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This International Women’s Day, check out this exclusive, new video from Vital Voices with Amanda Gorman’s powerful words from her poem Vital Voices and a chorus of voices from women and girls across our global...

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network sent this along ~Fighting for Environmental and Climate Justice in NJ -- Decisions Imminent7 p.m.Wednesday, March 10thZOOM MeetingREGISTER HEREPlease join EmpowerNJ and the Ironbound...

Manifestos are back in style (if this one, this one, and this one are any indication). Here’s my latest crack at a fairly simple statement of principle. The lesson of the field of environmental studies, to which...

Equality concerns have loomed large in American thought for at least the past decade, exemplified by demonstrations against “the one percent” and the Black Lives Matter movement.  These concerns have also moved...

Last summer, Delaware, Connecticut, and other states joined cities like Hoboken, New Jersey, and Charleston, South Carolina, in suing fossil fuel corporations including Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell for misleading...

The TAZO Tree Corps will launch Spring 2021 and work to help combat climate change in the most impacted communities across the country TAZO brand has announced its commitment to fight for climate justice, in partnership...

Growing up in Toronto and coming from a family that grew up on very small islands where you’re connected to the natural world, caring about the environment was something that was just a part of my life. But it was a...

In one year’s time, countries, companies and communities will try to launch the sustainable revolution, to put the market into service of humanity and once again have society’s values drive value. Over my lifetime,...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister announced during the virtual Climate Ambition Summit last weekend that the country won’t approve any new coal plants and by 2030, 60% of the energy produced in Pakistan will be generated...

This year, California’s record-breaking fires caused untold suffering and destruction, and future wildfire seasons are expected to be even worse. New findings show that poorer communities of colour aren’t receiving...

A new United Nations report — yeah, another one — warns that the world is on track to exceed the level of global warming laid out in the Paris Agreement. But a green recovery plan to handle the fallout of the...

The world’s leading climate scientists have made it abundantly clear that the only way to avert catastrophic climate breakdown is to quickly decarbonize the entire global economy. But so far, world leaders aren’t...

Just 1% of the global population was responsible for half of the world’s commercial flight emissions in 2018, a new study found. Those elite “frequent fliers” travelled about 56,000 kilometres that year. That...

I was too tired for dinner when I got home after building a TekPak solar-powered generator for a community whose power was out by Super Typhoon Goni to show solidarity during the Finance In Common (FIC) Summit. But,...

Today, public development banks will be meeting for the first-ever Finance in Common Summit. These institutions control trillions of dollars in public money, yet they continue pouring our money into dirty fossil fuel...

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Transitioning to cleaner cars — including policies to ramp up electrification — will be key to addressing climate change. But a new United Nations report sheds light on the need for more regulation on the cars we...

On September 18th, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was on his way to a state event in the state of Mato Grosso when the plane he was on was forced to abort a first attempt at landing. The reason was the smoke caused...

by Alex Lenferna, South Africa Climate Justice Campaigner Français Did colonialism ever really end? To some extent yes, but to a large extent, not really. In many ways it simply morphed into different forms, which...