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COP22: Russian Government Event Marred by Nuclear Controversy
Daniel V | November 18th, 2016
Activists critical of government’s nuclear policy and intimidation of environmental groups denounce being silenced at panel on low-carbon business activists confront Rosatom executive over nuclear industry’s impacts.
Germany Leads with Release of Long-Term Climate Strategy
Laima Politajs | November 17th, 2016
Highlights and deficits to Germany’s 2050 strategy and how we feel about this first step forward.
COP22: Raining Fossils
Forrest Watkins | November 15th, 2016
When it rains, it pours – even in arid Marrakech. After a week marked with only two Fossil of the Day awards, on the eighth day of UN climate change
Germany breaks free from fossil fuels
Laima Politajs | May 16th, 2016
Starting on May 14 the coal diggers stood still for 48 hours as a mass of activists in white overalls stepped into the bizarre lunar landscape of the lignite mine
COP21: We Have a Deal
admin | December 12th, 2015
The world has a climate agreement – a legally binding, somewhat ambitious, global pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global temperature rises to “well below 2°C.” United Nations
The New Boundaries of Warming
David Gawith | December 12th, 2015
The gavel has dropped on the most significant climate agreement of recent times. The final version of the Paris Agreement has the stated objective of holding the increase in global temperatures
State of Play: Out From The Shadows
Hamish M | December 11th, 2015
Six years, almost to the day, since the failure of the Copenhagen talks, agreement is beginning to emerge in Paris with a deal set to be sealed within hours. Two
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists: Peddling Fantasies in Paris
Holly Dove | December 11th, 2015
While negotiators work hard to deliver a binding climate agreement in Paris this week, there is another group of actors working just as hard to make sure fossil fuels stay
“Dangerous and Deadly” – Scientists Slam Paris Text
Hamish M | December 10th, 2015
As the Paris climate talks surge towards a final agreement, a group of the world’s top climate scientists have gathered to slam the latest draft text. Negotiations for a new
