2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both the Arctic and also Antarctic.
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As Amazon fire season begins, Brazil promises to act — but promises are not enough.
While COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, our climate emergency continues to worsen. Breaking news this week from climate scientists is that we have just completed the hottest 12-month period in recorded history.
As the Arctic burns, Trump bailouts fossil fuel industry with billions
The burning, melting, warming Arctic is clearly a sign that something is wrong and we need to stop investing in fossil fuels now.
Arctic Heatwave: Region Hits Sweltering Record 100 Degrees Plus Fahrenheit
The Arctic is boiling and the whole Arctic food chain is at risk. It is a stark warning and one that demands an immediate response by politicians and policy makers.
“Historic moment” as BP writes-off billions of reserves as stranded assets
This is a big moment for Big Oil. Climate reality has finally caught up with BP’s corporate dreamland that it could carry on drilling forever.
COVID-19 Just Recovery: Instead of breaking the “climate-finance doom loop,” governments pour billions into fossil fuels
We have leading experts warning that trillions could be at stake as the fossil fuel industry suffers a terminal and structural decline, but all governments do is pour billions more away on fossil fuels in COVID-19 recovery plans. It is nonsensical. There should be no Big Oil & Gas bailout.
More and more businesses call for a post-COVID-19 just recovery plan
More and more companies do not want to go back. They want a just transition moving forward. We have to make sure now that politicians meet rising corporate and political pressure. There can be no Big polluter bailout. Any post-COVID-19 economic recovery plan has to make central a managed transition away from fossil fuels to a cleaner, more sustainable, more just, future.
Despite Emergency, Belligerent Exxon Refuses to Act on Climate at AGM
Exxon, which has been bruised, battered and bloodied by a catastrophic collapse in the oil price, and is haemorrhaging money, wants us all to drive over a climate cliff too. It is reckless corporate behaviour, which the executives must know will cost lives.
Cyclone Amphan hits India & Bangladesh, already struggling with COVID-19
As I write, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal has just made landfall in India and Bangladesh.
Despite COVID-19, activists will still pressure Shell over climate failure at AGM tomorrow
Despite COVID-19, activists plan to protest about Shell’s climate failure at its Annual General Meeting tomorrow.