“No, under no circumstances” — With his comments to Congress, the climate envoy signaled that Washington has no plans to start providing its fair share when it comes to the emerging loss and damage fund.
A new World Bank report says hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies to energy producers need to be used instead to “ensure a green and just transition.”
A report detailing dire consequences for Indigenous people in an Ecuador province comes amid a push on new World Bank President Ajay Banga to end asupport for destructive, high-emitting livestock operations.
Several AI boosters signed this week’s “mitigation extinction risks” statement, raising the possibility that insiders with billions of dollars at stake are attempting to showcase their capacity for self-regulation.
An environmental watchdog says the administration’s plan to cut water allotments ignores the overexploitation of water by corporate agriculture and fossil fuel industries.
“There’s a class war going on whether we want to recognize it or not,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said at the conclusion of Wednesday’s combative hearing on the right of workers to organize unions.
Despite widespread opposition to raising the retirement age, many French lawmakers remain determined to fulfill the president’s election pledge to overhaul the nation’s pension system, Kenny Stancil reports.
In the face of climate catastrophe and a rising risk of nuclear war, Greece’s former finance minister says the global ruling class are “doing their best to push humanity over both cliffs at once.”
This escalation of U.S. hostility comes just days after the Biden administration released a Nuclear Posture Review that nonproliferation advocates said makes catastrophe more, rather than less, likely.
Many workers remain unsatisfied with the compromise proposed last month by the U.S. president’s appointed arbitrators.