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2024-05-16: News Headlines

Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition (2024-05-16). Wednesday 5/29: #Summer Of Heat: Join the Summer of Actions Campaign Against Wall Street & Fossil Fuels. indybay.org Zoom organizing call: www.summerofheat.org/get-involved

Commonwealth Club (2024-05-16). 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…

Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition (2024-05-16). Wednesday 5/15: # SummerofHeat: Join the Summer of Actions Campaign Against Wall Street & Fossil Fuels. indybay.org Zoom organizing call: www.summerofheat.org/get-involved

ecns.cn (2024-05-16). (W.E. Talk) Ramping up tariffs on China, blatant U.S. double standard on so-called China 'overcapacity'. ecns.cn What is the intention of Western politicians to hype up the so-called China "Overcapacity theory"? What is the purpose of the United States imposing tariffs on China and insisting on ramping up tariff barriers?How has the development of China's new energy and other industries contributed to the realization of global climate goals and global energy transition? | In the latest W.E. Talk, Wang Yiwei, dean of EU Research Center at Renmin University of China and chair professor at Jean Monnet, Warwick Powell, adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and senior fellow at the Taihe Institute and founder,…

Michelle Pini (2024-05-16). Australia and the AUKUS nuclear waste-dump clause. independentaustralia.net

Jake Bittle (2024-05-16). How 'kitty cats' are wrecking the home insurance industry. grist.org

Kate Yoder (2024-05-16). The American Climate Corps will get people into green jobs. Can it help their mental health too? grist.org In the depths of the Great Depression in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt

greenleft.org.au (2024-05-16). Climate scientists sound new warning over devastating warming. greenleft.org.au

Guest Blogger (2024-05-16). Michigan Government: Stacked Top to Bottom with Donor-provided Climate Activist "Staff" wattsupwiththat.com With Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filing the "climate" lawsuit that campaign supporter Michigan LCV had lobbied her to file against energy companies, and the UM law school faculty putting the shoulder to the wheel as well, GAO recalls the recently unearthed record of just how occupied Michigan's government is with donor-financed "climate staff".

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2024-05-15: News Headlines

Shawna Ambrose, Rainforest Action Network. (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…

Commonwealth Club (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…

Staff (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…

Jessica Garcia (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

EcoWaste Coalition (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…

Inter Press Service (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…

greenleft.org.au (2024-05-15). Climate scientists sound new warning over devastating warming. greenleft.org.au

The Independent (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) …

Taylar Dawn Stagner (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…

noemail (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.

Brian Y. S. Wong (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.

Guest Blogger (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.

greenleft.org.au (2024-05-15). Climate activists Rise Up outside Kirribilli House. greenleft.org.au

Charles Rotter (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.

CADTM International (2024-05-15). The CADTM Denounces the Lack of Action on Climate Change and the Neoliberal Approach of the Bretton Woods Institutions. cadtm.org

newarab (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'

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