WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Starting today, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US will be hosting a Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit to virtually bring together activists from around the world. The grassroots leaders, representing more than 30 organizations from 17 countries, will convene today-Friday to discuss the climate issues in their communities and elevate their demands for the US Government and its institutions. Too often, grassroots leaders are left out of the climate conversation and do not have a seat at the table; the goal of this summit is to bring attention to the voices and asks of the global grassroots leaders who were not present during the April 22 Climate Summit.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Following President Biden’s Earth Day Climate Summit, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US will be hosting a Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit from June 2-4 to virtually bring together activists from around the world. The grassroots leaders, representing more than 30 organizations from 17 countries, will convene to discuss the climate issues in their communities and elevate their demands for the US Government and its institutions.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- On Earth Day 2021, government leaders are gathering for a virtual summit to discuss global strategies to combat the climate crisis. These are important discussions that must happen in order for us to meet our climate commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, but far too often, grassroots leaders--the true climate leaders-- are left out of these conversations. The Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth US will be hosting a Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit, for a series of virtual conversations that bring together activists from around the world. By bringing the discussion of negative impacts and failed promises of U.S.-supported fossil fuel projects overseas and benefits of projects like distributed renewables and just transitions to US leaders, together we can effectively push for change on the global level.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- This Thursday, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth US, Center for Financial Accountability, the Union of the Displaced People in Sasan, and more will host a webinar to discuss the US Export-Import Bank’s role in the massive coal ash flood from the Sasan coal-fired power plant and mine last spring that killed six people, including three children. Last April’s coal ash flash flood destroyed six miles of crops and homes, polluted downstream rivers and fields, and impacted hundreds of people in three nearby villages, namely Haraahawa, Siddi Khurd and Siddi Kala in Madhya Pradesh. The breach was reportedly due to the negligence of the plant and just $70 USD compensation has been promised to the villagers. You can watch a video of the flood and statements about the situation over the past year here.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS -- This inaugural conversation will bring together African and Black Diaspora from across the United States with activists in Kenya to have a discussion about the various ways in which individuals from the African Diaspora overcome the challenges and impacts of the climate crisis.
MONACO -- Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC). The report, which comes just after a devastating report last fall from the IPCC on the urgency to act on the climate crisis, found sea level rise and melting ice caused by the climate crisis will be even more dire than originally predicted.
Donald Trump skipped the G-7 climate session with other world leaders where they discussed climate solutions and the Amazon rainforest fires, claiming he had scheduled bilateral meetings with Germany and India at that time. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the climate session.
Yesterday, leaked documents revealed that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been actively working to undermine conservation efforts and uproot indigenous communities that live in the rainforest in order to profit business allies. His anti-environment policies have led to an unprecedented increase in illegal logging and rainforest destruction.
BOULDER, COLORADO – The Sierra Club and Nature Needs Half, an international coalition formed in 2009 to advance the protection of 50% of Earth’s land and seas, proudly announce a new partnership to help halt the Sixth Extinction and provide a feasible and affordable solution to the climate crisis.
Washington, D.C. -- Earlier today, the Supreme Court of India was set to hear petitions in response to their February 13 order directing state governments to evict over one million Adivasis Indigenous and forest dwelling people from forests in 17 states.
For the third year in a row, the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide dropped steeply in 2018, according to a new report released today by Global Energy Monitor, Greenpeace India, and the Sierra Club.