Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.
My focus shall be on what we can do, as activists, to help translate humanity’s remaining capacities into the necessary praxes, into the collective actions that will permit us jointly to say: “We did our damned best!”
At COP27, nations in the Global South have been increasingly focused on securing the means to address the impacts of climate change that are already here.
Progressive and leftist voters are always told we’re too extreme. The midterm results should quash that narrative. Results suggest that when the Democratic Party listened to its progressive flank voters rewarded its politicians.
At COP27, activists will be focused on all the ways developed nations have made it harder for developing nations to survive the climate crisis
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Harnessing ocean waves for grid-scale electricity production would be a major boon to the clean energy industry. Now, an influx of federal funding is helping U.S. companies test wave energy technologies, giving hope that wave power will see massive growth over the next few decades.
Details on the permitting reform demanded by Senator Manchin remain scant. Many fear it could prove a giveaway to fossil fuel companies. The majority leader seems determined to see it through, despite ever more Democrats expressing their skepticism.
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