So the Trumpapocalypse has happened. He has finally withdrawn the US from the Paris climate agreement. Understandably there is righteous anger around the Globe over such a reckless act of climate vandalism, which imperils the natural world and the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. But here's the good news, it may prove to be just the kick up the jacksie that we needed, writes JOE WARE
… Trump has given us an opportunity to save the … Joe Ware | 6th June 2017 News Paris Agreement Trump Renewables Climate Action trump .jpg So the Trumpapocalypse has …
If tonight's first televised lives debate between the US presidential candidates is anything like previous UK TV hustings climate change won't get a look in - let alone a mention. US voter and blogger ETHAN MILLER takes a personal overview of what they likely won't be saying
… Action US Presidential Elections Donald Trump Hillary Clinton ocotillo, california.jpg … the outcome of this election? When Donald Trump tweeted "The concept of global warming … there were his supporters (let's call them Trumpets) who begged to differ. To me, that …
For social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the Paris Agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone, writes DOROTHY GRACE GUERRERO
… | 6th June 2017 Comment Paris Agreement Trump Climate Action Climate Justice … electoral campaign promises that Donald Trump made. By delivering on that promise, the … war and under US and European sanctions. Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris …
The G19 pro-climate coalition which agreed both an energy and climate action plan and important steps to help reorient private capital flows and business strategies towards a new sustainable direction has been deemed a success by many environmentalists, writes KATRIN RIEGGER (who was present at the conference for the Ecologist). But others say these agreements still do not go far enough and want to see global leaders adopting even more ambitious strategies to cut emissions and achieve the agreed goals of the Paris Agreement
… international climate action really is 'Trump- proof' Katrin Riegger | 12th July 2017 … Comment G20 Paris Agreement Climate Action Trump Cutting Global Emissions 1bdbo_2720.jpg … especially the June announcement of President Trump that he intends withdraw the US from the …
Australian Greens' Leader Richard Di Natale has called for the prospect of a Trump Presidency and a post-Brexit Britain to be the chance to break old alliances and forge new deals to save the planet. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
… | 30th November 2016 News Australia Donald Trump Brexit Climate Change Environment … Di Natale has called for the prospect of a Trump Presidency and a post-Brexit Britain to … recently of course, the election of Donald Trump as President of the US, which raises big …
As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, transport and other infrastructure projects on virtually every continent, it is having an unprecedented impact on the planet, writes William Laurance. It's not that China is any worse than historic colonial powers - the difference is in the sheer scale and pace of environmental destruction, and the total lack of oversight under which Chinese mega-corporations operate.
… onslaught will likely be made easier by the Trump administration's anti-environmental tack … to grow domestically and internationally, the Trump administration - with its … are leaping into the Pacific vacuum. The Trump Administration seems barely cognizant of …
What the Philippines’ biggest land investor doesn’t want you to know.
… Antonio Tolentino has been detained on trumped-up criminal and administrative charges … destruction, victimisation, illegal arrests, trumped-up charges, threats and intimidation, …
Government action isn't enough for climate change. Private actors - including corporations, civic and advocacy groups, private citizens, and even the Catholic Church - will be crucial to successfully cutting billions of tons of carbon and tackling climate change, write two academics, MICHAEL VANDENBERGH & JONATHAN M. GILLIGAN
… June 2017 News Paris Agreement Climate Action Trump Action climate change.jpg Government … & JONATHAN M. GILLIGAN With President Trump's announcement to pull the United States …
'Apollo-Earth' is a new mission to bring action against climate change to its Tipping Point. Here's what needs to happen and how you can get involved, write RUPERT READ and DEEPAK RUGHANI
… of recent political developments. Brexit and Trump, though likely to lead on balance to … that the epochally-inappropriate President Trump might replace funding to rein in … change with funding for a new Mars mission! Trump's Mars Mission 3) The Apollo missions …
The latest country to be hooked under 'free trade' agreements is Colombia, writes Pete Dolack, sued for tens of billions of dollars by US and Canadian gold mining companies for valuing its national parks and the high-altitude Andean wetlands that provide 70% of the nation's water above the profits of foreign corporations. Free trade or clean water? You can't have both.
… are insisting their right to pollute trumps human health and the environment. As is …
The government of president Evo Morales has approved a new mining law for Bolivia giving precedence to mining over other interests. It's proving highly divisive within the country - and indigenous communities are on the march to protect their rights to land, water and dignity.
… to the cooperative miners' federation. Mining trumps land rights, farming, irrigation …
Are we going to run out of minerals? That's the central question of a debate that has been raging for a couple of centuries, writes Ugo Bardi, when it first became clear that minerals are not life forms - and do not reproduce as we extract them from the Earth's crust.
… prices keep on falling But the Sirens had a trump card: They could show that most mineral …
A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry, writes Nick Meynen. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
… rising tension between China and the US. The Trump administration does not appear very … to accommodate China as a rising superpower. Trump's strategist and right-hand man Steve … a war would begin in the South China Sea. Trump's Foreign Minister Rex Tillerson, …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes have been evident in recent debates over uranium mines and nuclear waste, but Aboriginal peoples are fighting back!
… or mining interests. Nuclear interests trump aboriginal rights Thus the Olympic Dam …
Ecuador's 'socialist' President Correa has unleashed a wave of repression at Andean communities seeking to protect their lands, forests and nature from open pit mining, writes Carlos Zorrilla. With most of biodiversity-rich Intag region conceded to international mining companies, the mood is one of rising fear and desperation in the countdown to next month's election.
… mining company tried to have me arrested on trumped-up charges and very nearly succeeded. …
The fate of some of Ecuador's last remaining cloud forests and hundreds of livelihoods rests on the outcome of a trailblazing Rights of Nature case concerning two tiny amphibians.
… of wildlife and environments should always trump corporate interests. This …