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China Backs Venezuela Anti-Poverty Program

01/10/23
Author: 
Andreína Chávez Alava, Venezuelanalysis
Link: 
Popular Resistance
photo: President Nicolás Maduro said the new program will be activated in the near future. AP.

Sept. 29, 2023

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EV Battery Minerals Under Huge Ontario Carbon Sink

01/10/23
Author: 
Vipal Monga
Link: 
The Wall Street Journal
Flying over the Hudson Bay Lowlands to the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario.

Sept. 28, 2023

$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks

A fight is brewing in Canada about how, or whether, to dig out materials essential for EV batteries that lie deep beneath vast peat bogs

The pace of the global transition to electric vehicles depends on the future of a remote region in Canada known as the Ring of Fire.

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Workers Around World Stand With Striking U.S. Autoworkers

01/10/23
Author: 
Jeff Schuhrke
Link: 
In These Times
The Metalworkers Union of Greater Curitiba (SMC) holds an assembly in Brazil to express support and solidarity with the strike of U.S. automaker workers. SINDICATO DOS METALÚRGICOS DA GRANDE CURITIBA / FACEBOOK

Sept. 26, 2023

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Easy to Raise Trillion$$$ for Climate Mitigation/Adaptation?

29/09/23
Author: 
Gordon Brown
Link: 
The Guardian
National Disaster Response Force personnel distribute relief material to people stuck in flooding near the river Yamuna, New Delhi, July 2023. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Sept, 25, 2023

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International Energy Agency (IEA) confirms: no new oil and gas

27/09/23
Author: 
Kelly Trout Research Co-Director Oil Change International
Global energy investment in clean energy and in fossil fuels, 2015-2023

Clean energy    Fossil fuels  Appears in World Energy Investment 2023 Notes - 2023 values are estimated.

Sept. 26, 2023

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2025: We are going to change the history of the climate and the planet!

27/09/23
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Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía
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Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía
Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

Sept. 2023

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The Fight to End LNG Expansion Could Be the Biggest Climate Battle of Our Lives

26/09/23
Author: 
Bill McKibben
Link: 
Common Dreams
Greenpeace activists protest in the LNG gas terminal of Fluxys in Zeebrugge, Belgium. (Photo: © Eric De Mildt / Greenpeace)

Sept. 25, 2023

It reminds me a lot of Keystone XL saga, but with perhaps even more at stake.

The great privilege of being a journalist is that you get to ask questions, and people generally answer them, so you find stuff out. And sometimes that stuff is shocking.

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Scientists call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate

25/09/23
Author: 
Fiona Harvey
Link: 
National Observer
Solar radiation management involves attempting to reduce the amount of sunlight striking the Earth’s surface. Photo by Alan Levine/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Sept. 25, 2023

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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Decolonising Development with Frantz Fanon

25/09/23
Author: 
 Benjamin Selwyn
Link: 
The Bullet
Frantz Fanon

Sept. 25, 2023 

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Why We Need a ‘Slow Water’ Movement

25/09/23
Author: 
Deborah Campbell
Link: 
The Tyee
Award-winning author Erica Gies: ‘So much of our development has been about subverting water’s natural pathways and habits.’ Photo via Erica Gies website.

Sept. 25, 2023

To withstand drought and deluge, an H2O how-to from Erica Gies, author of ‘Water Always Wins.’ She speaks at UVic on Oct. 3.

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