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A peek into the relatively sane climate debates outside the United States
Turns out denial isn't a pre-req for political life elsewhere.
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![Illustration picture of postal ballot papers June 1, 2016 ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain in the European Union.]()
![Illustration picture of postal ballot papers June 1, 2016 ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain in the European Union.]()
Britain might leave the European Union. Here’s what that could mean for the climate.
A climate hawk’s guide to the Brexit vote.
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![From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French President Francois Hollande react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015.]()
![From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French President Francois Hollande react during the final plenary session at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015.]()
France ratifies U.N. climate deal. Your move, rest of world.
It is the first major industrialized country to do so.
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Will Sanders supporters go over to the Green Party?
On climate, the Green Party may carry Bernie’s torch.
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House Republicans just voted against a nonexistent carbon tax
Next on the agenda: Santa Claus, unicorns, nuclear fusion.
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Bay Area voters approve a whole new kind of climate tax
The $12-a-year property tax will raise money for restoring coastal marshes and preparing for rising seas.
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Our rotten immigration policies have left us with a bunch of rotten food
Ramped-up border patrols have kept farmworkers away — which is a big problem for our agricultural system.
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How Bernie Sanders made Hillary Clinton into a greener candidate
Sanders lost the primary race, but he has changed the Democratic Party and the politics of climate change.
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Even if Sanders loses the primary, his fracking policy won California
Clinton and Sanders have been courting the state’s environmentalist vote.
