Category Archives: Global warming

Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.

Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26

Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.

Fifty Coral Reefs Selected as ‘Arks’ to Survive Climate Crisis

Australian scientists employ modern portfolio theory to target conservation priorities and generate a list of fifty priority coral reefs.

‘We Are Fighting Back’: Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay

Workers around the world held Make Amazon Pay protests to obtain fair wages, end Amazon’s tax avoidance, and lower its impact on the planet

Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out

How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.

Goodbye Glasgow: What’s Next for Global Climate Action?

After COP26, and as the debate on whether Glasgow represents a success or a failure dies down, what next for global climate action?

Apple Reverses Course on Right to Repair iPhones: More Concessions to Follow?

Apple announces a Self Service Repair program for iPhones 12 and 13, with broader company right to repair concessions expected to follow.

COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior

The ink is barely dry on COP26 pledges, and it’s not hard to see that they are largely for show.

Waste Watch: Fast Fashion Discards Pile Up in the Global South

The Glasgow COP26 talks have wound down with little to show, and scant progress in areas such as food, plastics, and fashion that also contribute to our global problems.

We Need Far More Radical Thinking Than Any COP26 Deal To Save the Planet

Recognizing that COP26 is not remotely ambitious enough is a step in the right direction. But it is still only a small step.

On the Duty to Obstruct

A recap of the progressive punt on the Build Back Better bill and the contention that duty demands much more radical action.

The Climate Fight Over Line 5, or the Upper Peninsula and Canada Versus Greenhouse Gas Absolutism

The fight over shutting down Line 5, a major oil pipeline, could set an important precedent.

‘This Must Not Happen’: If Unhalted, Permian Basin Fracking Will Unleash 40 Billion Tons of CO2 by 2050

Climate change activists have new oil and gas wells in their crosshairs, starting with the potential carbon bomb of the Permian Basin.

Carbon Tax Over-Rated

A carbon tax is an idea that has been around yet never deployed despite potential benefits because reasons, such as hurting the poor.