(2024-05-15). Banks Financed Fossil Fuels By $6.9 Trillion Since The Paris Agreement. popularresistance.org The 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks in leading roles. It cuts through greenwash, covering the world's top 60 banks' lending and underwriting to over 4,200 fossil fuel companies and the financing of companies causing the degradation of the Amazon and Arctic. Backgrounder of the report's key findings can be found here. | Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world's 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half — $3.3 trillion…
(2024-05-15). Wednesday 9/18: Justin Pearson: No Justice Without Climate Justice. indybay.org The Commonwealth Club of California | 110 The Embarcadero | Taube Family Auditorium | San Francisco, CA 94105 | Or join the event online…
(2024-05-15). Defense Attorney Ron Kuby on Trump Criminal Trial & Representing Climate & Pro-Palestinian Protesters. democracynow.org 
In the historic criminal hush money election fraud trial of former President Donald Trump, New York prosecutors are wrapping up their case charging Trump with falsifying business records in an illegal effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen admitted he misled the Federal Election Commission about hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. In cross-examination, defense attorneys tried to suggest Cohen was motivated by vengeance against Trump. "He's the one who has firsthand knowledge of the actual deal that he and Donald…
(2024-05-15). 'Bluelining' Leaves Climate Vulnerable Communities Without Home Insurance. otherwords.org In an era of climate disasters, Americans in vulnerable regions will need to rely more than ever on their home insurance. But as floods, wildfires, and severe storms become more common, a troubling practice known as "bluelining" threatens to leave many communities unable to afford insurance — or obtain it at any price. | Bluelining is an insidious practice with similarities to
(2024-05-15). Philippine FDA Bans 3 Lead-Containing Spray Paints. pressenza.com 15 May 2024, Quezon City. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against the purchase and use of three imported spray paints containing toxic lead, a potent neurotoxin that is banned in the manufacture of paints as per DENR Administrative Order No. 2013-24. | In three successive advisories posted on the FDA website on May 14, the FDA announced that the following products were tested and found positive for lead above the maximum limit of 90 parts per million (ppm): | 1. Nikko Spray All Purpose Quick Drying High Gloss Acrylic, grass green (FDA Advisory No. 2024-0765) | 2. Chappie Spray Pain…
(2024-05-15). Choosing hope: at the crossroads of the future. pressenza.com 
We are at a turning point in human history, facing major existential crises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine raises the risk of a nuclear weapon being used to a level not seen since the Cold War. And the climate crisis is accelerating. Amid these crises, it is the most vulnerable people who are most affected. | In this context, the UN Future Summit will be held for the first time in September to strengthen global cooperation and reinvigorate the multilateral approach to address these challenges. It will be a unique opportunity to change the course of humanity towards a world free of violence, where no one…
(2024-05-15). Climate scientists sound new warning over devastating warming. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-05-15). Creating credible carbon market in Africa. independent.co.ug 
INTERVIEW | RAPHAEL OBONYO | Carbon markets are increasingly dominating conversations about climate change interventions, especially in Africa. The world's largest carbon market auction was held last June in Nairobi, where more than 2.2 million tonnes of carbon credits sold. Africa Renewal's Raphael Obonyo spoke to Riham ElGizy, CEO of Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Company (RVCMC) …
(2024-05-15). Tribes could lease their water to dry states. Why is it so hard? grist.org 
The Colorado River Indian Tribes now have the ability to lease their water rights off-reservation, a move that could ease pressures on communities facing the effects of climate change through drought. The option may prove to be financially beneficial for the Colorado River Indian Tribes, also known as CRIT, but experts say the ability of the tribe to enter the water market is an outlier: For Indigenous Nations in the Southwest with a desire to sell their water, the process is so convoluted, it may take years before tribes, or non-tribal communities to see any financial benefit or much needed water. | This mont…
(2024-05-15). Schneider Electric automates India's Largest Single Stage Wastewater Treatment Plant. devdiscourse.com • The Delhi Jal Board plant has the capacity to sustainably treat 564 million liters per day of sewage.
(2024-05-15). Sino-US youth exchanges are vital — and Hong Kong has a role to play. scmp.com Amid threats such as climate change, more exchanges and dialogues between young people in the US and China can help forge trust. Hong Kong also has a crucial role to play when it comes to connecting youth across the Pacific, owing to its unique concentration of intellectual capital.
(2024-05-15). Climate Professor Thinks We Should 'Cull' the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets. wattsupwiththat.com The trouble is, we just don't understand how brilliant he is.
(2024-05-15). Climate activists Rise Up outside Kirribilli House. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-05-15). The Dubious Dance of Cooling Glaciers in a Warming World. wattsupwiththat.com It is crucial to not shoehorn every observation into the global warming narrative.
(2024-05-15). The CADTM Denounces the Lack of Action on Climate Change and the Neoliberal Approach of the Bretton Woods Institutions. cadtm.org
(2024-05-15). Jordan's tech entrepreneurs take on mounting waste challenge. newarab.com 
Throughout Jordan, residents are raising the alarm over informal dumpsites, where piles of household waste, construction debris, and other discarded materials are plaguing the outskirts of major cities. | According to eyewitnesses across several governorates, the sight of garbage mounds has become a common occurrence in the Levant country, where a growing solid waste crisis is threatening the lives of its 11.9 million citizens. | "Jordan produces 2.7 million tonnes of solid municipal waste each year, and only seven percent is recycled, while a whopping 93 percent is buried or left to rot in the open," says Ra'
The climate crisis has increased the number of extreme disastersGlobal VoicesCivilians help with rescues in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in the floods that hit the state. Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, is going through the worst climate disaster in its history. From April 28 onward, a major part of its territory, about the size of the United Kingdom, has been submerged