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Climate news/2023
This page brings together global news 2023, on Climate action, highlighting innovative strategies and community efforts that recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.
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Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023) - ‘I thought we had more time’: how motherhood spurred a New Yorker’s fight against fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- Climate migration may become "abandonment" as people flee flooding, axios.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Massachusetts Just Took a Big Step Away from Natural Gas. Which States Might Follow?, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 07, 2023)
- How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees, BBC Future (Dec 07, 2023)
- ‘Betrayed’: NT communities angered after learning only industry was consulted on scrapped net zero policy, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2023)
- Belgian court orders 55% emissions cut from 1990 levels, theguardian.com (Dec 01, 2023)
- Climate change: Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas, BBC News (Dec 01, 2023)
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- Paris puts people and bicycles at the heart of ambitious new climate plan, momentummag.com (Nov 29, 2023)
- How a small Caribbean island is trying to become hurricane-proof, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2023)
- Boy tells TDs and senators: 'We need more trains now', rte.ie (Nov 21, 2023)
- Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- Kenya declares surprise public holiday to plant trees, independent.co.uk (Nov 07, 2023)
- It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘carbon passports’ may be the answer, theconversation.com (Nov 03, 2023)
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- Land use plan needed to combat climate change on ‘different scale’ - Taoiseach, irishtimes.com (Oct 25, 2023)
- SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- Opinion: Climate change isn’t just about emissions. We’re ignoring a huge part of the fight, latimes.com (Oct 15, 2023)
- Concern over 3 continents format for 2030 world cup., globalvoices.org (Oct 12, 2023) — "FIFA's announcement is totally detached from reality … Not only does it contradict their own pledge to cut emissions, but it sends the wrong message to football fans around the world that such a tournament is compatible with a sustainable future and a healthy environment. FIFA is saying one thing and doing another." Freddie Daley, Cool Down Network
- Climate: California governor signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions, lemonde.fr/en (Oct 08, 2023)
- Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 05, 2023)
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- Australian households on track to add near-record rooftop solar capacity to electricity grid, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2023)
- ‘Climate change killed my family’: Unusual monsoon hammers India’s Himachal, aljazeera.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2023)
- The media need to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- California sues oil companies claiming they downplayed the risk of fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2023)
- US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 14, 2023)
- Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2023)
- Our environmental laws are failing us in the face of the climate crisis, Tim Flannery, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2023)
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- Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future, nexusmedianews.com (Aug 24, 2023)
- The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in S Africa, africanarguments.org (Aug 22, 2023) — With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future.
- Slow train coming: only a genuine shift to rail will put NZ on track to reduce emissions, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2023)
- 40 percent of US climate emissions attributed to richest households: study, thehill.com (Aug 17, 2023)
- Youth wins climate case against U.S. state of Montana in first-of-its-kind legal ruling, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough
- It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess, Andy Beckett, theguardian.com (Aug 11, 2023)
- Surveying the Open Climate Data Landscape, creativecommons.org (Aug 08, 2023)
- New grant program asks residents to ‘throw shade,’ foster climate resiliency in Flint, flintbeat.com (Aug 02, 2023)
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- The farm that grows vegetables in the middle of the desert, positive.news (Jul 19, 2023)
- With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2023)
- Climate change: China's green power surge offers hope on warming, BBC News (Jun 29, 2023)
- Court decision in youth climate lawsuit against Ontario government ignites hope, The Conversation (Jun 20, 2023)
- Fighting climate change by reconnecting to ecosystems in our own backyards, nationalobserver.com (Jun 20, 2023)
- Australia needs to reduce emissions to net zero by 2038 to do ‘fair share’ to contain global heating, analysis shows, The Guardian (Jun 18, 2023)
- ‘My life and my home’: young people start to testify at historic US climate trial, The Guardian (Jun 13, 2023) — The plaintiffs note that Montana’s constitution pledges a healthy environment ‘for present and future generations’
- ‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 07, 2023)
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- Jordan’s Bedouins take on the struggles of climate change, aljazeera.com (May 26, 2023)
- Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study, The Conversation (May 25, 2023)
- Vietnam records highest ever temperature of 44.1C, The Guardian (May 07, 2023)
- The short films of Drawdown’s Neighbourhoods see carbon being reduced project by project, locality by locality, Daily Alternative (Apr 25, 2023)
- We can halve emissions by 2030, ipcc.ch (Apr 04, 2023) — We have options in all sectors to at least halve emissions by 2030
- IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change, The Conversation (Mar 24, 2023)
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- Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet outweighs that of most countries, The Guardian (Feb 28, 2023)
- The people bringing future generations into the climate fight, bbc.com (Feb 16, 2023)
- Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns, The Guardian (Feb 14, 2023)
- Emissions divide now greater within countries than between them – study, The Guardian (Jan 31, 2023)
- Agents of change, cbc.ca (Jan 16, 2023) — A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country?
- Net zero possible in 2040s, says outgoing UK climate business expert, The Guardian (Jan 09, 2023)
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