Climate Change and Politics

Representatives from a small group of nations providing absolutely essential, increasingly scarce ecosystems services met in Paramaribo, Suriname Feb. 12-15. Swimming against the rising tide of tech-driven industrialization and globalization, deforestation, and a Sixth Great Extinction, the efforts of High Forest Cover and Low Deforestation (HFLD) countries go largely unacknowledged and little valued. Identifying and elaborating ways to increase international awareness regarding the growing …

The Trump administration defies utilities, scientists, health professionals, and his own EPA to rollback mercury emissions standards and put lives in danger

A scan of the past week's climate news suggests this may be the case.

After Ryan Zinke left in disgrace, Trump's nomination of David Bernhardt As Interior Secretary represents more of the same: the fox guarding the henhouse.

For more than a month, environmental protections, pollution monitoring, data gathering, and access to national parks has ground to a halt

In the age of Trump, it is open season mission-driven leadership among the government's most useful agencies. Instead, Trump's men plunder and hide.

by  David Waskow, Joe Thwaites and Yamide Dagnet, courtesy of the World Resources Institute Next month’s UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland (COP24) is seen by many as the most important climate negotiation since 2015, when 196 countries created a vision for a zero-carbon future by adopting the landmark Paris Agreement. This year’s summit is the critical juncture for countries to agree on the rules for turning this vision …