Climate Change

27/10/21
Author: 
Oilwatch International
Image - net zero is not real zero

Net zero emissions and other false solutions allow polluters to continue polluting

Declaration adopted by the Oilwatch International Global Gathering in Nigeria, October 19-21.

26/10/21
Author: 
Morgan Sharp
Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners struck a skeptical tone at the Youth4Climate event in Milan in September. Photo by Felton Davis / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Oct. 26, 2021

Young people who attended a recent youth climate conference in Milan, Italy, presented their list of demands for world leaders Monday ahead of a United Nations meeting aimed at trying to avoid environmental devastation.

26/10/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Gasoline cars are even more CO2-intensive than coal power plants. And in Canada, it is gasoline, not coal, that has been driving climate failure. Original photo credits Sarunas Burdulis and Ruben de Rijcke (Wikimedia)

[Editor: But shouldn't we be putting our efforts into public transit not buying EVs?  see: Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26  https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/article/deconstructing-electric-vehicles-eve-glasgow-cop26]

Oct. 26, 2021

26/10/21
Author: 
John Woodside
mother and child in flood - Without rich countries making the money available to poorer countries to transition to a clean economy, holding onto the Paris goal of 1.5 C will be out of reach. Photo by World Meteorological Organization(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

October 26th 2021

On Monday, days ahead of a critical UN climate conference, Canada’s Climate Minister Jonathan Wilkinson admitted rich countries have failed to meet a critical international climate financing milestone, and are unlikely to reach it for years to come.

25/10/21
Author: 
Brent Patterson
Photos: Prime Minister Trudeau addresses the United Nations in September 2016, the RCMP raid Wet’suwet’en territory in January 2019.

 

If the Canadian government continues to enable the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders opposed to fossil fuel megaprojects, it will continue to miss the carbon emission reduction targets it has pledged at United Nations climate summits.

25/10/21
Author: 
Ecosocialist Alliance
ECOSOCIALISM NOT EXTINCTION!

October 24, 2021

This statement was drafted by the Ecosocialist Alliance, a UK-based coalition organized by Green Left, Left Unity and Anti-Capitalist Resistance. After discussion and adoption of amendments proposed the Global Ecosocialist Network, it has been endorsed by a wide range of individuals and groups, including Climate & Capitalism. It will be distributed at COP26, the United Nations climate conference that opens on October 31 in Glasgow.


ECOSOCIALISM NOT EXTINCTION!

25/10/21
Author: 
Cloe Logan

October 25th 2021

Thousands of dormant well sites dot the landscape of British Columbia, and new rules make some in the province concerned oil and gas companies will delay cleaning them up.

23/10/21
Author: 
First Nations leaders

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