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Climate Change Policy
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results52 Connexions Library2 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 4 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 3 Sources Library Connexions LibraryAcademics Urge Government Climate Action: Sources News Release Article 2009 More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter poi... Canada After Harper: His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want Finn, Ed (editor) Book 2015 Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, w... Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling Monbiot, George Article 2009 Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, dive... The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis Annis, Roger Article 2015 The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial. Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival Brecher, Jeremy Book 2015 Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitu... Climate Jobs for All: Building Block for the Green New Deal Brecher, Jeremy Article 2018 A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular ... "Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement: Against The Current vol. 141 Davenport, Nick Article 2009 The climate crisis -- a crisis not of civilization, as some commentators would have it, but of capitalist production -- requires a political response that is long overdue, and is finally stirring. Now... Climate Justice Transitions McLaren, Jesse Article 2016 The devastating fires in Fort McMurray show the urgent need to transition to an economy that supports people and the planet, and this is part of a transition in climate justice politics. Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism  Muhammad, Umair Book 2014 Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists. Connexions Digest: Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1991 Connexions Digest: Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1992 COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent' Tokar, Brian Article 2015 The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - ... A Death Sentence For Africa: The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables Article 2011 Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a glo... Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Against The Current vol. 125 McGough, John Article 2006 Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, ... EnvironmentSources.com Website 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and importa... Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement Foran, John Article 2016 An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement. Fantasy technology won't stop climate change Angus, Ian Article 2015 Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go. A Fossil Fuel Exit Program Ekeland, Anders Article 2014 A complete transition away from fossil fuels is necessary within a few decades. The question is how to construct an exit strategy that will accomplish this. James Hansen has provided a starting point ... A Fossil Fuel Exit Program Ekeland, Anders Article 2014 Ekeland analyzes climate activist Hansen's climate change exit strategy and why it has not been supported or pursued by political and environmental groups. The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction Angus, Ian (ed.) Book 2009 A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming. Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning Monbiot, George Book 2006 Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of th... The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription Gelbspan, Ross Book 1997 A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change. Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning Garcia, Elena Article 2018 All of NSW has now officially been declared to be in drought, and 57% of Queensland has officially entered its sixth year of the current drought (though there has been little real change from when 88%... The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines Mann, Michael E. Book 2012 Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implie... How Much Does Climate Change Change? Cox, Janice; Gasser, Michael Article 2015 A review Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything. How the People's Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign Gupta, Arun Article 2014 I've never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source.... The Inquisition of Climate Science Powell, James Lawrence Book 2011 The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive indu... The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution Tanuro, Daniel Article 2014 Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster. It makes economic sense to kill people: Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth Monbiot, George Article 2008 A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in... Keep it in the Ground Article 2015 A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9: Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project Article 2015 A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to ... Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. Book 2010 Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given the... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015: Elections Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about ch... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015: Climate Change and Social Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016: Working class organizing Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. I... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016: Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016: Workers and Climate Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about th... Paris Climate Agreement Threatened by Trade Deals Nelson, Joyce Article 2015 Pope Francis' visit to the U.S. has galvanized discussion about climate change and raised hopes for the upcoming December COP21 Paris climate change talks. Those talks are intended to lead to a multil... Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us? Doebbler, Curtis FJ Article 2015 On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions... Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support Mann, Eric Article 2015 In December 2015 the world's governments meet in Paris for a truly historic event -- the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the conference is to protect Mot... Socialist Register 2012: Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left Panitch, Leo; Albo, Gregory; Chibber, Vivek (eds.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2012 The specter of geoengineering haunts the Paris climate agreement Tanuro, Daniel Article 2016 in a capitalist framework negative emissions technologies appear to offer the only possible way out. Geoengineering is the specter that haunts the text adopted in Paris and gives it meaning. The fact ... Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent Nikiforuk, Andrew Book 2010 To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and underminin... This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate Klein, Naomi Book 2014 Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically bette... This Is About Us Monbiot, George Article 2009 The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity. This is What Insurgency Looks Like Brecher, Jeremy Article 2016 The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of governm... What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him? Article 2015 The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. ... What's at stake in Copenhagen: The crucial debates at Copenhagen Gilbertson, Tamra; Reyes, Oscar Article 2009 Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoli... Who Speaks for the Climate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change Boykoff, Maxwell T. Book 2011 This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Pro... Why are our environmental groups supporting weak climate targets? Fillmore, Nick Article 2016 The federal government's recently announced that all Canadian jurisdictions must adopt a carbon pricing scheme by 2018 with a minimum price of $10 per tonne. The price must rise to reach $50 per tonne... Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven! Bryan, Kim Article 2009 With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round. The Workers' Climate Plan & The Federal Climate Consultations Article 2016 The Government of Canada is leading a process to create a National Climate Strategy, a result of signing the Paris Agreement to limit increasing global temperatures. Over the next 3 months, political ... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesCanadian Voice of Women for Peace Established in 1960, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nation... Ontario Clean Air Alliance The Ontario Clean Air Alliance is a coalition of over 90 organizations that represent more than six million Ontarians. We led the successful campaign to phase-out Ontario's five dirty coal-fired pow... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryBehind the Numbers A blog from the CCPA Commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, and employment. Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9 Sources News Release 2015 More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the rece... An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails Sources News Release 2009 As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the... |
