“In an effort to boost revenue and protect the environment, the Biden administration on Friday laid out plans to make fossil fuel companies pay more to drill on federal lands and waters,” the Washington Post reports.
Make Black Friday Green
Sara Goddard has an excellent eco-friendly gift giving guide.
5 Foods You Think Are Planet Friendly But Aren’t
Sara Goddard puts together a surprising list.
Just In Time for Thanksgiving
From Sara Goddard: How to Discuss Climate Change This Holiday Season Without Pissing Off Everyone.
The Best Gifts for the Environment
Sara Goddard compiles a list of the 21 best eco friendly gifts for the holiday season.
Also check out her very popular eco-friendly gift giving guide and her suggestions for “gifts for good” to help the environment.
Climate Deal Calls for Shift from Fossil Fuels
“Exhausted negotiators from nearly 200 nations struck a deal Saturday intended to propel the world toward more urgent climate action, but without offering the transformative breakthrough scientists say must happen if humanity is to avert disastrous planetary warming,” the Washington Post reports.
Axios: “However, the talks fell short of meeting developing countries’ demands for access to funding to compensate them for climate-related losses.”
Negotiators Release New Draft Climate Accord
“As international climate talks in Glasgow dragged into deep overtime, organizers released a new draft agreement on Saturday morning that they hope could be the basis for a new global deal to tackle climate change,” the New York Times reports.
“The latest draft, which is broadly similar to one released on Friday, calls on nations to return next year with stronger pledges to cut planet-warming emissions in this decade.”
Washington Post: Why has it been so hard to get fossil fuels mentioned in U.N. climate deals?
Climate Talks Go Into Overtime
“Negotiators at the COP26 conference in Glasgow have blown past their Friday evening deadline for reaching a decision about how the world should fight climate change,” the Washington Post reports.
Sara Goddard: “Even if you’re inclined to dismiss the optics, it’s hard to ignore the equivocating and shell game antics. There’s a greenwashed hue that permeates so much of this conference.”
Are World Leaders Copping Out at COP26?
Sara Goddard is not hopeful.
Countries’ Climate Pledges Built on Flawed Data
“Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations,” the Washington Post reports.
“An examination of 196 country reports reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere.”
“The plan to save the world from the worst of climate change is built on data. But the data the world is relying on is inaccurate.”
How to Engage Your Community on Climate Change
As world leaders “blah, blah, blah” — as Greta Thunberg puts it — at COP26, do you think you can’t do anything? Think again.
We’re Going to Need More Than Luck
World leaders each tossed a coin at the Trevi Fountain in Rome for good luck in fighting the climate crisis.
Sara Goddard: Where is the climate leadership in our government?
Most Americans Want More Done on Climate Change
A new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll finds 59% of Americans say the global community is doing too little to address climate change.
The Climate Wars Are Coming
Daily Beast: “Climate-related warfare is a near-term reality—not some far-off boogeyman—according to leading defense thinkers and military strategists. They are still talking about the importance of fighting climate change, but they’re also making plans to fight other human beings because of climate change.”
Biden Tries to Convince Skeptical World at Climate Talks
“President Biden will walk into a riverside event space on Monday to try to convince a gathering of world leaders that the United States, which has pumped more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than any other nation, is finally serious about addressing climate change and that others should follow its lead,” the New York Times reports.
“But Mr. Biden is coming with a weaker hand than he had hoped.”
“He has been forced to abandon the most powerful mechanism in his climate agenda: a program that would have quickly cleaned up the electricity sector by rewarding power companies that migrated away from fossil fuels and penalizing those that did not. His fallback strategy is a bill that would provide $555 billion in clean energy tax credits and incentives. It would be the largest amount ever spent by the United States to tackle global warming but would cut only about half as much pollution.”
Trash and Burn
“Consumer goods giants are funding projects to send plastic trash to cement plants, where it is burned as cheap energy. They’re touting it as a way to keep plastic out of dumps and use less fossil fuel. Critics say it undercuts recycling efforts and worsens air quality,” Reuters reports.
One said it was “like moving the landfill from the ground to the sky.”
Sara Goddard: In a world drowning in plastic pollution, a surge in plastic production looms.
Biden Plan Will Include $500 Billion for Climate
“The White House is privately telling lawmakers the climate portion of President Biden’s roughly $2 trillion social spending plan is ‘mostly settled’ and will likely cost more than $500 billion,” Axios reports.
“A price tag of $500-550 billion is a huge number and, if it holds, would likely be the single biggest component of the sweeping package. It also isn’t far off from the roughly $600 billion proposed when the bill was expected to cost $3.5 trillion.”
Lockdowns Did Nothing to Slow Down the Climate Crisis
“Greenhouse gas levels reached a record high in 2020 despite much of the world spending at least part of the year under lockdown or working from home, a United Nations agency announced Monday,” Rolling Stone reports.
“The last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere, humans did not exist.”
Sara Goddard: What is carbon footprint and why should you care?
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