Why haven’t we solved the climate crisis yet?
With so many shocking climate impacts happening around the world, I reached out to some of my colleagues across 350.org to help answer this crucial question.
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CoP22: Marrakesh
One year on from the Paris climate change agreement, the world is coming together again in Marrakesh, Morocco, for COP22 from November 7 – 18.
In the year since the Paris agreement, climate change has marked the lives of billions of people: from deadly heatwaves in India, severe drought across South Africa and the Horn of Africa, unprecedented coral reef bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, to the deadly force of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti and the United States2016 has been the hottest, most extreme year on record, causing misery for hundreds of millions around the world.
The only way to meet the targets in the Paris Agreement, and to limit warming to no more than 1.5℃, countries must agree to immediately halt new coal, oil and gas development and finance a just transition towards a 100% renewable energy future for all. Renewable energy is fast becoming a revolutionary economic force for a just transition away from fossil fuels while empowering communities at the front lines of climate change with the resources they need to respond to the crisis.
Join us as we mobilise through COP22, led by our African & Arab World Team. We’ll be sharing updates, showing how climate change is affecting the people of Africa & the Middle East, and mobilising for government action. It’s time to turn the hope of the Paris agreement into action.
FREEZE NEW FOSSIL FUEL DEVELOPMENT
Governments meeting at the next climate conference must put their Paris pledges into action — and action means no more room for new fossil fuel projects. Tell them to end all new fossil fuel development and transition to investing only in the 100% renewable technology that will power an end to energy poverty.
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Summer Organizing Fellowship with 350 Canada
The 350 Canada team is looking for individuals in several priority ridings in ON, BC, and AB to join us for a 4 month climate organizing fellowship, from May-August 2024.
Heavy rains in Brazil: the era of “It’s the same every year” is a thing of the past. We’ve taken a turn for the worse.
We’ve long been outraged by the tragedies foretold every summer, but the climate crisis is eroding even the predictability that used to incense us.
An End to Coal in New England & Hint at a Transition Plan
No Coal No Gas, a campaign launched by the Climate Disobedience Center and 350 New Hampshire, has successfully SHUT DOWN New England’s last remaining coal plant. Public pressure has also helped force the power company to make a transition plan that brings clean energy to a community that has been burdened by coal.
Fossil gas extraction in Amazonas is irregular, damaging to the environment, and harmful to Indigenous peoples
The Amazon Resists Network is intensifying its request to suspend operations in the Azulão Field, highlighting severe damage to Indigenous communities and a high risk of impact on peoples in voluntary isolation
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Repetitive Floods Intensify in West Africa
The 2016 wet season in West Africa has been particularly intense. In Ghana, heavy rains have caused massive flooding in the capital city and along the Cape Coast, leaving at least 10 people dead.
- 350 G-ROC
Artivism in Nigeria to Fight Fossil Fuels
Activists in Nigeria are using songs & poems to fight fossil fuels
- Landry Nintereste
Our Climate Photo Stories
A collection of photo stories by communities in Africa fighting fossil fuels and resisting the impacts of climate change
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