today approved the staff recommendation to surrender the license for the four lower PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon and begin the dam removal process. By Dan Bacher The vote follows the August 27th release of the FERC staff’s final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) recommending the removal […]
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt— In a press statement issued today, a global river and human rights coalition at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP27) called both on governments to avoid including new large hydropower projects in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and financiers to avoid funding projects due to the climate and human rights […]
The Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib), together with its grassroots organizations, is present at the 27th UN Conference on Climate Change to reaffirm what needs to be done to tackle the global climate crisis: RECOGNIZE AND GUARANTEE LAND TENURE RIGHTS OF OUR INDIGENOUS LANDS! By Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (The […]
On November 17 at 7 am PST, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will vote on the staff recommendation to surrender the license for the four lower PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River and begin the dam removal process. In an action celebrated by Klamath Basin Tribes, conservationists and fishing groups, the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
For the Banaban people, the threat of being displaced from their homes by increasingly frequent cyclones reopens old wounds. They were forced by British colonial rulers to leave their ancestral homeland 77 years ago after phosphate mining led by the UK, New Zealand and Australia stripped 90% of the surface of their Pacific coral island – […]
The costs of climate-related disasters are growing and the poorest countries are bearing the brunt of impacts, from the unprecedented floods in Pakistan to the expanding famine in Somalia. Natural disasters in 2022 alone cost the global economy an estimated US$227 billion. Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne The Conversation Such disasters are driving calls […]
Wisconsin is the ulimate tipping-point state, and November is key. We can flip a Senate seat blue by electing Mandela Barnes, re-elect Democratic governor Tony Evers & protect his veto by blocking dangerous MAGA extremists from seizing a supermajority in a very gerrymandered state. Mandela Barnes has a strong record of taking the climate crisis […]
Just like we helped Democrats flip Georgia in 2020, North Carolina can be next. And we can elect Cheri Beasley to flip a GOP-held Senate seat. Cheri Beasley knows that the US must tackle the climate crisis, and must do it now. She supports efforts to reduce carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030, investing in […]
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is running for a full term, against a dangerous MAGA extremist. Arizona also has a governor’s race where a MAGA extremist is running, and key state legislative races too. Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, knows that climate-magnified Phoenix heatwaves literally kill Arizonans. As an astronaut, he’s […]
Democrat John Fetterman is running a strong campaign for U.S. Senate, where we can flip the GOP-held seat and grow our majority. “I believe that climate change is an existential threat, and we need to transition to clean energy as quickly as possible. But we must do it in a way that preserves the union […]
Val Demings is taking on Marco Rubio, one of the worst Senators on climate and clean energy. Florida is a closely divided state, where your help could put a solidly pro-climate Democrat in the Senate. “Here in Florida, our environment is our greatest treasure and our most important economic engine. Florida’s natural beauty, beautiful beaches, […]
You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP27. It refers to the costs, both economic and physical, that developing countries are facing from climate change impacts. Many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries have done little […]
Heat waves, droughts and extreme weather are endangering people and ecosystems somewhere in the world almost every day. These extremes are exacerbated by climate change, driven primarily by increasing emissions of greenhouse gases that build up in the atmosphere and trap heat at the Earth’s surface. Sonja Klinsky, Arizona State University and Terre Satterfield, […]
With the midterm elections just weeks away, CCL volunteers nationwide are working hard to push the issue of climate change in candidates’ platforms and fellow voters’ minds. To date, CCLers have conducted 1,144 nonpartisan election season activities since June, charging ahead toward our national goal of 2,000 by election day on Nov. 8. By Flannery Winchester […]