fossil fuels
![Oil pumps in southern Russia. Photo: Gennadiy Kolodkin/World Bank](http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2014/12/russian-oil-300x225.jpg)
Miriam Pemberton directs the Peace Economy Transitions Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
![Young protesters at the U.N. climate talks in Lima, Peru highlight out-of-touch North American energy policies. Credit: Adopt a Negotiator.](http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2014/12/climate-protest-640-300x168.jpg)
While U.S. and Canadian officials delivered speeches about how the world needs to step up to their responsibilities at the U.N. climate negotiations in Lima, Peru, activists from North America demanded clear answers back home on their governments’ relationships with fossil fuel corporations, as well as the future of several major oil projects across the […]
![UN Climate Wall at COP 15, Copenhagen. Credit: Troels Dejgaard Hansen/cc by 2.0](http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2014/11/climate-wall-300x200.jpg)
– In recent days, two major developments have injected new life into international action on climate change. At the G20 summit in Australia, the United States pledged 3 billion dollars and Japan pledged 1.5 billion dollars to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), bringing total donations up to 7.5 billion so far. The GCF, established through […]
![Flooding on the A361, the main road from Taunton to Glastonbury, England. Scientists warn that climate change is well underway, producing costly and tragic extreme weather events. Credit: Mark Robinson/cc by 2.0](http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2014/11/flooding-in-england-300x200.jpg)
“Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we’re seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We can’t prevent a large scale disaster if we don’t heed this kind of hard science.” Question: Is that statement about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from Greenpeace or the U.S. […]
![Ban Ki-moon, Ségolène Royale, Laurent Fabius, Al Gore and Manuel Pulgar Vidal, Jane Goodall and Bill De Blasio link arms in climate action solidarity.](http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2014/09/Big_names_featured-300x225.jpg)
On Sunday, Sep. 21, at least 300,000 people filled the streets of New York City ahead of the U.N. General Assembly and special one-day Climate Summit Sep. 23 to protest the ongoing lack of political will to cut global CO2 emissions and kick-start a greener economy. They came by bus and bike and train. They […]
![Mining tar sands oil at Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. Credit: Chris Arsenault/IPS](http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/2014/07/tar-sands-chris-300x200.jpg)
Newly publicised internal documents suggest that U.S. negotiators are working to permanently block a landmark regulatory proposal in the European Union aimed at addressing climate change, and instead to force European countries to import particularly dirty forms of oil. Environmentalists, working off of documents released through open government requests, say U.S. trade representatives are responding […]
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