Commitment to action on climate change was once a banner of modernism adopted by by both Tony Blair and David Cameron, writes Leo Barasi. But no longer. The Tories have abandoned it entirely, while the Labour mainstream, in thrall to the twin narratives of 'austerity' and 'aspiration', looks the other way. So how to put climate change back on the centre-left agenda?
… Aspiration versus climatechange: can we win back the centre left? Leo Barasi | 28th August 2015 News ClimateChange Politics Economics UK …
Google and Facebook have both recently quit ALEC, the corporate-funded climate change-denying US body that drafts right-wing laws for adoption by state legislatures. In a letter to Google, ALEC claims it does not deny climate change - an assertion strongly challenged by campaign group Forecast the Facts.
… Facebook, responsible corporates must ditch climate-change denying ALEC Forecast the Facts | 30th September 2014 News ClimateChange Corporations USA alec.png …
People forced by climate change to relocate are described by the media as victims or as security threats. There is little information about vulnerable communities’ fight to secure a viable future. We need to challenge these representations to provoke policies that protect the inherent rights of people affected by climate change, argues MARIA SAKELLARI
… Climatechange and migration: the need for a new media … | 29th August 2018 Comment Migration ClimateChange Media …
How do displacement and migration relate to natural disasters and climate change? Today, there is little clarity about their inter-relationship. ARTHUR WYNS debunks three common misconceptions and offers a fresh perspective to frame the subject of 'climate migration'
… Problem to opportunity: migration in times of climatechange Arthur Wyns | 30th May 2018 Comment ClimateChange Migration Displacement Climate …
The media has a responsibility to fairly represent displacement in the context of climate change.
… Climate justice and migration in the media … | 12th December 2018 Comment Editor’s Picks Climate Justice Immigration Migration ClimateChange Media Journalism …
The finance industry faces a 'wicked' problem, says Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. Climate change creates risks that threaten the financial system to its foundations - but on a timescale beyond the usual horizon for investment decisions. The only way to reduce those risks is to act with unusual foresight - and avoid abrupt and destabilising transitions.
… Financial instability and the tragedy of the climate horizon Mark Carney | 5th October 2015 Comment Finance ClimateChange tree-clouds-recut.jpg The finance …
Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all? Carol Linnitt met climate campaigner George Marshall, who thinks he is finally asking the right questions.
… Marshall: Why our brains are wired to ignore climatechange Carol Linnitt DeSmog.ca | 25th September 2014 Comment ClimateChange Books george-marshall-cut.jpg …
The latest report from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit shows how the understanding of the connections between climate change and extreme weather events is evolving rapidly. JACK ALEXANDER reports on how the links between weather and climate change and its impact on policy making is more important now than ever.
… Studies increasingly link extreme weather to climatechange Jack Alexander | 15th December 2017 News ClimateChange Severe Weather Events ECIU …
Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Tom Levitt reports
… Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time? Tom Levitt | 29th January 2010 News Aid Agencies ClimateChange Africa Adaptation mainpic.jpg Climate …
While scientists and the international community endlessly debate and argue, millions of Bangladeshi citizens have already been displaced by climate change - for them the worst-case 'nightmare' climate scenario is already real
… Bangladesh’s climate displacement nightmare Scott Leckie … Jordan Bakker | 18th April 2011 Comment ClimateChange Bangladesh Sundarbans Displacement …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed … May 2014 News Energy Fossil Fuels Fracking UK ClimateChange Science fracking-bakken-ndakota-cut.jpg …
Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
… Clive Hamilton: 'solving climatechange is out of the question' Tom Levitt | 26th May 2010 Comment ClimateChange Psychology Society Politics And …
Climatekeys launches in London tomorrow and promises to be music to the ears of activists keen to learn and teach about climate change while also aware of the need to remain positive. JULIA MARQUES shares her inside view.
… A gala concert of piano music to sound the climatechange alarm Julia Marques | 24th October 2017 News Climate Music Piano 405596.jpg Climatekeys …
Sea–level rises, changes to the severity of monsoon seasons and rainfall, flooding, droughts and heatwaves are all having an increasing impact on human health, writes Geordon Shannon.
… Climatechange is making the world sick Geordan Shannon | 11th February 2014 News ClimateChange Health can-we-talk-climate-change.png …
Rosemary Randall of the Climate Psychology Alliance talks to NICK BREEZE about coping with the stress and the sustainability of activism.
… How climate activists avoid burn out Nick Breeze | 11th January 2019 Activism Climate Psychology Alliance Psychology Psychology Of ClimateChangeClimateChange Ro Randall Climate …
Twice as many people in India and Japan rank climate change as one of the most important environmental issues, highlighting the challenge facing UK policymakers and climatologists
… a quarter of UK population concerned about climatechange William McLennan | 18th April 2011 News ClimateChange Energy Renewables …
New analysis of the vast body of research shows 97% of climate scientists agree that human activities are fuelling climate change, writes Tim Radford. But thanks to aggressive attempts to convince us otherwise, only 12% of people in the US are aware of this high level of agreement.
… Almost all climate scientists agree: climatechange is real! Tim Radford | 19th …
Reforms should be made to the Bank of England’s mandate to make climate stability a core purpose, according to a new report. CATHERINE EARLY reports
… Time to bail out the climate, say campaigners Catherine Early | 16th May 2018 News Banking Finance ClimateChange Risk Recession bank_of_england.jpg …
Women and Feminists for Climate Justice are taking on the Racial Capitalist Climate Patriarchy.
… The racial capitalist climate patriarchy Julie Gorecki | 10th … 2021 | Comment Women And Feminists For Climate Justice Ecofeminism Activism Activism … activists are pushing for a “feminist system change not climatechange,” as one of the …