Climate Change

05/08/20
Author: 
Oliver Milman
A woman drinks as children cool off in a public fountain in Milan, Italy, on 31 July. 2020 is set to be hottest or second hottest on record, in line with the longer-term trend of rising temperatures. Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP

4 Aug 2020

The growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising global temperatures will come close to eclipsing the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if planet-heating emissions are not constrained, a major new study has found.

29/07/20
Author: 
Richard D. Wolff
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21 Jul, 2020

The current global crisis triggered by Covid-19 is the third capitalist crash in this century. And governments’ incapacity to consider non-capitalist solutions threatens to keep deepening this crisis into capitalism’s worst.

29/07/20
Author: 
Cooperative and Policy Alternative Center & South African Food Sovereignty Campaign

As an example of a broad unity campaign, check out the Climate Justice Charter that has been developed by militants in South Africa; it is particular to their terrain:

https://www.safsc.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Climate-Justice-Charter-Draft1-2019.pdf

29/07/20
Author: 
David Macdonald
Could investments to tackle our climate emergency be deployed as quickly as the financial aid to help cushion COVID-19's economic destruction? Photo by Shutterstock

July 29th 2020

In any discussion of a transition to a zero carbon economy, the question of how we pay for it always arises. For example, while the private sector, businesses and households will often save big from the adoption of more efficient technologies, someone has to pay the upfront investments.

29/07/20
Author: 
Oil Change International
 

 

We aren’t asking you to sign a petition or donate – instead we’re sharing a few interesting new resources.

28/07/20
Author: 
Dan Healing
An oil sands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on June 1, 2014. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

July 28th 2020

Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank is joining a lengthening list of European lenders and insurance companies that say they won't back new oilsands projects.

The German bank said Monday its new fossil fuels policy will also prohibit investing in projects that use hydraulic fracturing or fracking in countries with scarce water supplies, and all new oil and gas projects in the Arctic region.

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