A massive document leak exposed how some of the world’s largest fossil fuel and animal feed-producing nations are lobbying to strip key findings from the latest IPCC climate assessment. The attack on climate facts comes just a couple weeks before the pivotal COP26, raising questions about the summit’s potential outcome during a critical juncture in international climate negotiations.
The corporate-led neoliberal North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its successor, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), amount to a dangerous attack on human health, welfare, and the environment. What can be done to reverse the damage already done and prevent further harm in the face of climate change?
A recent groundbreaking report exposes the pivotal and dangerous role of social media in the spread of climate change disinformation and the fight against real and solutions-oriented information, specifically in the case of the February 2021 Texas blackouts.
A discussion on the role that corporate financial influence and fossil-fuel-funded organizations play in undermining the democratic system.
On October 1, Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 began to pump nearly one million barrels of oil per day, putting pristine waterways at risk and breaking federal land treaties with the Anishinaabe people of present day Minnesota. First proposed in 2014, Indigenous Peoples and climate justice activists have stalled its completion for seven years. Their fight continues against the destructive pipeline that has violated Indigenous rights, land, and waters.
The construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline is an example of the fossil fuel industry’s ongoing attack on Tribal rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and all of our climate futures. Indigenous people are leading the fight for our future, and it is long past time to fall in line to follow them.
International institutions are not structured to account for the environmental catastrophe of neoliberal globalization. The International Criminal Court can alleviate this by making Ecocide a crime under their jurisdiction.
Recently, we spoke to Ben Levy on his recent efforts concerning the struggle over a proposed liquified natural gas refinery in Tacoma, Washington. Through his involvement in the resistance against this facility, he has witnessed firsthand how imperative it is to keep fossil fuels like natural gas in the ground. Ben sat down with us to explain how this struggle and its geographic location are critical to the climate justice movement.
On September 24, hundreds of thousands of the world’s youth took to the streets across 1,500 cities and towns to voice their frustrations around the lack of urgency around climate change. After a year and a half of grappling with COVID-19, this year’s strike tested whether the CJ movement could maintain its momentum.
Voting is one of our most sacred and fundamental rights as citizens. However, this right is under assault — corporate polluters have launched a major attack on American democracy, suppressing the voting rights of targeted populations to hinder the passage of environmental legislation.
Extreme weather events across the globe are becoming both more frequent and more severe. Along with these disasters comes heightened uncertainty, anxiety, and trauma for people living in high-risk regions, and coastline communities are no exception to this rule. The chief culprit? Tropical cyclones.
Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University, and her research focuses on urban climate action and strategies for linking it to equity, economic development, and innovation.
Two and a half years ago, the Federal Green New Deal (GND) resolution ignited interest both nationally and internationally in a bold vision for actually achieving climate and equity.
Dr. Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University, discusses her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on integrating social justice, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives into climate and energy justice.
What exactly is intersectionality? A term coined in 1989, intersectionality has been used in the climate justice movement to describe the relationships between individuals’ unique identities and experiences, especially those of historically oppressed groups, and how they can influence real and positive systemic change.
A recent case brought before Brazil’s Supreme Court aims to systematically strip ancestral land rights and accelerate agribusiness, mining, and logging activities in Brazil. Ahead of the ruling, the country’s Indigenous tribes came together to coordinate a protest of over 6,000 native representatives against the impending decision—the largest demonstration of Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s history.
Sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated thousands of families throughout the Gulf, we watch as yet another catastrophic hurricane fueled by climate change makes landfall in Louisiana.
For listeners looking to learn more about the many intersections of the climate crisis and the people involved in the climate justice movement, here are five informative and gripping podcasts to plug into. Press play and enjoy!
The US military has a long history of fighting wars for natural resources. But with the climate crisis looming, the interdependence between fossil fuel giants and the Pentagon needs to be exposed and broken.
With climate change and the heating planet, wildfire season has lengthed and worsened over the past few years, leading to a destructive yearly cycle that doesn't seem to have an end. Read more to learn about the latest wildfires, how climate change affects wildfire conditions, and the climate justice implications.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” That’s how the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) landmark climate report begins.
This powerful documentary presents an interconnected story of frontline Indigenous individuals in their journeys to achieve physical, spiritual, and cultural healing from generational-colonial trauma through the food sovereignty movement.
Many people look to the federal level for climate policy — but local efforts can be even more effective. A city-level GND provides an opportunity to experiment, implement, and achieve progressive policies at the scale closest to the people.
With the last seven years all ranking as the seven hottest years on record, communities around the globe are feeling the heat now more than ever…and it is becoming dramatically worse. By amplifying heat — the deadliest type of weather — to new extremes, climate change has catapulted the world into an era characterized by scorching temperatures of a dangerous degree. Read more to learn about the world’s latest extreme heat events, how climate change has been exacerbating them, and which populations are being disproportionately affected.
