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Walmart claims to be environmentally friendly, but the details tell a different story.
Dec 3, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
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The developed world has pledged $9.5 billion to help fight climate change. But it’s going to take hundreds of billions more.
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Beijing’s carbon-reduction targets are already far more ambitious than Washington’s.
Sep 26, 2014 / Lucia Green-Weiskel
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As climate activists converge on New York, world leaders will meet behind closed doors with corporate honchos who bank on fossil fuels.
Sep 18, 2014 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Janet Redman and Foreign Policy In Focus
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Wishful thinking and corporate greed are leading us down the wrong path to solving our climate crisis.
Jul 28, 2014 / Naomi Oreskes
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How about a 40 percent cut by 2030 based on 1990 levels?
Jun 4, 2014 / Editorial / The Editors
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A bill to block renewable energy standards is the product of an aggressive campaign by conservative groups to undermine laws that encourage the development of clean energy.
May 29, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter
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When workers gain democratic control over their energy futures, they won’t just be trying to cope with climate change, they’ll be overturning entrenched economic struct...
Apr 23, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen
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A conversation with Jacqueline Patterson, executive director of the NAACP’s Climate Justice Initiative.
Apr 22, 2014 / Blog / Steven Hsieh
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The eulogies for peak oil came too soon.
Jan 9, 2014 / Michael T. Klare