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‘We Need to Address the Issues of Burnout, Anxiety, and Sustaining the Movement’

DeSmogBlog

Since starting a solitary strike against climate inaction in Kampala in January, 2019, aged 22, Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated youth climate justice activists. Who is heard in climate negotiations? Now a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador , she will be attending the COP28 U.N.

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Conservative Party Funds Anti-ULEZ Facebook Ad Blitz

DeSmogBlog

Although London boroughs are not going to the polls in the 2023 local elections coming up on on 4 May, the proposed ULEZ expansion has been a key campaign issue in the areas bordering the capital, many of which are set to vote. million times, at a cost to the party of up to £19,100. Under the scheme, a daily charge of £12.50

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Each storm season brings increased stress and fear for the people of Kivalina, a tiny Native village of some 400 Inupiaq people that sits on a small barrier island on the shore of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. At the turn of the 19 th century, the Indigenous people in the surrounding area were forced to settle on this island by the U.S.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. We end our journey by looking into the (potentially disastrous) consequences that follow from the melting of Arctic ice.

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Could 'Blue on Blue' rows determine the UK's green future?

Business Green

But in keeping with the seriousness of the Covid-era the next month looks set to be dominated by an intensifying and hugely important political row over the future of both the British economy and the planet itself. Another told the paper that "washing plates has set our climate change messaging back a year". He didn't appoint her.

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America's Turning Tide: The Inflection Point that will Take us from Darkness to Light

Green Market Oracle

Former first lady Michelle Obama and former president Barack Obama who called Americans to defend their democracy. Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris who offered us an intimate portrait of her life and career and the Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden, whose speech earned praise from both the left and the right.