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Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears

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Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis. ExxonMobil says it’s made 18 oil discoveries in Guyana since 2015 — the same year the Paris Agreement was adopted — and the company started production in earnest in December 2019.

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5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism

GreenBiz

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. of how the climate crisis affects people. of how the climate crisis affects people. The business role in climate justice .

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A conservative think tank just sent 8,000 teachers a new climate denial ‘textbook

Grist

This shift has forced fossil fuel companies — and the organizations they fund — to alter their tactics to avoid regulation. A page on sea-level rise says “levels have been rising at a fairly steady pace since at least the mid-1800s,” but the rate has actually more than doubled in the 2000s when compared to most of the 20th century. “It’s

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The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach

Grist

When nations gathered in France in 2015, they initially were aiming to keep global temperatures “well below 2 degrees Celsius.” ‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future. degree goal was added into the Paris Agreement as a kind of afterthought. Far from it.

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Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

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degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and that this warming has “ unequivocally ” been caused by human activities , primarily burning fossil fuels. report from October found that countries’ climate policies and planned fossil fuel projects would cause nearly 3 degrees C (5.4 degrees C (2.7

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

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Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.