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As if there was any doubt, we can go ahead and officially add climate change to the list of things that we can’t count on billionaires to figure out for us. According to the New York Times, Breakthrough Energy, a joint venture between Bill Gates and a handful of other billionaires who at least nominally care about the environment, is laying off a significant portion of its staff, which will likely neuter its capability to lobby and influence policy.

The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, which was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average.

Anuna De Wever werd bekend als initiatiefneemster van de scholierenactie “Spijbelen voor het klimaat” en de jongerenklimaatmarsen in 2019 en als woordvoerster van “Youth for Climate”. Daarmee volgde ze samen met Kyra Gantois en de Waalse Adelaïde Charlier het voorbeeld van de internationale bewegingen “School Strikes 4 Climate” en “Fridays for Future”, in gang gezet door de Zweedse activiste Greta Thunberg.

Anuna De Wever werd bekend als initiatiefneemster van de scholierenactie “Spijbelen voor het klimaat” en de jongerenklimaatmarsen in 2019 en als woordvoerster van “Youth for Climate”. Daarmee volgde ze samen met Kyra Gantois en de Waalse Adelaïde Charlier het voorbeeld van de internationale bewegingen “School Strikes 4 Climate” en “Fridays for Future”, in gang gezet door de Zweedse activiste Greta Thunberg.

Donald Trump’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Adam Greenfield author of Lifehouse, Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire. A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.In this book Adam Greenfield, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us...

Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy

Climate change will fuel contests—and maybe wars—for land and resources.

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.