Climate-Related News
World Bank Is Ending Fossil Fuel Funding
On Tuesday, December 12th, the World Bank—which provides financial and technical support to developing countries—announced it will no longer finance oil and gas development projects after 2019…
World’s Largest Fund May Divest from Oil
On Thursday, the Fossil-Free Divestment movement that 350.org helped start in 2012 had an impact on the largest investor in the world, owner of 1.5% of all global stocks…
World CO2 to Hit Record High in 2017
The world is on its way to a 2% jump to record-high carbon emissions in 2017, after three straight years in which human-caused emissions appeared to be leveling off, new research shows…
Marin County & City Gov’ts Now 100% Deep Green! Are You?
On Oct. 4th, Tiburon voted to opt-up to Deep Green. That means, thanks to your efforts, now 100% of Marin County and City governments’ services use 100% renewable energy. Marin may be the first county in the nation to make that change…
San Francisco and Oakland Sue Big Oil on Climate
The city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland on Wednesday announced they are filing civil lawsuits against big oil companies for their role in knowingly creating climate change damage to their cities that that may eventually run into the billions of dollars…
The New Normal: Extreme Climate is Already Happening
All time heat records are being broken all along the west coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Weather analysts confirmed that Hurricane Harvey was certainly the greatest rainfall event ever measured in the country…
Harvard Study Finds Exxon Mislead Public on Climate
Last week, a peer-reviewed study was published by two Harvard researchers supporting the claim that Exxon knew long ago that climate change is real and caused by human activity, but issued misleading public communications raising strong doubts about those findings…
Trump Disbands National Climate Advisory Committee
Effective August 21, 2017, President Trump’s NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has disbanded the main Federal advisory group charged with informing and updating US public policy to address the climate crisis…
UK Also Announces 2040 Gas Vehicle Ban
Two weeks after France declared it would ban sale of gas and diesel vehicles by 2040, the United Kingdom announced it would do the same, to both address a building air pollution crisis and to meet its Paris climate commitments…