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News Articles: Climate change activism

President of the European Court of Human Rights Síofra O'Leary, center, speaks Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France.

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  • Climate

European court rules on cases seeking to force countries to meet climate goals

Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
Climate activists protest on the first day of the ExxonMobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on 2019. Last month, prosecutors described how ExxonMobil tried to take advantage of material stolen by hackers working for Aviram Azari.

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  • Climate

Private detective who led a hacking attack against climate activists gets prison time

Aviram Azari was sentenced to almost seven years in prison on Thursday. Azari directed a group of hackers that targeted thousands of victims globally, including U.S. climate activists.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Michael Copley and
  • Jeff Brady
People rally to end fossil fuels in New York Sunday ahead of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and Climate Ambition Summit.

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  • Politics

Young people think climate change is a top issue but when they vote, it's complicated

Climate change is a major issue for young voters, but so far, it has not been a major mobilizing force in U.S. elections. Some environmental action groups see that changing.

September 18, 2023
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Bob Schroeder, an organizer with 350Juneau, sawed credit card replicas in half outside a Wells Fargo branch in Juneau, Alaska.

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  • Climate

Climate activists target nation's big banks, urging divestment from fossil fuels

Across the U.S. on Tuesday, people gathered outside major banks demanding that financial institutions shift away from investing in fossil fuel projects.

March 22, 2023
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By:
  • Michael Copley and
  • Paula Moura
A picture of the tree canopy at the Fernbank Museum's 65-acre forest.

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  • Environment

Georgia has many trees, but few old-growth forests. And advocates say they need to be protected

Old-growth forest can do things younger tree stands cannot, ecologists say. Older forests may sequester more carbon and harbor increased biodiversity. Now, the people who love these rare, complex ecosystems say they need protection.

 

April 26, 2022
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By:
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes
Activists protesting "greenwashing," in which a company or government appears to do more for the environment than it is, gather outside the JP Morgan premises near the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit.

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  • Climate

Carbon trading gets a green light from the U.N., and Brazil hopes to earn billions

Carbon offsets got a big boost from November's U.N. climate summit. New rules could make it easier for companies to pay for carbon-cutting projects in other countries, rather than doing it themselves.

December 06, 2021
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By:
  • Dan Charles
Brianna Fruean, a Samoan member of the Pacific Climate Warriors, speaks at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday.

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  • Climate

For Brianna Fruean, the smell of mud drives home the need for climate action

Many island nations have the most to lose when it comes to the climate crisis. But at the COP26 U.N. climate summit, they insist they aren't victims, they're warriors.

November 11, 2021
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Mia Venkat,
  • and 2 more
Vanessa Nakate speaks during the climate strike march on October 1, 2021 in Milan, Italy.

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  • Climate

Uganda's Vanessa Nakate says COP26 sidelines nations most affected by climate change

Nakate spoke with NPR about the role gender plays in climate activism, whether the COP26 summit feels inclusive and her advice for other youth who feel they can't affect change in the climate crisis.

November 10, 2021
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 2 more
Climate activists march in Sydney during a COP26 protest on Saturday that was one of several demonstrations held around the world.

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  • Climate

Thousands protest in Glasgow and around the world for action against climate change

With one week of the COP26 conference left, people worldwide participated in protests in support of climate change action. Activists say that pledges to cut carbon emissions don't go far enough.

November 06, 2021
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By:
  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye speaks at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in 2019. She and a group of Ugandan activists are calling on high-income countries to commit to bigger and faster emission cuts ahead of COP26, the climate change summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, this week.

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  • Environment

A climate change disaster led this shy 24-year-old from Uganda into activism

When Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was a girl, a severe storm flooded her family's farm. Now she realizes that climate change was a factor — and she's become an advocate for change.

November 02, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Flames from the Windy Fire burn up a giant tree this month in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest in California. Children in younger generations will experience two to seven times more extreme climate events such as wildfires, a new study says.

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  • Climate

Children Born In 2020 Will Experience Up To 7 Times More Extreme Climate Events

A new study says the current climate crisis is a "severe threat" to the safety of younger generations, who will experience far more extreme climate events such as heat waves, wildfires and floods.

September 28, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Climate activists in Quezon City, Philippines, light candles and hold LED-illuminated banners in December of last year to commemorates five years since the Paris Agreement and to call for an end to the killing of environmental defenders.

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  • Environment

It Was The Deadliest Year Ever For Land And Environmental Activists

Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.

September 13, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Activists advocate for better climate protection at a demonstration last month in Stuttgart, Germany.

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  • Europe

German Court Orders Revisions To Climate Law, Citing 'Major Burdens' On Youth

Germany's top court rejected some of the activists' arguments but agreed that the country's climate act violates their fundamental rights by not specifying emissions reduction targets after 2030.

April 29, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Edgar McGregor, with some of the debris he's collected from Eaton Canyon, part of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California.

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  • National

Climate Activist Spends 589 Days And Counting Picking Up Litter In Calif. Park

Edgar McGregor, 20, says he has been cleaning up trash in Eaton Canyon every day for more than a year and a half. He declared it finally free of municipal waste on Friday, but says his work continues.

March 08, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman

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