Pocket Archive: Climate Policy, Politics & Activism

Shell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1 million in damages after the environmental group's activists boarded the company's oil production vessel in transit at sea this year, according to Greenpeace and a document seen by Reuters.

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The Arctic is warming at a rate of two to three times the rest of the world, and while the signs of it may seem invisible to an outsider, they are disturbingly clear if you call Old Crow, Yukon, home.

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When over 40 Cambridge students and academics occupied the elite U.K. university’s BP Institute earlier this year, they were escalating one of the newest,

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing  Unceded

After record breaking days on Monday and Tuesday, unofficial analysis shows the world may have seen its hottest seven days in a row

A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon.

Jonathan Franzen writes about the tendency of media and politicians to describe the climate crisis with an excess of hope, and about the different decisions that become available after realizing that the climate catastrophe is unavoidable.

Head of World Meteorological Organization also warns ‘climate action is not a luxury but a must’ as temperatures soar

Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions

The window to achieve that goal is vanishingly small, but it is there. Now we must seize this one last chance

The IPCC is unequivocal: we must take urgent action to curb global heating and prevent catastrophe. Will our policymakers and the Cop26 conference be up to the task?

Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.

After the panicky IPCC report on climate change, it’s easy for pessimism to set in – but that would be conceding defeat

Costa Rican lawmakers this week will discuss a bill to permanently ban fossil fuel exploration and extraction, a move that would prevent future governments from pivoting on the issue as the popular eco-tourism destination country aims to decarbonize by 2050.

So far, I’ve participated in 11 virtual events to discuss my new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, with a few more to come. At each one, I’ve talked about how the world needs to transform its entire physical economy so we can stop emitting greenhouse gases by 2050, and at nearly every event, I’

The fossil-fuel industry has funded climate propaganda for decades. Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay tells Josh Marcus about his plan to counter it

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec says it will divest all of its oil investments by next year as part of the pension plan's plan to help combat climate change by cutting its carbon footprint in half by 2030.

Jennifer Morgan of Greenpeace International says net-zero pledges that rely on offsets cannot replace needed carbon reductions and fossil fuel phase-outs.

Climate change policy is accelerating, prompting a rise in what experts identify as organised resistance by deniers.