KARWAR DECLARATION: Emerging from the Energetic 4-Day National Conclave of NACEJ at Karwar, Karnataka(26th – 29th March, 2026) and connecting the spirit of Earth Day & Workers Day 2nd May,…
Many of the people who’ve been working for years on climate issues assembled this week in Santa Marta, Colombia for a conference on how to get off fossil fuels. Sponsored…
In 2025, Australia offered the world’s first ‘climate refugee’ visas to the citizens of Tuvalu—an island at almost certain risk of sinking beneath the waves in the not-so-distant future. Indeed, two…
(The Transitioning away from fossil fuel conference is happening this week in Santa Marta, Columbia. Inside scuttlebutt suggests the conference organizers are (wisely?) aiming for reasonable, achievable goals in this…
Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being simultaneously ineffectual and intrusive, was the mediating entity for…
The world is its hottest in modern human history (circa 1500-present). Yet, fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue unabated, effectively creating an artificial blanket that retains heat. Despite decarbonization efforts, emissions…
So, it’s more than ten years since the celebrated 2015 Paris Climate Agreement – and humanity remains totally unprepared for the cataclysmic consequences of accelerating climate change. In truth, our efforts to…
I woke up this Earth Day morning in Santa Barbara, California—which is appropriate, since the offshore oil spill here in 1969 was one of the galvanizing events for the first…
India’s extreme heat is being treated as a climate crisis. It is also a labour crisis and that distinction is the difference between advisories and enforceable rights. And this framing…
Every once in a while I have to snap out of the hypnotic grip of the bizarre news cycle and remind myself—and you—that there’s something even more important underway than the obvious…
The planet’s climate system has turned erratic. Scientific reports over the past 24 months signal trouble ahead as forecasts become impossible with a helter-skelter system. It’s almost like the planet…
It has been repeatedly shown through all kinds of studies that South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change impacts. India, being the most populous and…
Abstract: The world is being urbanized at an unprecedented rate. With the rush to smarten up its cities, the cities in the world are at risk of developing fragile infrastructures…
On March 13th, buried in the New York Times’s coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of war coverage: “As El…
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and industry totaled 38.11 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2025, hitting a record high, versus 25.51 GtCO2 in 2000. Moreover, the rate…
Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists. Attacks on gas fields, oil…
Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the…
Global warming is on a very ominous trend that has never happened throughout human history, according to a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters. The rate of global warming has…
We are now in a global fossil fuel crisis. With oil and liquefied natural gas from the Persian Gulf unable to reach international markets due to Iran’s blockade of the…
ABIDJAN – The Belém Package – the set of climate-finance and adaptation measures adopted at last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil – was limited in scope.…
Abstract Geopolitics in capitalism is greatly shaped by energy and raw material availability, technology, production systems, finance and markets. Of these factors, energy plays a central role. Power in 2025 flows…
To tackle climate change, the global outlook must change from “Gain maximisation for a few” to “Risk minimisation for all.” Capitalism will not do this as it supports profit maximisation…
“Unless we find a way to overcome anti-science, humankind will face its gravest threat yet --- the collapse of civilization as we know it… There is a highly organized well-funded…
The fact that CO2 causes global warming has been known for 125 years, and scientific knowledge about climate change has grown with time. Yet, capitalism has turned a blind eye…
I am (mostly) going to take a break from writing about the war for a day, because big though it is, it’s not quite the biggest thing happening on our…
The month of March is generally considered the beginning of the spring season. During this period, winter gradually retreats and a mild warmth begins to be felt in the atmosphere.…
Why the Climate Era Demands Systems That Protect Life, Not Just Targets In my earlier reflections ahead of COP30, I emphasized the moral urgency of climate action. Belém revealed something…
A week ago I made my geopolitical point about the then-new Iran war—any leader with a brain would be trying to build up their clean energy capacity to avoid the…
The formal recognition of the Disability Caucus within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is more than an institutional adjustment. It is a decisive step toward inclusive…
I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese…
According to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s most respected climate scientists, and based upon a 30-year uninterrupted trendline: “We are headed for 3°C-4°C of warming across this century,…
Kashmir has always experienced time in ways that seem to rise above dates and calendars. In the Valley, seasons are sensed through the temperament of mountains, the whisper of rivers,…
Earth’s climate system has suddenly shifted to a new phase of global warming acceleration that few saw coming. This ups the ante for risks of severe climate-related disaster scenarios following…
America’s abandonment of the “endangerment finding” undergirding national climate policy is not the most important thing that happened last week. That decision was an act of gross stupidity, but it…
In the lead-up to the Trump administration effectively destroying the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to combat the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency, an international team of scientists warned Wednesday that “Earth’s climate is now departing from the…
It was another bead in the string of jurisprudence and case law in climate litigation. Previous sparkling examples include Urgenda Foundation (2019), KlimaSeniorinnen (2024) and the significant Advisory Opinion of…
Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that support life on Earth. These crucial ecosystems…
There is an urgent need to update publics and policymakers on our climate situation in 2026 and what effective mitigation policies must mean now. We’ve passed the 1.5C temperature rise…
WASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump rose to power partly by positioning himself as a foil to global elites. But last week, he attended the World Economic Forum (WEF)…
Sheeple is defined as “people who are like sheep, meek, conforming, easily led.” And they are easy to herd when frightened. America’s most prominent sheeple are well known leaders in…
Climate change has emerged as one of the most serious challenges of our time, profoundly affecting the global economy and the environment. However, its impacts are not experienced uniformly across…
WARWICK, NEW YORK – The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference ended in a political deadlock. COP30 in Belém produced no agreement to phase out fossil fuels, no binding plan…
16th January 2026:The National Alliance for Climate and Ecological Justice (NACEJ) strongly condemns the raids, searches, and intimidation of climate activists Harjeet Singh and Sanjay Vashisht by Indian enforcement agencies.…
When early-spring flower blooms in early-winter, the underlying reading may be the climate change signal. In the heart of winter this January, something caught my eye that stopped me in…
There is one crucial argument that the climate justice movement carried with it. For a brief period of time, it seemed like it was integrated into the general knowledge of…
Each New Year prompts us to think about hope. As we enter 2026, how might we think about our prospects for hope? Just as we witnessed the latest in a…
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget) from October 2024 to September 2025 temperatures across the entire…
FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS – In global climate policy, the ocean was long treated as an afterthought, too vast to manage effectively and too resilient to be degraded. Instead, the focus was…
As 2026 begins, what a strange planet we find ourselves on. The two great empires of my youth, the Soviet Union (now Russia) and my own country, are clearly experiencing…
Where are we at climate wise at the end of another year and what can we look forward to in 2026? The spectrum of opinion is broad and deep. The…
BOSTON – Humanity has long learned to live with extreme weather. Much of the Netherlands would be under water were it not for centuries of ingenious adaptation to the constant…
MELBOURNE – While the ocean’s health is perilously close to a tipping point, 2025 offered reasons for hope. In fact, over the next five years, we have an opportunity to…
The prevailing dominant ideology focuses largely on either individual actions or technological interventions for tackling the ongoing climate crisis. The arsenal of this ideology includes the constant refrains of “recycle,…
Slowing ocean currents could make the UK uninhabitable within a generation. Scientists and activists are demanding action, but the government is stalling. The plan was to stand outside the Houses…
Thwaites, the most studied glacier in the world, commands attention because it is not only the widest in the world at 80 miles but also the shakiest. And its nickname…
COP 30 emitted a lot of CO2 and a lot of hot air, neither of which helped in slowing down global warming. After COP 30, the continued heated, unending debates…
The use of fossil fuels by capitalism has created winners and losers, and this process will deepen with more warming. Capitalism has facilitated the Global North and the bourgeoisie in…
Given the current trajectory of global development, global warming cannot be halted to a 1.5 °C temperature rise over pre-industrial times. Many climate-related impacts will not reverse in the short…
The impact of climate change on human life has long been felt across the world, but the recently published global survey has revealed the full intensity of the crisis. The…
During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém do Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, United Nations…
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