Leases for more oil drilling are flying to anyone who can write the U.S. government a big enough check.
Climate Crisis
Enbridge is eyeing ways to streamline and expand the delivery of Canadian tar sands to the Gulf Coast for export.
COP26 ended with an agreement too weak to meaningfully reduce emissions and limit global heating, critics say.
Activists staged a walkout in response to late decisions made by negotiators to severely weaken commitments.
The scientists point to a “rapidly shrinking” carbon budget to limit warming over the century to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“Equity has to be a key part of our responses” to the climate crisis, says climate scientist Kevin Anderson.
The legal petition comes amid growing anger over insufficient pledges emerging from the COP26 summit.
There’s no force behind even the meager steps proposed at COP26, says Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey.
The U.K.’s so-called “non-paper” is silent on one of the central issues on the road to climate stabilization.