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December 21, 2020 In the US, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) used the period immediately after he took office in 1933 to initiate a series of actions to calm the nation’s crippling financial panic. The 15 major pieces of legislation from these first 100 days became known as the New Deal. FDR’s productive beginning was popular with the masses, and his example set a first 100-day standard against which future US presidents would be measured. The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris admini...

by David Suzuki on Wednesday Dec 16 2020 Photo of David Suzuki by Jennifer Roessler; David Suzuki Foundation This is our last column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front — record-breaking global temperature increases, the U.S. backtracking on ecological protections and policies and pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, a worsening biodiversity crisis and more — the world was hit with a devastating p...

Beyond ‘net zero’ 12 December 2020 marked the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement. If we want to put the world on track towards delivering the action needed , South African public finance institutions must start to address a fundamental issue: plans to continue financing and even expanding finance of oil and gas extraction.    There is a graph that’s making the rounds on climate Twitter. It shows how, despite the many treaties and agreements reached over a period of decade...

Editorial: World still not doing enough on climate Register-Guard Representatives from nearly every country on Earth met in Paris five years ago and promised to work together in an unprecedented effort to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, with a preferred goal of capping the rise at 1.5 degrees. It took a lot of maneuvering and diplomacy by the Obama administration to reach that agreement after a similar effort six years earlier in Copenhagen failed. What cha...

by David Suzuki on December 16th, 2020 at 2:37 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1 This is our last column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front—record-breaking global temperature increases, the U.S. backtracking on ecological protections and policies and pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, a worsening biodiversity crisis and more—the world was hit with a devastating pandemic. We’ve been brought to a tipping point.   A common thread th...

5 year report card after Paris Climate Accord How countries’ climate policies match up to their promises, and whos aiming for net zero emissions  Even if every country meets its commitments, the world will still be on track to warm by more than 3 degrees Celsius this century, a new UNEP report shows.  This month marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement – the commitment by almost every country to try to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. It’s an ambitious...

Five years after the Paris Agreement, the world still isnt doing enough to combat climate change The Milford Daily News Representatives from nearly every country on Earth met in Paris five years ago and promised to work together in an unprecedented effort to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, with a preferred goal of capping the rise at 1.5 degrees. It took a lot of maneuvering and diplomacy by the Obama administration to reach that agreement after a similar e...

* 2National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia 3Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 4Precision Medicine, Platform on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum, San Francisco, CA, United States 5Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 6Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa 7Facultad de Medi...

It’s an ambitious goal, and the clock is ticking. The planet has already warmed by about 1 C since the start of the industrial era. That might not sound like much, but that first degree is changing the planet in profound ways, from more extreme heat waves that put human health and crops at risk, to rising sea levels. Bold visions for slowing global warming have emerged from all over the world. Less clear is how countries will meet them. So far, countries’ individual plans for how they wil...

Addressing a press meet on the eve of 'Five years of Paris Agreement', Prakash Javadekar said India is "walking the talk" on climate change as it has already achieved 21 per cent of its target of reducing emissions intensity of GDP by 33-35 per cent by 20