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COP26 climate summit ends in failure

14/11/21
Author: 
Patrick Martin
Link: 
World Socialist Web Site
Climate activists march through the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 which is the host city of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Nov. 9, 2021

As the global climate summit COP26 drags out to its miserable end this week in Glasgow, Scotland, the major capitalist powers and the banks and corporations that call the shots in national and world politics have largely failed in their efforts to use the summit to provide a semblance of “progress” in resolving the global climate emergency.

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Climate Change
Coal
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
Social
USA
War/military
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The US needs to work on itself before it can claim a global leadership role on climate

14/11/21
Author: 
Stephen Semler
Link: 
stephensemler.substack.com

Nov. 12, 2021

Situation

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Climate Change
USA
War/military
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Electile Dysfunction: How to Fix US Government

12/11/21
Author: 
RepresentUs
Link: 
You Tube
And Canada?
 
Two minutes and four seconds:
 
 
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Canada
Social
USA
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Maine Voters Reject "Green" High-Voltage Transmission Line

11/11/21
Author: 
Robert Bryce
Link: 
Forbes
A homemade sign posted on a telephone pole in protest of Central Maine Power's controversial ... [+] ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nov 5, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Energy
Protest - Revolt
Social
USA
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Portland Tax Funds Clean Energy Projects for Marginalized Communities

04/11/21
Author: 
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
Link: 
The Oregonian/Oregon Live
Portland, Oregon - (Stephanie Yao Long/Staff)

Another reason why Canadian municipalities need to acquire the power to levy taxes beyond simple property taxes.

               -- Gene McGuckin

Mar. 26, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Social
Urban
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Agriculture Sector Methane Emissions Are A Big Problem—Factory Farm Biogas Is Not The Solution

03/11/21
Author: 
Food & Water Watch
Link: 
Common Dreams
Contact

Phoebe Galt, Food & Water Watch, pgalt@fwwatch.org

PRESS RELEASE

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Agriculture
Climate Change
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The Green New Deal From Below

02/11/21
Author: 
Jeremy Brecher
Link: 
Popular Resistance
 Make Detroit the Engine of the Green New Deal! Becker1999, Wikimedia commons

October 31, 2021

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Climate Change
Green New Deal/LEAP
Labour - Unions
Social
Urban
USA
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Supreme Court to Hear Case on E.P.A.’s Power to Limit Carbon Emissions

01/11/21
Author: 
Adam Liptak
Link: 
New York Times
smoke stacks - The court’s decision to take the case came after a federal appeals court struck down the Trump administration’s plan to relax restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Credit...Charlie Riedel/Associated Press

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Climate Change
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‘Unforgivable’: Developing nations will have to wait longer for promised climate fund

26/10/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
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.

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Canada
Climate Change
Global
Oil - Pipelines
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Landlords Mess With the Wrong Old Folks Community

26/10/21
Author: 
Hannah Krieg
Link: 
The Stranger
Patricia Bruce, a resident of a senior living community managed by COAST, has had enough. Her sign lists a number of her demands: "We need better security, a cleaner environment, rent equity, and a show of respect and dignity." HK

Returning to his apartment building with a grocery bag in hand, one resident of a South Seattle senior living community was greeted by a courtyard filled with picket signs.

“They didn’t lock you up? They didn’t send dogs on ya?” he asked his protesting neighbors. “This one has warrants out in ten states,” he joked with one of the protestors.

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Protest - Revolt
Social
USA
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