by Chris Blankenhorn | Apr 28, 2021 | Climate Change
By Howie Hawkins President Biden’s Earth Day pledge to cut carbon emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030 is a promise he cannot keep. The White House Fact Sheet released with Biden’s pledge added nothing to the climate actions in his American Jobs Plan announced on March 31....
by Chris Blankenhorn | Apr 13, 2021 | Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Running Green
Home to the world’s third largest rainforest, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a biodiversity as well as a cultural and linguistic diversity that is as great as any region on Earth. PNG’s biological and cultural diversity is under assault by the global economy. PNG’s...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Mar 11, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy Policy
By Howie Hawkins, March 11, 2021 Ten years ago today the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. It is far from over. It won’t be over for decades to come at best. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake caused the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan to shut down. A...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Feb 24, 2021 | Climate Change, Ecosocialism
By Howie Hawkins February 24, 2021 I was asked by Energy Advisor, a weekly publication of the Inter-American Dialogue, to write a 250 word commentary responding to the following questions. I sent them a shorter version of my response below, but here is a fuller...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Aug 20, 2020 | Climate Change, Ecosocialism
By Howie Hawkins, Mark Dunlea, and Jon Rynn The Green New Deal was the signature issue of the Green Party in the 2010s. Howie Hawkins was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010 running for New York governor. The Green Party’s presidential...
by H20 Staff | Dec 17, 2019 | Climate Change
Since forming in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) has had a nearly annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to review implementation and make decisions regarding the framework convention. The 25th COP meeting in Madrid this year...
