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G20 Leaders' Statement on Climate Change Highlights Rift with U.S.
World leaders have made clear the US’s isolated stance on climate change, with 19 of the G20 countries affirming their commitment to the “irreversible” Paris climate agreement.
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Meet the Activists With a Plan to Make Climate Change Matter in Elections
Calling themselves Sunrise Movement, the group — most are under the age of 30 — plan to recruit and train a nonviolent volunteer army to shake up the 2018 midterm elections and make 2020 the first presidential election about climate change.
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Hundreds of U.S. Mayors Endorse Switch to 100% Renewable Energy By 2035
Leaders from more than 250 cities unanimously backed a resolution to reach the clean energy goal at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami Beach on Monday.
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U.S. and Canada Promise to Lead World To Low-Carbon Economy
The shared vision unveiled by Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau on Thursday commits the two countries to promote North American carbon markets, widely cap oil and gas well emissions, and protect at-risk indigenous communities.
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Call To Arms: Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Unlike politics, when it comes to climate change it's people against physics, which means that compromise and trade-off don’t work – it’s not “we should do this” or “we’d be wise to do this,” instead it’s simpler: “We have to do this.”
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The Road From Paris: How to Finance a Trillion-Dollar Climate Change Transition
Changing the way the world is powered means big spending – and huge investment opportunities – with energy finance models suggesting clean power investments need to rise by an additional 75 percent, to $12.1 trillion, in the next 25 years.
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The Price of the Deal: How U.S. Ensured a Republican-Proof Paris Accord
Campaigners say the sheer fact of the deal – and its support by nearly 200 countries – will force Republicans to recalibrate their opposition to Obama’s climate policy.
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The Law Of Partial Pressures: Paris COP21 Is Filled with John Daltons and Few Republicans
The view of America from Paris, from Europe and most of the world reveals a once-great nation that has become a floundering token of retrograde thinking led by anti-futurism and anti-humanism.
