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There’s no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving each other

Last summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of agricultural land were flooded and 90% of the crops in Sindh, a…

Why Optimism Can’t Fix Our Climate Politics – The New Republic

The release of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week has provoked a new round of discussion about how best to talk about the dire crisis it describes. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says it’s important…

Fossil fuel firms should be charged with homicide for climate change deaths, legal experts argue – Euronews

Should fossil fuel companies face homicide charges for their contributions to climate change? That’s the question explored in a paper set to be published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review next year. Oil and gas companies have faced a wave…

Voting teal is all very well but curbing our lifestyles to save the planet is crucial | Conal Hanna

Tony Abbott. Donald Trump. Adani. Scott Morrison. Jair Bolsonaro. Shell. George W Bush. George HW Bush. Saudi Aramco. These are just some of the names rightly called out by media in recent years for their contribution to, or stalling of…

Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme

The world’s leading carbon credit certifier – used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations for climate claims – has said it will phase out and replace its rainforest offsets programme by mid-2025 after a Guardian investigation found it…

Fossil fuels received £20bn more UK support than renewables since 2015

The UK government has given £20bn more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015, the Guardian can reveal. The research, commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, found that while renewable energy was given £60bn in support…

Carbon capture projects tackling climate change – Al Jazeera English

A groundbreaking offshore carbon capture and storage site will be launched in the Danish part of the North Sea on Wednesday. Carbon dioxide captured in Belgium and transported by ship is to be injected into a depleted oil field 200km…

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