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Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
COP29 Summit Marked by Acrimonious Debate Over Emissions and Finance
27 Nov 2024
Annual climate gathering reflects divisions between the industrialized states and the Global South.
Keston K Perry
The IMF and the World Bank Must be Abolished to Save the Planet
27 Nov 2024
The IMF and the World Bank give the appearance of aiding Global South nations with economic relief for climate disasters, but in reality, they are burdening them with more debt.
Anthony Rogers-Wright
Environmentally, There’s Not Enough Daylight Between Democratic Party Policies and Project 2025 to Fuel a Solar Panel
21 Aug 2024
Election season has sparked a frenzy of hysteria around Project 2025 and people are leaning on the Democratic party to stand as an oppositional force. However, just as with many other policies, the…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
If You Want to See White “Supremacy” at Work, Don’t go to a Trump Rally, Observe the Democrats’ Approach to Climate Change
29 May 2024
Despite the undeserved loyalty of Black people to the Democratic Party, lawmakers continue to push policy that ignores concerns about climate change and environmental damage in their communities.
Melissa Garriga
Don’t Let Warmongers Greenwash their Ecocide this Earth Day
24 Apr 2024
The destruction of the environment and acceleration of the climate crisis happen silently under the veil of “national security,” despite the fact that the environmental toll of war is the most…
Zach Frye
No Green For Go: How Settler-Colonialism Kills More Than Just People
27 Mar 2024
Settler colonialism has caused the destruction of indigenous lands around the world and, as a result, the environment in which we all live. The path forward is an global struggle against these forces.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Climate Profiteers Exploit Somali Suffering
20 Dec 2023
NGOs and other climate profiteers treat Somalia as a poster child for global warming.
Abayomi Azikiwe
COP28 Summit Concludes with Contradictory Agreement
20 Dec 2023
Although the final document calls for “transitioning” from fossil fuels, many developing states and territories wanted stronger language and economic commitments.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Africa Confronts the Food, Fertilizer, and Climate Crisis
09 Nov 2022
Food production in Africa is complicated by climate change and the use of fertilizers which increase food production but which also create green house gases and create other environmental harm.
Anthony Rogers-Wright
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is Less a “Climate Bill” and More a Poison Pill for Black and Indigenous Communities and Movements
24 Aug 2022
Among other problematic issues, the so-called climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act allow for more oil drilling on federal lands. Greenwashing and Democratic party duplicity are nothing…