Can the Swaraj Path be India’s Answer to Climate Change?
As climate change intensifies and the inadequacy of the west-driven climate response becomes clearer by the day, it is helpful for the entire effort if countries of the global south…
Climate Change
Learning from the Los Angeles fires for future safety
The biggest immediate need is for rescue and rehabilitation, but at the same time the right lessons should be learnt from the Los Angeles (LA) fires. This in turn must…
National Guard deployed to Los Angeles fire zones as anger builds over government failure to prevent disaster
The six fires raging across Los Angeles have now claimed more than 12,000 homes and other structures, and at least 11 lives. An estimated 180,000 people remain under evacuation orders…
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality?
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality may be the most significant issue of the 21st century. Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG), such as…
Over 9,000 structures, mostly homes, damaged or destroyed as Los Angeles fires continue to burn
Fires continue to rage through communities in and around Los Angeles imperiling entire neighborhoods and choking millions of people with toxic smoke. At least six people have been confirmed dead…
The Big Bang, Horrifying LA Fires, and Our Self-Destructive Species
What’s happening right now in Los Angeles is almost too painful to write about. I’ve spent much of the day writing and calling back and forth with friends and colleagues.…
The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism
California is facing what could be its most devastating wildfire in history, with fires burning uncontrolled throughout Los Angeles County. Images shared widely on social media show whole neighborhoods and…
What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean
by Thiago Barral and Woochong Um RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK – November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, dubbed the “Finance COP,” left many deeply disappointed – for…
Arresting and Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and…
Breaking the continuous cycles of crisis with commoning care-A Feminist reflection on climate action
It is 2025 and while I share the joy of many who celebrate the newness and the hope of things to be different and better that comes with every new…
Amazon’s Global Warming Counterweight Threatened
Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ecosystems…
Climate Consensus: Legislators
Climate mitigation is stalling out; governments, businesses and publics are ignoring climate, putting seemingly more important issues first - the economy especially. And, in effect, they’re giving up: after decades…
Ban Solar Geoengineering
by Mohammed Usrof, Disha Ravi, Heleen Bruggink, and Erica Njuguna WASHINGTON, DC – We have grown up in a world where climate change is apparent everywhere. We see it in…
Climate Consensus: The cost of climate change
Over the past year climate change has been put on the back burner by governments and business preoccupied with more pressing, largely economic issues. Mitigation measures especially have been throttled…
The Leading Edge of Global Heat – Arabian Peninsula
Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering temperature rise over coming decades. This disturbing news comes via a major…
Fossil fuels
Christmas is for kids and having a couple of my grandkids here for Christmas is motivating me to try and get you to wake up. Look at your kids and/or…
After COP29, the World Is Losing Faith in the UN Climate Process
Developed countries intentionally or unintentionally let dejection work its way through the conference for several reasons, the most obvious being that their home constituencies are turning against climate and environmental…
Dismantling the ‘Climate Alarm Industry’ per Project 2025
The definition of alarm: “A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024, 25 of 35 vital signs are at record extremes. By all accounts,…
The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions
NEW YORK – Following the recent 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, we are confronted with one pressing question: What’s next? With countries set to submit early…
Thousands feared dead as Indian Ocean cyclone Chido devastates Mayotte
by V. Gnana and Alex Lantier Thousands are feared dead after Cyclone Chido on Saturday struck Mayotte, a part of the Comoro island chain located between Madagascar and Mozambique but ruled…
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, dying in Mayotte Cyclone, indicate years of neglect in this French territory
While several reports on the Mayotte cyclone have spoken of hundreds of people dying in the cyclone, other reports, which have also quoted local officials, have expressed the apprehension that…
Women, Girls, and Pollution: An Unequal Struggle
A recent women-centric report by the United Nations highlights that by 2050, over 158 million women and girls could fall into poverty due to climate change. Simultaneously, more than 236…
Rising Desertification Shows We Can’t Keep Farming With Fossil Fuels
Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of greenhouse gas emissions over the last…
Murdering Eagles to Save the Climate? The Downside of Wyoming’s Wind Energy Boom
Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I’d…
Climate Change Trial at The Hague
The stakes are extremely high as the impact of fossil fuels on climate change goes to The Hague for hearings December 2-13, 2024 to determine whether nations are obligated to…
Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south
by Laurie Menviel and Gabriel Pontes A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down. That’s a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the…
Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates
The stench of failure emanating from the recently completed COP29 international climate negotiations in gas-rich Azerbaijan is deepening the gloom already enveloping the western world’s managerial class since the (re-)election…
Mysterious Global Hotspots
A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models…
COP29 at Baku, Azerbaijan—We must be hopeful in the midst of ominous signs of global catastrophe
Scientific evidence, long-term economic projections, and moral imperatives, for example, all provide compelling reasons for urgent effort toward climate mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage. Scores of international agreements, the Paris…
Is Carbon Capture Also a Hoax?
Climate change has become a dollars and cents issue, especially for U.S. homeowners. It’s no longer easily ignored or brushed away as a ‘hoax.” Only a fool would suggest that…
Niger Resists in the Crosshairs of Sanctions and Climate Catastrophe
Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that have devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions. In the…
Reflections on the just transition discourse in India from a feminist and decolonial perspective
Last week, I spent some time in dialogue with some brilliant minds on the potential framework and pathways for a gender just energy transition in India. But before I share…
Stranded by the Floods in South Sudan
The northern parts of South Sudan, particularly Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, has been hit hard by relentless flooding, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The…
Climate Crisis and Children’s Future: A Grave Challenge
Our irresponsible behavior towards the Earth raises a critical question: What kind of world are we leaving for the next generation? Issues like air pollution, severe water crises, depleting natural…
Emergency Summit re Antarctic Meltdown
“Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetimes.” (Source: Our Science, Your Future: Next Generation of Antarctic Scientists Call for Collaborative Action, Australian…
The Crisis of Global Warming: The Need for Shared Responsibility and Collective Efforts
The crisis of global warming is knocking on the doors of nations across the world. In this context, it is unfortunate that the COP-29 summit held in Baku failed to…
Protect This Place: Ladakh, the Planet’s ‘Third Pole’
The Place: Ladakh, India’s cold desert, is located to the east of Jammu and Kashmir at altitudes between 8,800 and 18,000 feet. This mountain enclave is geographically distinct, with unique…
COP29 ends with empty deal, as 2024 set to be warmest year on human record
The final deal coming out of the latest international climate change conference, COP29, which ended Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan, is another empty agreement. It exposes the inability of the world’s…
What’s On Deck for Climate Change?
Dr. Peter Carter, an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has new information about the status of climate change that meets the IPCC 6th Assessment worst-case…
Climate Crisis Activists Trying to Head Off Trump Destruction
This month’s regular FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) meeting was anything but calm after four climate crisis activists were removed for disrupting the proceedings. That event, along with the regular…
Carbon Farming Won’t Save the Planet
BERLIN – Healthy soil is indispensable to life on Earth, sustaining nearly 60% of all living species. As the second-largest carbon reservoir after oceans, soil is also among our planet’s…
Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?
WASHINGTON, DC – So far this year, floods, heat waves, droughts, storms, and wildfires have led to thousands of deaths, threatened the health and livelihoods of millions of people, and…
Climate Inaction Farce: COPs Hosted By Major Greenhouse Gas Polluters & True Carbon Price Ignored
The big issues at COP29 are policies to limit global warming and climate financing from the major polluters of the Global North to enable climate change-impacted countries of the Global…
Thank You for Emitting: The Hypocrisies of COP29
COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. …
Azerbaijan Greenwashes Authoritarianism at COP29
ISTANBUL – On November 11, thousands of world leaders, international stakeholders, and civil-society advocates kicked off the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku. With greenhouse-gas emissions rising even…
The Hidden Crisis: Climate Change and Mental Health in India
by Dr Saru Gupta and Dr Miyola Fernandes In contemporary times, climate change affecting the ecosystem and the economy, has secondarily arisen as a key concern for mental health. Rising…
The Planet Under Threat of Breakdown
There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, over the past year or so, spells “thumbs…
Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future
In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying to…
Inclusive Finance Is the Key to Climate Action
WASHINGTON, DC – At the top of the list of measures to be agreed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, is the New Collective Quantified…
Countries spend huge sums on fossil fuel subsidies – why they’re so hard to eliminate
Fossil fuels are the leading driver of climate change, yet they are still heavily subsidized by governments around the world. Although many countries have explicitly promised to reduce fossil fuel…
2084-The World as It Might Be (Or Do I Mean Might Have Been?)
Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history? And yes, in case you…
The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fueling Climate Catastrophe — Let’s Demand Accountability at COP
by Aaron Kirshenbaum and Melissa Garriga As we write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the…
There Is No Alternative to Multilateral Climate Action
BAKU – Our world is at a critical juncture. The devastating effects of global warming are increasingly evident, and the crisis is deepening. To mitigate it, we must urgently reduce…
From Emissions to Solutions: India’s Approach to Methane at COP29
India's stance on methane at COP29 could present a roadmap for how developing nations can contribute to global climate goals while advancing their own national development priorities The 2024 UN…
Billionaires Own US Climate Policy
Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything,…
The Case for Solidarity Levies
by Emmanuel Macron, Mia Amor Mottley and William Ruto BAKU – From Bridgetown to Nairobi to Paris, no country is immune to the worsening effects of the climate crisis. With…
Climate Change and Human Security: Exploring the Links and Challenges
by Bushra Afreen & Md Tabrez Alam Abstract Climate change significantly impacts essential resources like water, food, and arable land, reducing accessibility and quality. This decline heightens human insecurity, economic…
The Future Is Named Helene
The messages of Hurricane Helene lie inscribed in the muddy debris of Asheville, North Carolina, and other wrecked towns of Appalachia. Helene, powered by warming waters in the Gulf of…
Doubling Down on ‘Too Much Heat’
A recent Arctic News headline d/d October 4, 2024 refers to one of the most significant climate-related studies this year. It describes in detail the worldwide all-encompassing danger of loss…
‘Words Fail’: WMO Report Finds CO2 Accumulating at Record Levels
Climate-heating carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere more rapidly than at any time since humans evolved. That's just one of the alarming findings from the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Greenhouse…
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