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At the start of December 2020, U.N. Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres spoke at Columbia University, appearing not before a packed auditorium as in years past, but before a โ€œvirtualโ€ audience, maki...
This year โ€” with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disastersย โ€” was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. All a...
Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climateย crisis....
During a virtual event on Wednesday, December 9 hosted by the Heritage Foundationย โ€” a conservative free market think tank backed by polluters like the petrochemical Koch empireย โ€” the outgoing head ...
Today, an unusually broad coalition of environmental groups, numbering more thanย 550, called on the incoming Biden-Harris administration toย address plastic pollution alongside fossil fuels, releasi...
Byย Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams.ย Originally published onย Common Dreamsย underย CCย BY-SAย 3.0ย US. Advocacy group 350.org released a new guide Thursday to assess how likely President-elect Joe Biden'...
An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
Environmentalists are calling on the government to reassess its support for a large expansion of waste incinerators in the coming decade and bring in a law that would require the waste sector to de...
Climate activists have plasteredย more than 250 billboards, bus stops and tubes with parody HSBC adverts to highlight the bankโ€™s โ€œclimateย colonialismโ€. The spoof adverts were created by 15 artists ...

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At the start of December 2020, U.N. Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres spoke at Columbia University, appearing not before a packed auditorium as in years past, but before a โ€œvirtualโ€ audience, maki...
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This year โ€” with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disastersย โ€” was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. All a...
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Three young British citizens and the climate litigation charity Plan B today announced they are taking legal action against the UK government for failing to sufficiently address the climateย crisis....
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During a virtual event on Wednesday, December 9 hosted by the Heritage Foundationย โ€” a conservative free market think tank backed by polluters like the petrochemical Koch empireย โ€” the outgoing head ...
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Today, an unusually broad coalition of environmental groups, numbering more thanย 550, called on the incoming Biden-Harris administration toย address plastic pollution alongside fossil fuels, releasi...
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Byย Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams.ย Originally published onย Common Dreamsย underย CCย BY-SAย 3.0ย US. Advocacy group 350.org released a new guide Thursday to assess how likely President-elect Joe Biden'...
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An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
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An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
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Environmentalists are calling on the government to reassess its support for a large expansion of waste incinerators in the coming decade and bring in a law that would require the waste sector to de...
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Climate activists have plasteredย more than 250 billboards, bus stops and tubes with parody HSBC adverts to highlight the bankโ€™s โ€œclimateย colonialismโ€. The spoof adverts were created by 15 artists ...