2018-2019

• ‘My moment’: the activists fighting climate crisis and winning elections, Dec 25, 2019...The Guardian
• Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action, Dec 20, 2019...The Guardian
• 2019 has been a year of climate disaster. Yet still our leaders procrastinate, Geoff Goldrick, Dec 20, 2019...The Guardian
• Australia's bushfires have emitted 250m tonnes of CO2, almost half of country's annual emissions, Dec 13, 2019...The Guardian
• Climate change to steer all New Zealand government decisions from now on, Dec 4, 2019...The Guardian

• Climate change strike: thousands of school students protest over bushfires, Nov 29^[1]
• Climate change: 'Bleak' outlook as carbon emissions gap grows, Nov 26^[2]
• Climate change: Greenhouse gas concentrations again break records, Nov 25^[3]
• Oxford Dictionaries declares 'climate emergency' the word of 2019, Nov 21^[4]
• Fossil fuel production on track for double the safe climate limit, Nov 20^[5]

Climate change: Irish Youth Assembly demands action, Nov 16^[6]

• Venice floods: Climate change behind highest tide in 50 years, says mayor, Nov 13^[7]
• Is climate change to blame for Australia's bushfires? Nov 11^[8]
• Australia bushfires: 'Unprecedented' fires turn skies orange, Nov 8^[9]
• Ardern says New Zealand on 'right side of history' as MPs pass zero-carbon bill, Nov 7^[10]
• Climate change: ‘Clear and unequivocal’ emergency, say scientists, Nov 5^[11]

Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly, Nov 2^[12]

• Parliamentary Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change – A first step, but a devastating missed opportunity, Extinction Rebellion, Nov 2^[13]

References

• Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point', Oct 23^[1]
• To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II, Oct 21^[2]
• What does Greta Thunberg's call for equity mean? Oct 3^[3]

If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Greta Thunberg, Sep 23^[4]

• Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks, Sep 22^[5]

For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth, George Monbiot, Sep 19^[6]

• Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says, Sep 16^[7]
• How much destruction is needed for us to take climate change seriously? Sep 3^[8]

References

• Embracing climate activism, Aug 27^[1]

Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs, Aug 22^[2]

• How Copenhagen plans to reach carbon-neutral status in just six years, Aug 20^[3]
• Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming, Aug 13^[4]

Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition', Aug 1^[5]

• Ethiopia 'breaks' tree-planting record to tackle climate change, Jul 29^[6]
• Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons, Jul 26^[7]
• Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries, Jul 14^[8]
• Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis – report, Jul 4^[9]
• Enough of the climate nightmare. It’s time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband, Jul 4^[10]

References

• Italy becomes first country to require climate change studies in schools, Jun 11^[1]
• Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050, Jun 11^[2]

Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis, May 22^[3]

• Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change, May 13^[4]
• UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency, Claire Mitchell, May 1^[5]
• Parents around the world mobilise behind youth climate strikes, Apr 3^[6]
• Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? Phil McDuff, Mar 18^[7]
• UK’s CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018, Mar 4^[8]

References

• Costa Rica unveils plan to achieve zero emissions by 2050 in climate change fight, Feb 25^[1]
• Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action, Feb 15^[2]
• How teenage girls defied skeptics to build a new climate movement, Feb 13^[3]
• UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis, Feb 8^[4]
• The children skipping school aren't ruining the planet – you are, Srećko Horvat, Feb 6^[5]
• Government still not tackling climate change? So sue them, Jan 12^[6]
• Britain has shifted 30% of its electricity away from fossil fuels in just nine years, Jan 10^[7]
• Climate change: 'Right to repair' gathers force, Jan 9^[8]

References

• Climate change talks lead to heightened pledge to cut emissions, Dec 12, 2018...The Guardian. EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C
• Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO, Dec 5, 2018...The Guardian.
• With a Green New Deal, here's what the world could look like for the next generation, Dec 5, 2018...theintercept.com.
• Bristol to Brooklyn, Paris to Pittsburgh: restless cities act themselves on climate crisis, Dec 1, 2018...The Alternative UK.

• Climate change: Australian students skip school for mass protest, Nov 30^[1]
• CO2 emissions rising for first time in four years, Nov 27^[2]
• Young people are about to utterly transform climate politics, in the UK and US, Nov 21^[3]

Communities lead governments on climate action, Nov 14^[4]

• My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat. Rob Hopkins, Nov 8^[5]

References

• South Bronx teens get creative about climate change, Oct 23^[1]

Fracking protesters walk free after court quashes 'excessive' sentences, Oct 17^[2]

• Top climate scientist blasts UK’s fracking plans as 'aping Trump’, Oct 13^[3]
• A City That Takes Climate Change Seriously: Paris, Oct 10^[4]
• Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling, Oct 9^[5]
• Final call to save the world from 'climate catastrophe', Oct 8^[6]
• The planet is burning - and you know it. How should you behave with family, friends, fellow citizens? Oct 1^[7]

References

• California Ups Its Clean Energy Game With 100% Zero-Carbon Electricity Vote, Aug 29^[1]
• Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals, Martin Lukacs, Jul 17^[2]
• Balearic Islands bank on their sun to kickstart power drive, Adam Vaughan, May 4^[3]

New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future', Apr 12^[4]

References

• The environmental case for keeping the clocks on summer time – all the time, Mar 28^[1]
• Helsinki unveils plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2035, Mar 21^[2]
• UK carbon emissions in 2017 fell to levels last seen in 1890, Mar 7^[3]

Cape Town’s water crisis shows the reality for cities on the front line of climate change, Mar 1^[4]

• Why the world is looking to the Philippines for climate justice, Feb 22^[5]
• Spain: Balearics launch pioneering plan to phase out emissions, Feb 15^[6]
• Talking climate, taking action – a quest for belonging, Feb 12^[7]

References