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Readying a Stronger Approach for the New Year

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are readying our new petition to compel the United States to undertake an orderly phaseout of fossil fuels within reach of existing US law. This…

A Petrostate-Captured COP

In my last post, here, I raised what I considered a singularly-critical question arising from the recently-concluded COP28: Why did the recently-concluded 28th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC…

Was it the ‘Beginning of the End’? COP28 & the Aspirational Fossil Fuel Phase Out

I fervently hoped to be proven wrong. In a blog post on Nov. 30, two days before my arrival in Dubai, I had predicted that the 28th Conference of the…

New and Young Voters: Do not Sit It Out

I direct myself to new and young eligible voters in the United States, though I speak today from Dubai—a city-state that is suffused right now with a toxic brew of…

3rd CPR Initiative Hearing on Climate Action

CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Santa Barbara, California on January 25, 2024. Co-hosted by the Community Environmental Council.

Breathless in Dubai

The relevant authorities here declared yesterday to be “COP28 Health Day.” An explanation is warranted. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC, or “Framework Convention”) was produced at the…

A Debacle Brewing in Dubai

We are sleepwalking towards catastrophe no longer. . . . Instead, we are now sprinting toward it, eyes wide open.

Time to “sit up and take notice”

James Hansen warns of global warming in the pipeline The renowned climate scientist James E. Hansen, along with a slew of colleagues, have gone and done it again. Publication yesterday…

Watch the Recording: CPR Initiative’s Second Public Hearing on Climate Action

Held on September 29, 2023 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Co-hosted by CPR Initiative, the Environmental Law Program at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law, and the Sierra Club of Hawai’i.