by BrendanS | Apr 3, 2015 | Articles, LNS News, post
[By Jeremy Brecher; cross-posted with Waging NonViolence] Since international climate negotiations began a quarter of a century ago, annual greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions have increased by 60%. As we approach yet another climate summit this November in Paris, the...
by BrendanS | Dec 18, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the United Nations to indict political...
by BrendanS | Oct 20, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] Can an ancient legal principle with roots in Roman law serve as a tool for the climate protection movement? On October 23, Alec Johnson, aka “Climate Hawk,” is scheduled to go on trial for locking himself to a construction excavator in...
by BrendanS | Sep 20, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post, Uncategorized
The rebellion to save planet Earth: The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have...
by BrendanS | Aug 4, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[By Jeremy Brecher, Cross-posted with Waging Nonviolence] Nearly 100,000 people have pledged to risk arrest if the Obama administration appears poised to give approval to the Keystone XL pipeline. While it would be difficult to prove, it seems likely that the specter...
