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Instead of Funding Fossil Fuels Overseas, UK Gov. Urged to Declare “Climate Emergency”

Tomorrow Greg Muttitt, the Research Director at Oil Change International will give evidence to the UK’s parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, which is investigating the scale and impact of UK Export Finance’s financing of fossil fuels in developing countries.

Greta or Happer: Who would you pick as Trump’s security advisor on climate?

I would say we should make Greta Thunberg the national security advisor on climate and send Donald Trump and William Happer back to school to learn some basic science.

RIP Wally Broecker, the “grandfather of climate science”

“The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks,” so wrote Wallace “Wally” Broecker, a leading climate scientist, who is widely credited with coining the phrase “global warming”, and who died this week.

Ten Days Left For Kids to #JoinJuliana in #YouthvGov Lawsuit

Zero Hour, a youth-led climate justice organization, has launched a nationwide drive to get thousands of young people to add their names to the Juliana Plaintiffs.

“Seas are rising: So are we”: Thousands of Kids Protest in UK Over Climate

Thousands of schoolchildren and young adults across the UK took part in a #YouthStrike4Climate today in at least 60 towns and cities from the far south west in Cornwall, to the far north in Scotland and over in Northern Ireland, too.

Shell faces landmark legal action over human rights & climate: “It’s time to bring an end to decades of impunity”

Some twenty four years after Saro-Wiwa’s death, along with eight of his colleagues, who were illegally murdered by the Nigerian Government for their campaign against Shell, a Dutch court today heard from the widows of those hung.