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The world is in the throes of unprecedented repression regarding climate activists, human rights defenders, journalists, academics and others who express opposing views to their government. The problem is widespread and three leading civil society networks – Climate Action Network, Publish What You Pay and Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice assert this as an epidemic impeding crucial climate action and violating human rights laws across the world. Without these voices of civil society, the fight for climate justice cannot succeed, jeopardising the integrity of climate summits themselves.

"Protests are fundamentally disruptive, that is the nature of protests [but] the fact that there is disruption doesn’t mean it’s not a protected right"

Linda Lakhdhir

Legal Director, Climate Rights International

The world’s largest institutional emitter, the U.S. military, sits beyond the reach of the metrics meant to hold countries accountable for climate pollution. Exempt from transparency requirements at the COP or within U.N. climate agreements, the military sector is, in fact, the leading institutional driver of the climate crisis. It burns through fossil fuels on a scale that surpasses entire nations while waging wars that destroy lives, communities, and the land itself. It’s a deliberate omission, one meant to hide the environmental and social costs of militarism from view.

In the past year alone, the war on Gaza has been a horrifying example of militarism’s environmental toll. Entire communities were leveled under the firepower of U.S.-funded bombs. In just two months, emissions from these military activities equaled the yearly carbon output of 26 countries. This violence bleeds beyond borders. U.S. police forces train with the Israeli military, and they’ll soon bring their war tactics to Atlanta’s Cop City, where a training center is planned on sacred Indigenous land.

It’s easy to despair in the face of such unaccountable power. But in times of crisis, clarity can become a weapon. We must expose the truth that militarism is antithetical to climate justice. True climate solutions don’t come from polite panel discussions led by those who wield the tools of destruction. They come from radical honesty and demands for accountability. They come from a commitment to ending the empire choking our planet and communities. And they come from a shared goal of mutual liberation that doesn’t ignore the plight of the many to serve the few.

'Oil and gas, Aliyev said, are “a gift of the God”'

We are doomed

Oil and gas company had challenged 2021 ruling that it must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030

A federal program that aims to clean up 33 industrial facilities, from steel mills to snack plants, could face big cuts in Trump’s second term.

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/647909

Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya

Or am I smoking too much copium?

The paper is here

Just how bad a second Trump Administration will be for climate policy remains to be seen, but the most likely scenarios are all pretty bleak.

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The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing, says climate crisis campaigner Greta Thunberg

One microorganism in particular has captured scientists’ attention. UTEX 3222, nicknamed “Chonkus” for the way it guzzles carbon dioxide, is a previously unknown cyanobacterium found in volcanic ocean vents.