From the frontlines of climate change resistance

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26 November 2018

https://newint.org/features/2018/11/26/frontlines-climate-change-resistance

Hoda Baraka on the climate action movements working to end fossil fuel extraction.

People protest against President Donald Trump’s executive order fast-tracking the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

The planet is only 1°C warmer than pre-industrial times, yet we are already witnessing a chain of catastrophic climate-related extremes all over the globe.

If we want to avoid even more dramatic impacts, we have to stay under a 1.5°C increase in global mean temperatures. This is according to the latest special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN-backed climate science body. Meeting the 1.5°C threshold will inevitably require a very rapid and immediate phase-out of fossil fuels: we need to bring greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2050 and cut them in half by 2030.

This goal is incompatible with…

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