Climate Equity
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Report: Poor countries need 5 to 10 times more funding to adapt to climate risks they did not create
Without it, there will be even worse "loss and damage" costs down the line.
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![Rose Auger, a Cree spiritual elder, opened the summit asking for spiritual union to all participants. With her, left to right: Benjamin Chavis, Jr., Gail Small, Toney Anaya, Syngman Rhee.]()
![Rose Auger, a Cree spiritual elder, opened the summit asking for spiritual union to all participants. With her, left to right: Benjamin Chavis, Jr., Gail Small, Toney Anaya, Syngman Rhee.]()
The event that changed the environmental justice movement forever
Thirty years later, organizers reflect on the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.
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Study: Indigenous tribes lost 99% of land to colonization
Settlers pushed tribes into land more at risk from climate change
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![Daranda Hinkey, a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribe, stands in a field of sage brush]()
![Daranda Hinkey, a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribe, stands in a field of sage brush]()
Native opposition to Nevada lithium mine grows
"Annihilating old growth sagebrush, Indigenous peoples’ medicines, food, and ceremonial grounds for electric vehicles isn’t very climate conscious."
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Why developing countries say net-zero is ‘against climate justice’
Without faster decarbonization and more funding, rich nations risk losing the developing world’s trust.
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![Migrants, most from Haiti, trek through the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama, on their journey towards the United States]()
![Migrants, most from Haiti, trek through the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama, on their journey towards the United States]()
‘Disappointing’: The US’s first climate migration report falls flat
“We went from a bold call and vision to, well, nothing.”
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EPA finally has an action plan to improve water infrastructure and sanitation for US tribes
Indigenous leaders push for increased tribal consultation and funding
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A California law gave the people power to cut pollution. Why isn’t it working?
AB 617 has created a long-winded, bureaucratic process but resulted in little regulation — a design flaw that may be intentional.
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![A man and child ride on a bike in Chicago.]()
![A man and child ride on a bike in Chicago.]()
In Chicago, cyclists in Black neighborhoods are over-policed and under-protected
A simple solution for transportation equity: bike lanes.
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‘Mobility Justice’: How cities are rethinking public transportation after COVID
During the pandemic, commuter trains ran nearly empty while buses shuttled essential workers. Now, cities are reevaluating where they spent their transit dollars.
