EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - Special COP25 Issue - December 12, 2019
Emerald
COP25: conference of parties, for the last 25 years
Greta Thunberg at Madrid March: Hope in the Streets,
Not the U.N. Climate Summit (video)
Protesters heap pressure on Madrid climate talks
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50694361“Shame!” Indigenous Leaders & Delegates from Global South Stage Dramatic Protest at COP25 in Madrid (video) https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/11/cop25_walkout_indigenous_leaders_global_south?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=7e8d2d1ad1-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-7e8d2d1ad1-191276697
“It’s Our Future”: Meet the
Youth Activists Behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda and Chile (video)
TIME 2019 Person of the Year - Greta Thunberg
COP25: Alternative Climate Summit Honors Those “Suffering the Crimes of Transnational Corporations” (video)
Greta Thunberg in exclusive interview: ”The hope lies in the fact that people don’t know what is going on”
Indigenous Leader Sônia Guajajara: The Amazon Is Burning & Its Defenders Are Being Assassinated (video)
Green Groups at COP 25 Warn Against Market-Driven
Solutions to Climate Emergency
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/02/green-groups-cop-25-warn-against-market-driven-solutions-climate-emergency?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
Greta Thunberg, Rose Whipple
& Eriel Deranger on Listening to Indigenous People Amid Climate Crisis (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/greta_thunberg_rose_whipple_on_listening?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=65317ddef1-Daily_Digest_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-65317ddef1-191276697
Zero-hour on climate, but UN talks in another time
zone
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-zero-hour-climate-zone.html
At Major March in Madrid, Indigenous & Youth
Activists Slam Global Leaders for Climate Inaction
(video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/madrid_climate_march_cop25?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=65317ddef1-Daily_Digest_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-65317ddef1-191276697
Amazonian Forest Protectors Rally Outside COP25
Amid Death of Two Indigenous Chiefs (video)
Indigenous Youth & Elders
at COP25 Protest Canada’s Support of Dirty Tar Sands Projects (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/10/eriel_deranger_canada_tar_sands?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=030d182bd3-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-030d182bd3-191276697
Protesters Call for Climate Justice at the Peoples’
Summit in Chile
https://truthout.org/articles/protesters-call-for-climate-justice-at-the-peoples-summit-in-chile/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d6aba2ca-1ec1-4a4f-bf23-6bef28bd5f46
“Listen to Mother Earth”: Indigenous Youth Leaders at COP25 in Madrid Protest Fossil Fuel Extraction (video)
UN: Climate Change Will Create “New Great Divergence”
Between Rich and Poor
https://truthout.org/articles/un-climate-change-will-create-new-great-divergence-between-rich-and-poor/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d6aba2ca-1ec1-4a4f-bf23-6bef28bd5f46
Spanish Actor Javier Bardem:
We Need Urgency, Ambition & Reduction to Confront Climate Crisis (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/spanish_actor_javier_bardem_at_cop25?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=65317ddef1-Daily_Digest_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-65317ddef1-191276697
Police Halt Activist-Led “Toxic Tour” of Spain’s
“Dirtiest” Corporate Polluters Sponsoring COP25 (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/toxic_tour_of_spains_dirtiest_corporate?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=65317ddef1-Daily_Digest_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-65317ddef1-191276697
Meet the Climbing Kids: 8- & 11-Year-Old Siblings
Who Rappel from Bridge Demanding Climate Action (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/meet_the_climbing_kids_8_11?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=65317ddef1-Daily_Digest_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-65317ddef1-191276697
Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron & BP Could Be Legally
& Morally Liable for Climate Crisis in Philippines
(video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/9/shell_exxonmobil_chevron_bp_could_be?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=65317ddef1-Daily_Digest_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-65317ddef1-191276697
Eriel Deranger on the Negative Impact of Resource Extraction on Indigenous Communities in Canada (video)