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“Our Leaders Are Behaving Like Children”: Teen Climate Act...
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, this week, where world leaders gathered to negotiate climate solutions were confronted last week by a teenage climate activist who says they are not doing enough to turn back the clock and prevent catastrophic climate change. Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg stunned the world last […]
Headlines for December 11, 2018
U.K.: Prime Minister May to Hold Emergency Talks with EU over Brexit France: President Macron Offers Concessions to Protesters in TV Address EPA Proposes Rollback of Water Protection Laws Youth Climate Activists Flood Congress, Demanding “Green New Deal” COP24: Activists Take Over Trump Administration’s Pro-Fossil Fuels Event The Intercept: Shell Oil Helped Draft Paris Agreement […]
“Shame on You!” Protesters Interrupt Trump Admin Promoting...
Just minutes before we began our Monday broadcast, Democracy Now! spoke to protesters at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, as they interrupted a Trump administration event promoting coal and other fossil fuels. We speak with Diné climate activist Leona Morgan.
As Polish Gov’t Promotes Coal, Advocate Warns Coal Hastens Clima...
This year’s U.N. climate summit is in Katowice, Poland, and the Polish government is using the summit to promote coal, with several state-owned Polish coal companies sponsoring parts of the talks. Democracy Now! visited the Guido coal mine near Katowice, which has been turned into a mining museum, to speak with Polish environmental lawyer Bartosz […]
Thousands Protest at U.N. Climate Summit in Coal-Heavy Poland, Facing ...
This week Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, where the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait have blocked language “welcoming” October’s landmark IPCC climate report that warned of the catastrophic effects of a global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius, beyond which global crises could unfold at a rapid […]
Marcy Wheeler: Mueller Probe Could Lead to Indictment of the Trump Org...
Federal prosecutors have accused President Trump of committing a federal crime by directing illegal hush money to two women during the presidential election. The accusation was revealed Friday in filings made public by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, including a damning sentencing memo for Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, […]