Climate Chaos Amidst the Pandemic: 5 Years After Paris

[link removed]
Weekly Column Thursday, December 17, 2020


** Climate Chaos Amidst the Pandemic: 5 Years After Paris
------------------------------------------------------------

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed, defining the entirely voluntary, unenforceable plan to avert global climate chaos. “We are still not going in the right direction,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said this week, addressing a forum marking the anniversary, held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Paris promised to limit temperature rise to as close as to 1.5 degrees [Celsius] as possible,” he continued, “but the commitments made in Paris were far from enough to get there, and even those commitments are not being met…I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a state of climate emergency.”

World leaders, though, are primarily focused on a different state of emergency. With over 1.6 million people worldwide dead from COVID-19 and over 74 million cases reported, the suffering and economic devastation that the pandemic has caused, disproportionately to poor people and people of color, is inestimable. With President Donald Trump still at the helm, largely ignoring the crisis, the United States is faring worse than any other nation, with more than 300,000 deaths so far. Daily deaths are now topping 3,600, shattering global records. The CDC is projecting 83,000 Americans will die of COVID-19 in the next 3 weeks.

Both catastrophes of the pandemic and the climate need to be dealt with immediately. A coalition of over 380 groups under the banner “Build Back Fossil Free” is demanding urgent, action from...Read More→ ([link removed])
Listen Now ([link removed])
Download Audio ⤓ ([link removed])


** Related
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]

Greta Thunberg: 5 Years After Paris Agreement, World Is “Speeding in the Wrong Direction” on Climate ([link removed])
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who launched the global Fridays for Future youth climate movement...Read More → ([link removed])

NON-COMMERCIAL NEWS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
DONATE TODAY ([link removed])
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]

============================================================
This work is licensed under a ** Creative Commons License ([link removed])

Democracy Now!
207 West 25th St
11th Floor
New York, New York 10001
USA
You are receiving this email because you signed up at democracynow.org.
** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
** update subscription preferences ([link removed])