Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Activists have said they intend to hold feet to the fire on the new administration’s ambitious climate agenda, but so far they haven’t had to. On day one, Biden signed executive orders to rejoin the Paris Agreement, scuttle the Keystone XL pipeline, and consider revisions to […]
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For there is always light If only we’re brave enough to see it If only we’re brave enough to be it. Those are the closing words of “The Hill We Climb,” the stunning poem Amanda Gorman, the first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, delivered yesterday at the inauguration of now-president Joe Biden and […]
Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. It’s doubtful that Donald Trump or the bloodthirsty armed supporters who invaded the US Capitol threatening to kidnap or kill Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi were thinking much about climate change […]
It’s doubtful that Donald Trump or the bloodthirsty armed supporters who invaded the US Capitol threatening to kidnap or kill Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi were thinking much about climate change at the time. Nevertheless, the mob Trump unleashed to try to overturn his election defeat was an assault […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Humanity begins 2021 with a real chance to pull back from the brink of climate catastrophe. The odds get even better if Democrats win both Georgia run-off elections and take control of the US Senate. (At the time of writing, someoutlets had reported a victory for […]
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. “I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their own countries until carbon neutrality is reached.” So said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his speech to the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the […]
On January 5, voters in Georgia will decide which political party controls the US Senate and, in turn, how far President-elect Joe Biden will be able to take his ambitious $2 trillion climate plan. For Democrats to take control of the Senate, Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both need to win their runoffs against […]
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“I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their own countries until carbon neutrality is reached.” So said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his speech to the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Guterres’s appeal seemed aimed at leaders of […]
Read More… from Journalists Have a Moral Obligation to Declare a Climate Emergency
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. In another sign that climate change has finally become a top-tier issue among American journalists, the fate of the planet featured prominently in last Sunday’s debates in the Georgia run-off elections that will determine control of the US Senate. After decades of the climate issue being […]