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G20 backslides on fossil fuel subsidies: report
AFP, Published on 10/11/2020
» PARIS: Rich nations are still providing more than half a trillion dollars annually to fossil fuel projects despite committing to slash greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris climate deal, research showed Tuesday.
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Barclays finances more fossil fuel firms despite green vow: NGOs
AFP, Published on 11/11/2020
» LONDON: British bank Barclays has increased its financing of fossil fuel firms this year, despite vowing to tackle climate change, data from NGO network Fund our Future showed Wednesday.
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Fossil-fuel industry tactics abetting climate crisis
Oped, Published on 01/09/2023
» As the world grapples with an unprecedented confluence of devastating floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by big-business interests peddling false remedies and promoting deceptive narratives.
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Can a righteous resistance ever cross the line?
Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 22/01/2021
» Sabotage, in French and in English, indicates the act of deliberately destroying or damaging property. It's an apparatus that aims at weakening an enemy or oppressor through means such as subversion and obstruction. It is a tool that, we are told, has been adopted by French workers as a substitute for strikes, but sabotage doesn't limit itself only to workplaces. Its literature survey connotes that it occurs within a variety of contexts -- in wars, political and social campaigns, or socio-economic programmes that effect someone's livelihood. In all cases, however, the intent of sabotage is analogous -- to use extreme civil disobedience to inflict damage upon goods or properties in order to serve a particular purpose or higher goal. The end justifies the means, according to the saboteurs.
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Time ripe to curb fossil fuel use
Oped, Published on 22/09/2021
» The summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters. The list -- which includes flooding in China and Western Europe, heatwaves in North America, extreme drought in Africa, and wildfires in the sub-Arctic and Southern Europe -- is long, growing, and global.
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Big fossil fuel producers' plans far exceed climate targets, UN says
Reuters, Published on 20/10/2021
» LONDON: Major economies will produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with meeting climate goals set in the 2015 Paris accord to curb global warming, the United Nations and researchers said on Wednesday.
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Planned fossil fuel output shatters 1.5C climate target: UN
AFP, Published on 20/10/2021
» PARIS: The world's nations are currently planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Biden to halt fossil fuel leasing on federal land
AFP, Published on 27/01/2021
» WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will announce new bans on drilling on federal lands, as well as a US-hosted climate summit in April, as part of a raft of actions that take aim at rising global temperatures.
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Biden poised to halt fossil fuel leasing on federal land
AFP, Published on 27/01/2021
» WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden was planning to announce new bans on oil and gas drilling on federal lands Wednesday as part of a raft of actions that take aim at climate change, according to reports and a White House memo.
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How climate change fuels extreme heat
AFP, Published on 22/06/2023
» TOKYO - Heatwaves across Asia and beyond have already broken records this year, while the arrival of the El Nino climate phenomenon will mean even more extreme temperatures.
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