The World Bank promotes expansion of private land ownership and title to improve efficient land use and recently announced billions of dollars to support these policies, claiming it will also facilitate carbon projects including offsets and afforestation. But analysis by the Oakland Institute (OI) argues those investments overwhelmingly benefit big business at the expense of local and Indigenous communities
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World Bank uses climate crisis as cover for land-grabbing, Oakland Institute says
A new report by the Oakland Institute accuses the World Bank of using the climate crisis as a pretext for promoting land privatization that favors ...
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LETTER: Canada not doing enough to address climate change, breaking promises Canada is slow to act on addressing the climate crisis, writes Everett Hobbs, just one of broken government promises
LETTER: Canada not doing enough to cut greenhouse gases | PNI Atlantic News
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Since the beginning, environmental activists have opposed the felling of thousands of trees and the irreversible damage to the sensitive forest and environment caused by the implementation of both projects on the Mahadayi River. They also allege a conspiracy by industrial players to take away the Mahadayi water in the name of farmers
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Climate activist Ridhima Pandey joins protest against Kalasa-Banduri project | Hubballi News - Times of India
Belagavi: Internationally acclaimed climate activist Ridhima Pandey has joined the fight against the Kalasa-Banduri water diversion project. She wi...
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The U.S. state’s idea to be a greener – meaning more environmentally friendly – is to combine the sun and the water. How is this possible if we previously said the sun evaporates the water? They have come up with the solution of covering irrigation channels with solar panels, which transform this light coming from the sun into electricity
Confirmed - U.S. state to cover its rivers to combat drought and slow climate change
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Climate activists arrested at Lisbon airport Four climate activists were arrested for disobedience when they tried to block an access road to Lisbon airport, the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the PSP (Cometlis) told Lusa
Climate activists arrested at Lisbon airport
Four climate activists were arrested for disobedience when they tried to block an access road to Lisbon airport, the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of...
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The timeline just keeps getting tighter. Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years ago, the IPCC authors shifted the projection to the mid-2030s. Now, we’re on the doorstep https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/02/opinion/burning-through-guardrails #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Rally in Saskatoon calling for a Canada-wide renewable energy grid Local climate justice advocates have organized The “Powerlines Not Pipelines” rally calling for urgent investment in a national clean energy corridor-not more pipelines
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Rally in Saskatoon calling for a Canada-wide renewable energy grid
Local climate justice advocates have organized The "Powerlines Not Pipelines" rally calling for urgent investm...
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Extinction Rebellion protests NOS coverage of climate, Gaza conflict in Hilversum Dozens of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists demonstrated outside the NOS building at Media Park in Hilversum, Saturday, expressing dissatisfaction with the Dutch public broadcaster’s reporting on the climate crisis and the war in Gaza, NOS reported.
NL Times
Extinction Rebellion protests NOS coverage of climate, Gaza conflict in Hilversum
Dozens of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists demonstrated outside the NOS building at Media Park in Hilversum, Saturday, expressing dissatisfactio...
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Glaciers Melting Faster as Black Carbon Heats Himalayas by 4°C in 2 Decades: Study Black Carbon has raised Himalayan snow surface temperatures by over 4°C in two decades, accelerating glacier melt. Experts urge urgent cuts in emissions from the Indo-Gangetic Plain to protect water security for two billion people
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Glaciers Melting Faster as Black Carbon Heats Himalayas by 4°C in 2 Decades: Study
Black Carbon has raised Himalayan snow surface temperatures by over 4°C in two decades, accelerating glacier melt. Experts urge urgent cuts in emi...
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Americans’ Views on How to Address the Impacts of Extreme Weather Most who have experienced extreme weather in the last year see a link to climate change
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Americans’ Views on How to Address the Impacts of Extreme Weather
At least eight-in-ten Americans who experienced extreme weather say climate change contributed a lot or a little.
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