Despite COP29 overrunning by 33 hours to finalise negotiations, the United Nations Conference of Parties on climate change ended without any agreements to meaningfully confront the climate crisis, reports Ben Radford.
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PM Scott Morrison said Australia would achieve net zero by 2050 鈥榯he Australian way鈥. It is聽pure spin, argues Petrina Harley.
Political leaders聽continue to ignore the consequences of their inaction, but history will judge them poorly and we will not accept it, argues聽Greta Thunberg.
The capitalist establishment has spent years debating whether or not Australia should have a 2050 climate target. It is a distraction from the task at hand, argues Alex Bainbridge.听听
The WA government wants to close the Fremantle container terminal and build a new one at Kwinana. The decision is fundamentally flawed on economic and environmental grounds, writes Sam Wainwright.
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg urges us to join the dots, but Pip Hinman writes that our governments won't do so unless we make them.
Fossil fuel corporations have already planned production to 2030 that will exceed the global carbon budget by 120%, writes Peter Boyle.
In her new 75-minute-long podcast entitled Humanity has not yet failed 鈥 recorded under the COVID-19 lock down 鈥 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg explains that there is no solution to the climate crisis without system change, writes Peter Boyle.
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg chose the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to add her voice to the push for society to 鈥渢ackle two crises at once鈥 鈥 the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, writes Jim McIlroy.
Zebedee Parkes reports that around the world climate activists are continuing to hold weekly Friday strikes for climate action 鈥 now online.
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
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On August 20, 2018, rather than go to school,聽Greta聽Thunberg sat outside the Swedish parliament to protest inaction on climate change. The then-15-year-old Swedish school student had with her some flyers and a hand-painted wooden sign that read Skolstrejk f枚r klimatet (school strike for the climate).
I had no idea that September 20 would be so huge. Greta Thunberg said to a reporter as she marched in New York: 鈥淚 would never have predicted this.鈥
It was just over a year ago that Thunberg, now 16 years old, began skipping school every Friday to protest in front of the Swedish parliament, demanding action to prevent catastrophic climate change.
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