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Jet-Powered Hypocrisy: Richest 1% of Global Elites Emit as Much Carbon as Bottom Two-Thirds

Private jets. Private yachts. Multiple holidays a year. Garages full of luxury vehicles. Investments driving – and profiting from – fossil fuel industries. These are just some of the factors that combine to see global elites, who comprise one percent of the planet’s population, emit the same amount of carbon as the world’s poorest two-thirds, or five billion people, an analysis published Sunday by the nonprofit Oxfam International details.

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Report: John Kerry Admits China Climate Trip Is a Failure

U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry concluded his flying three-day trip to Beijing on Wednesday with his reported admission no agreement with China, the world’s single largest producer of greenhouse gases, has been reached on further actions to slash carbon pollution.

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 18: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang (not pictured) in the Great Hall of the People on July 18, 2023 in Beijing, China. Kerry is in Beijing to restart climate negotiations between the world's two biggest polluters, which together account for …

World Meteorological Organization Warns Climate Eve of Destruction Is Here

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a warning of almost Biblical proportions Sunday, noting a planet wracked by “climate change trends” that continued through 2022, driving food insecurity and mass migration along with a host of other maladies for mankind from droughts and floods to famine and heatwaves.

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Kerry: Climate Is the Most Important Issue with China

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry argued that while there are many serious issues between the United States and China, “we have a clock that’s ticking on climate more immediately. And we

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