"It's staggering that a bank signed up to that target is doing everything it can to make sure that target can't be met."
Carbon pricing's actual impact has, in fact, been marginal—only reducing emissions by under 2% yearly.
"In any other workplace, a person would be fired immediately for sharing content threatening violence and murdering a coworker. There should be no difference in Congress."
"As the world confronts the climate crisis, mass biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and the pandemic, we need to move beyond business-as-usual approaches like hydropower to deliver real solutions."
"Unless President Biden defuses the Permian climate bomb exploding in my backyard," said one opponent from El Paso, "we won't prevent catastrophic climate change."
The commitment to fight climate change is for the capitalist class and their political representatives a "green" investment possibility.
"Nebraska residents the ability to hold their utilities accountable to serving the public interest."
In any reasonable world, such a military budget should be considered both unaffordable and deeply unsuitable when it comes to addressing the true threats to this country.
"The good news is, we've promised to reduce our emissions, and if you take all our promises and add them together, that puts us on track for still very much f**ked by 2050."
Neoliberal Democrats are struggling to connect with working-class voters whose communities have lost manufacturing jobs.
The Trump conspirators haven't given up on overthrowing the US government—and they may yet succeed.
"Our leaders must do whatever it takes to limit warming to 1.5°C. This means strong commitments and just actions—today."
The most outrageous injustice is that the same people who lack access to water and sanitation are usually the ones most vulnerable to the effects of climate change—and the least responsible for causing it in the first place.
If all the announced net-zero commitments are implemented, the global temperature would rise 1.8°C by 2100, policy experts said, adding, "but this is only IF these targets are fully implemented, and it's a big IF."
The fact that heavily Trump counties had over three times more Covid-19 deaths in October than heavily Biden counties shows that "anti-science aggression on the right has had deadly consequences," said one epidemiologist.
"States have, at the very least, a duty not to obstruct TRIPS waiver negotiations," reads a legal opinion endorsed by 85 jurists from around the world.
"This man should not serve in Congress," said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). "Fantasizing about violently attacking your colleagues has no place in our political discourse and society."
African countries need investments, China needs raw materials, and African activists are fed up with the resulting corruption and environmental damage.
"We are fighting for that which is most sacred: our survival. And any nation that is here fighting for coal or other fossil fuels should be condemned for it."
If we continue not acting against the real cause of the climate crisis—the capitalist mode of production and the capitalist worldview—they will take it as a social license to carry on with collapse.
"Sen. Joe Manchin said, 'If we wanted liberal policies, we should elect more liberals,' and that's exactly what this program will do."
Though the sector used the climate talks to make new emission pledges applauded as "signs of encouraging progress," experts continued to raise alarm about practices that wreck the planet.
"There are steps we can take to prevent this dire outcome," 58 advocacy groups write in an open letter, "but we must take swift action."
"There are now more than 45 million people marching towards the brink of starvation."
