by Deborah Phelan | Jun 16, 2023 | Climate Change
Fake Twitter bots designed to discredit November’s COP28 and greenwash this year’s sponsor, the UAE, are promoting the Emirates’ climate credentials, according to reporting in today’s New York Times. Sultan al-Jaber, the Emirati official presiding over this...
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 | May 31, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule, Youth and Climate Change
I was reached out to by a young Indigenous leader who wanted to meet with me. We did so, and we had a deep and substantive talk for several hours. The one thing that has stayed with me about that conversation was when we discussed what could be coming down the road as...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security
2050kids is laying the groundwork for our first project, which would engage Northern California Native American communities in community-based biochar and permaculture practices to tackle the state’s historic drought, reduce climate change, and grow more...