Have COPs Outlived Their Usefulness?
Gehad Hamdy/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Diplomats, academics, and activists from around the globe will gather yet again this week to try to find common ground on a plan for combating climate change. This year’s COP, as the event is known, marks the…
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm UN Treaty Talks on Plastics Pollution
Workers sort used plastic bottles at a recycling factory in Dhaka, BangladeshJoy Saha/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fossil fuel and chemical company interests are out in force at the United Nations meeting in Nairobi, where delegates from about 170 countries are negotiating the…
Senior US Official Appears to Endorse Collective Punishment of Gazans
Brett McGurk in 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a summit in Bahrain on Saturday, a US official stated that far more humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza if Hamas released the hostages it is holding. In doing so,…
“Carbon Bomb” Financiers Threaten World’s Ability to Curb Warming
Richard B. Levine/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Banks pumped more than $150 billion last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal. The carbon bombs—425 extraction projects…
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
Residents of a Central Romana batey in 2021.Pedro Farais-Nardi Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel…
“Attacking Health Workers Is a War Crime”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1996, when Leonard Rubenstein became the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, the war in the former Yugoslavia had just ended. PHR, a US-based advocacy group, prepared a report on the brutal attacks on Kosovo Hospital in…