Climate Emergency & Sustainability: in-depth from Science for Peace
The climate emergency is, alongside nuclear war, the gravest threat to human survival. This pillar covers our Just Transition analysis, COP-26 critique, military emissions, and the Climate Crisis Series. Authors include scientists, economists, and Canadian policy analysts tracking the link between militarism, fossil fuels and climate breakdown.
Articles, resolutions and reports — Climate Emergency & Sustainability
- The Climate Crisis Series — February 2022. Climate scientist Danny Harvey provides the answer. A dynamic U of T Professor of Geography, he has written two textbooks on climate science, three books…
- STRATEGIC VISION FOR THE DECISIVE DECADE AND BEYOND — November 2021. The goal of a peaceful world ultimately depends on building global cooperation and achieving human security for all, within the regenerative limits of…
- COP26 Dangerous Omissions: Amplifying Feedbacks, Human Fatalities — November 2021. Thirty-three years ago climate scientist James Hansen and other climate scientists testified to a U.S. Congressional Committee and to a Senate Panel.…
- Science for Peace in the Decisive Decade — October 2021. Today we face at least three overlapping, existential crises: militarism, the climate crisis and the collapse of biodiversity. While interrelated in many…
- 10 Essential Facts about the Climate Crisis — August 2021. 1. Greenhouse Gases. The atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2020, worldwide, was almost 50% above the pre-industrial concentration (412 ppmv vs 280 ppmv, a…
- Climate Emergency: Getting Out Alive — July 2021. Jim Morrison observed that you don’t get outta here alive. Though Morrison had a point, Kim Stanley Robinson sketches an optimistic scenario in which we…
- The Politics of a Just Transition to a Green Economy, 2020-2050 — October 2020. A Talk to Extinction Rebellion by Professor Richard Sandbrook In February 2020.
- Making the Impossible Possible: Coalitional Movement Politics in the Decisive Decade — October 2020. This is the decisive decade for humankind and other species. We tackle dire trends now. Or we face a bleak future in which our constricted pandemic life…
- Resolving the Climate Emergency — March 2020. Science for Peace urges immediate and emergency action on the terrifying warming of our planet, now proceeding at a rate hitherto unimaginable. We are…
- COP-Out: The Military and Climate Change/Justice — January 2020. The world situation is much worse than generally acknowledged. This December, the coinciding meetings of NATO and of the climate change Conference of the…
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