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| Aug 15, 2024 | National Politics | Climate change is a defining issue for young voters. Neither Harris nor Trump are doing enough, they say. | Strong sentiments about climate change were one of the most telling predictors of voting behavior in 2016 and 2020, particularly among independents and young Republicans, a University of Colorado study found. A quarter of Republicans who be... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Education Cannot Wait's New Climate Champion Adenike Oladosu Calls on World Leaders to Act #RightHereRightNow to Connect Climate Action with Education Action on World Environment Day | 'The interconnected challenges of armed conflicts, forced displacement, environmental degradation and climate change are putting an entire generation at risk. To address the growing education/climate crises, we must act #RightHereRightNow t... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Youth-led climate group gets a boost from Google's philanthropic arm | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Google's philanthropic arm is making one of its first rounds of funding for a youth-led climate organization to Climate Cardinals.
Why it matters: The donation itself is a signal that youth-led groups... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Meet the One Planet Advisory Council, a group of sustainability leaders supporting Insider's special climate coverage | Hervé Duteil, Cynthia Williams, Elijah McKenzie-Jackson, Omar Elmawi, Donnel Baird, Alyssa Gilbert, Abigail Ross Hopper, and Jacqueline Patterson Insider
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| Mar 28, 2022 | ProVeg International Launches Youth Board to Demand Food System Change | ProVeg International has formed a Youth Board of influential young activists from across the world, with the aim of reducing meat consumption by 50% by 2040 under the banner “Diet Change Not Climate Change”. The Youth Board will use the voi... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Shifting from fossil fuels to other assets is a growing investing strategy. How hard is it to make the switch? | Investors buying ESG funds might not be helping this solar farm as much as they think. Alex Wang/Getty Images Plus
Investors who participate in the divestment movement have capital for other assets.
A growing array of assets offer metrics, ... |
| Jun 6, 2021 | This 19-year-old climate advisor who started her own nonprofit and worked on Greta Thunberg’s youth strikes spends her days meeting UN officials and grabbing pizza with friends | . Sophia Kianni
Sophia Kianni, 19, is a climate change activist based in Virginia.
She works with the UN and the Gen Z consulting firm JUV.
She broke down what her typical day looks like.
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| May 18, 2021 | End New Fossil Fuel Development, IEA Demands In Groundbreaking Net Zero Plan | Last gasp for fossil fuels? Today the International Energy Agency announced there should be no new ... [+] investment in fossil fuel supplies or in coal fired power stations.ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Dec 12, 2020 | Airbnb: It's Been A Rollercoaster Ride | The Airbnb logo displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square on December 10, 2020 - ... [+] Photo by KENA BETANCUR /AFP via Getty Images |
| Nov 10, 2020 | How to Keep Pushing for Change Now That the Election Is Over | After a tumultuous and frightening four years of Donald Trump, Joe Biden has emerged victorious as the next President-elect of the United States—as many of us hoped, though he's far from a perfect candidate. Although Biden has pledged to sp... |
| Sep 21, 2020 | Youth Climate Activists Have Your Attention — Now They Want Action | 3 0
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A photo of a girl in a hoodie, skipping school to sit in front of a government building in Sweden with a no-frills sign: “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” or “School Strike for Climate”; a video of dozen... |
| Jun 7, 2020 | Your 2030 Sustainability Targets Are Wrong | A young boy holds a "Justice" sign. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| May 29, 2020 | Young Activists Start 8-Week Digital Campaign To Fight Climate Injustices Against Indigenous Communities | 9
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Fridays For Future Digital, the online student climate strike movement spurred on by the coronavirus pandemic, are launching a new 8-week-long digital campaign to raise awareness about how the climate emergency dispro... |
| Jan 3, 2020 | Prince William Launches Earthshot Prize Award To Help Solve Global Climate Crisis | 33 1
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Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, have launched a brand new prize to help solve the global climate crisis. The new Earthshot Prize, which will be awarded to five people every year over the next decade, ... |
| Sep 24, 2019 | IN-DEPTH: We Can’t Solve Climate Change If Banking Industry Keeps Funding Fossil Fuels | 1
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From funding deforestation projects to giving loans to fossil fuel companies and keeping them insured, the banking & financial industry is underwriting global warming and it needs to stop. The solution? Divestment.... |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Student Climate Strikes Across Asia: “There Is No Planet B” | 16 1
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For months, millions of young climate activists around the world have been taking to the streets on Fridays to demand governmental action on our planet’s most urgent issue: climate change. Ahead of the United Nati... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | Boulder County youth to join Global Climate Strike on Friday | In an effort to promote climate action from local, national and global leaders, youth in Boulder on Friday are taking part in the international Global Climate Strike.
The rally was initiated by Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate ... |
| Sep 17, 2019 | Covering Climate Now – Climate Change To Hit Asia The Hardest | 25 1
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While the effects of climate change will undoubtedly be felt all around the world, it will have the most devastating impact on Asia and the Pacific, home to roughly 60% of the global population. Extreme weather ev... |
| Mar 21, 2019 | Teenaged Activist Greta Thunberg Raises Global Awareness of Veganism | Over one million participants from 100 countries in over 2000 cities took part in the largest Fridays-for-Future demonstrations to date on 15th March. Climate change activist Greta Thunberg fascinates not only children and young adults, but... |
| Climate Crisis Weekly: Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching | Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered its third mass bleaching in five years.
The Welsh government will plant a national forest that will span the length and breadth of the country.
Vehicle emissions drop in March due to COVID-19, but... |
| Global Climate Strike: in pictures and video | Young people are leading marches, big and small, in a truly global climate strike today. (Adults are there, too.) They are protesting inaction on climate change by governments and businesses.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft
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| Youth will strike worldwide for climate action on Friday | On Friday, March 15, thousands of protests are planned across the globe with young people skipping school to protest against environmental inaction by their governments. This event is being organized by Fridays for Future globally and by US... |
| Youth climate strike: photos and videos from around the world | Young people around the world are skipping school today to protest a lack of action on climate change. Pictures and videos of the protests are rolling in from across the globe.
Students in more than 100 countries were planning to participat... |
| 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize | Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thunberg’s nomination comes from three fellow Scandinavians, Norwegian lawmakers Freddy André Øvstegård, Mona Fagerås, and Lars Haltbrek... |
| Climate strikes around the globe Sep. 20-27 led by youth — 3,500 events, 117 countries | Six months after youth took to the streets around the world demanding climate action, more climate strikes are scheduled this coming week. The strike events are mostly planned for Friday, September 20 and 27, but several more will take plac... |
| Climate Crisis Weekly: NASA explains sea-level rise — and yes, it’s real | NASA science writer Alan Buis explains why sea-level rise is real, even though you can’t see it.
Joe Biden names Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and John Kerry as co-chairs of his Climate Task Force.
Australian scientists say they have figured out... |
| Vanessa Nakate takes an African voice to Cop26 | Even limiting global temperature rises to 1.5°C would not be safe for many communities in Africa, Ugandan climate campaigner Vanessa Nakate told a rally of 100,000 fellow activists in Glasgow on 6 November.
“1.2C is already hell for us. It’... |
| COP26 Daily Briefing: 3 big things that happened on November 12 | The COP26, aka the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021, has officially finished in Glasgow. But the final agreement has not yet been put in place, and that will likely come over the weekend. Here’s Electrek‘s daily roundup of t... |