by Deborah Phelan | Apr 21, 2023 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, SLAPPS
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a seven-year lawsuit against Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International brought by Resolute Forest Products. After Greenpeace exposed Resolute’s unsustainable forestry practices, the...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 21, 2023 | Climate Change, Loss and Damage, Youth and Climate Change
The United Nations General Assembly voted last month to engage the International Court of Justice at The Hague in weighing in on the responsibility of high-emitting countries to engage in actions to address climate change. The resolution was sponsored by Vanuatu, one...
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 31, 2022 | Climate Change
The reelection of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil was one of the most exciting and hopeful happenings in the world of climate change in 2022. Lula ran on a platform that promised to reign in miners, land grabbers, and illegal loggers who are rapidly...
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 31, 2022 | Climate Change
As 2022 draws to a close, we are left with chilling evidence that global warming is a force unlike any we have ever encountered. And we are not in any way manning our battle stations with the tools to battle it. In a year that saw some victories — the passage of the...
by Deborah Phelan | Nov 20, 2022 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, COP27, Loss and Damage
As the COP27 UNFCCC climate talks were gaveled to completion in the early hours of Sunday morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the failure to mention the necessary phase out of fossil fuels in the concluding document marked a huge win for the industry and for oil...
by Deborah Phelan | Nov 13, 2022 | Climate Change, COP27
Two dozen Ukrainian officials in attendance at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheihk, Egypt, are making the case that the Russian invasion of their country is resulting in a humanitarian as well as an environmental crisis. “This is not simply a war, this is state terrorism and it...
