Thousands of people marched in central Warsaw today, under the banner of «System change, not climate change», with a strong call from Friends of the Earth Europe to move the climate talks towards an equitable, ambitious and people -
centred solution to the climate crisis.
In those discussions, one thing has become abundantly clear: when you connect the dots, it turns out that the
real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever - rising energy prices.
We hope you can join us for our Climate Solutions 9th Annual Dinner, Convergence: Accelerating clean energy
solutions to the climate crisis on Tuesday, November 14, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm (5 pm - 6 pm check - in and networking hour, program starts at 6:10 pm) at the Hilton Portland with keynote speaker Kate Gordon, Founding Director, Risky Business Project.
While we've trained over 13,000 activists in 140 countries, we need your help to continue growing our Climate Reality Leadership Corps and other programs that promote
practical solutions to the climate crisis.
A carbon fee - and - rebate policy provides an
equitable solution to the climate crisis, and it would work to drive the decarbonization that Chairperson Mendelson and Councilmember Cheh clearly seek — but only if the DC Council passes it first.
But while Smith has repeatedly voted against renewable energy tax credits and pushed to do away with loan guarantee programs that help bring new energy technologies into the world, he does seem to have a soft spot for speculative, high
tech solutions to a climate crisis he rarely acknowledges.
As we move forward, I will continue to
seek solutions to the climate crisis that promote and facilitate responsible wind and renewable energy growth while employing proper safeguards to ensure wildlife - friendly development consistent with our country's conservation goals and commitment to our natural heritage.
The extreme weather that has battered much of the planet in the past few years, up through the heat wave cooking most of the United States this summer, has more scientists thinking about
extreme solutions to the climate crisis.
The Washington and Oregon legislatures are considering a number of important clean energy and climate policies, including proposals that would levy a charge on fossil fuel suppliers to fund investments
in solutions to the climate crisis.
Throughout 2015 and beyond people from around the globe and Friends of the Earth groups will keep the pressure on national governments to take urgent and appropriate action in line with what science and justice demand, as well as implementing their
own solutions to the climate crisis.
If Europe learns from the biofuels lesson, it will stop promoting
false solutions to the climate crisis that at the end present more environmental damage and degradation than relief for the planet.
«So what we're saying is that
lasting solutions to the climate crisis that we're seeing and to the economic crisis... lasting solutions are our only hope for building a humane economic system because we need to close deep inequalities and we need to generate plentiful work,» Rozum said.
Founded by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore, The Climate Reality Project is working to catalyze a
global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.
In fact,
the solutions to the climate crisis are the very same solutions that will address our economic and national security crises as well.