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The Climate Crisis Newsletter: Why 1.5 Degrees?

by Bill McKibben

Source: The Climate Crisis Newsletter

The number has dramatically reorganized global thinking around the climate.View in browser | Update your preferencesIt’s Earth Day +51, as we near the end of President Biden’s first hundred days, and forty world leaders are scheduled to join him for a virtual summit on climate change. “For those of […]

Water Stress: A Global Problem That’s Getting Worse | Council on Foreign Relations

Source: Water Stress: A Global Problem That’s Getting Worse | Council on Foreign Relations

Pope Francis, in Earth Day messages, warns ‘we are at the edge’ on climate change | Earthbeat | National Catholic Reporter

Source: Pope Francis, in Earth Day messages, warns ‘we are at the edge’ on climate change | Earthbeat | National Catholic Reporter

US 2030 goals will take world closer to holding global heating below 2C | Climate change | The Guardian

Source: US 2030 goals will take world closer to holding global heating below 2C | Climate change | The Guardian

RealClimate: Two graphs show the path to 1.5 degrees

Source: RealClimate: Two graphs show the path to 1.5 degrees

Rich People Paying Other Rich People for Carbon Offsets Is Not a Climate “Solution” | The New Republic

Source: Rich People Paying Other Rich People for Carbon Offsets Is Not a Climate “Solution” | The New Republic

There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It. – The New York Times

Source: There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It. – The New York Times

Civil society groups release “Fair Shares NDC” model – Friends of the Earth

Source: Civil society groups release “Fair Shares NDC” model – Friends of the Earth

Washington, DC— April 8, 2021 Today, environmental, environmental justice, and international development groups are releasing the “Fair Shares Nationally Determined Contribution” (“Fair Shares NDC”) laying out the measures the United States should commit to carrying out to do its “fair share” […]

Biden’s Emissions Targets and the Tyranny of Low Climate Expectations | The New Republic

Source: Biden’s Emissions Targets and the Tyranny of Low Climate Expectations | The New Republic

Letter of the Holy Father Francis on the occasion of the 2021 Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (5-11 April 2021)

Source: Letter of the Holy Father Francis on the occasion of the 2021 Spring Meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (5-11 April 2021)