A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck north Oklahoma City early on New Year’s Day, the latest in a series of temblors in the area in recent days that has prompted state regulators to call for more restrictions on oil and gas operators.
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It’s #TimeToChoose Climate-Friendly Food
Indeed, in the midst of a growing – and very encouraging – global conversation on how to address the common threat of climate change, far too little attention has been paid at the highest levels to the impact of our diets and farming practices on planet-warming emissions.
Victorians take to the streets to demand urgent action on climate change
Thousands of people were marching through Melbourne’s CBD on Friday evening in what is expected to the largest in a series of climate change protests being held throughout Australia over the weekend. They gathered in front of the state library and, as the lawns filled with protesters putting finishing touches on their placards, they took to the surrounding roads just in time for peak hour.
WWF statement on G20 Leaders Summit
“The G20 summit was a chance for the world’s leading greenhouse gas polluters to take immediate action to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and move the world to a 100 per cent renewable energy future. Wealthy G20 countries could also have made more commitments on climate finance and technology access, both of which are essential for developing countries to cut emissions at scale and adapt to impacts. Unfortunately, those opportunities were missed.
Gates Foundation would be $1.9bn better off if it had divested from fossil fuels
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would have had $1.9bn (£1.3bn) more to spend on its lifesaving health projects if it had divested from fossil fuels and instead invested in greener companies, according to a new analysis.
Thomas Piketty calls for investors to divest from fossil fuels ahead of climate talks
The French economist, along with ‘ecological economist’ Tim Jackson, authors of the respective bestselling books Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Prosperity Without Growth: economics for a finite planet, said that investors should divest from a sector with a business model “at odds with physical realities”.
Killing Keystone XL Won’t Stop Climate Change. Here’s What Could
IN A FEW weeks, nearly 200 countries will meet in Paris to try, once more, to figure out how to cut global greenhouse gas emissions and save human life on Earth. So in advance, every country is setting up its chess pieces. For the negotiations to work, the rest of the world has to believe that the US takes climate change seriously.
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