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A demonstrator outside the Australian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Photo: Reuters  

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Record blazes: Australia’s devastating fires are set to keep burning into
the coming weeks and months, despite some relief from lower temperatures
this week. Over 10 million hectares have now burned. One climate scientist
[ [link removed] ]lamented, “It’s likely the forests won’t be coming back as we know
them.”

Outrage continues over politicians’ failure to address the root causes of
this climate disaster as they cling to coal. Reports show the Australian
government [ [link removed] ]buried response plans and even under-resourced firefighters
in the months prior. This on top of years of climate inaction and ongoing
commitments to expand the fossil fuel industry.

On Friday, January 11, 10,000 people joined a rally outside Sydney’s town
hall in response to the fires. Photo: Mohammad Farooq/AFP via Getty Images

This Friday, January 17, solidarity vigils in support of affected
communities are planned across Australia and at embassies, consulates, and
other locations worldwide. Join one in a city near you, and donate to
relief efforts through the [ [link removed] ]Red Cross, [ [link removed] ]WIRES, or [ [link removed] ]Fire Sticks
Alliance. 

[ [link removed] ]Show Your Solidarity

 

Extreme floods: Torrential monsoon rains – made worse by climate change –
marked the turn of the decade in Indonesia. Close to 180,000 people were
displaced in Jakarta and West Java from flooding. It was the heaviest
rainfall since record-keeping began in 1996, and 66 people died. [ [link removed] ]Read
more

Happening now, fatal flooding is leaving a wake of destruction in Angola –
and more rain is forecast over the coming days. [ [link removed] ]More

Demands at Davos: 21 youth strikers including Greta Thunberg issued
concrete demands for financiers to respond to climate devastation
happening around the globe at next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland:

* Immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and
extraction
* Immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies
* Immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels

Activists will complete a [ [link removed] ]3-day winter hike from Landquart to Davos to
pressure CEOs and other summit members with a climate strike. 

Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon with protesters outside a Chase Bank branch
in Washington, D.C. Photo: Anna Moneymaker, New York Times 

End fossil finance, now: Expect even more pressure on the finance world in
the new decade. A new [ [link removed] ]Stop the Money Pipeline coalition just launched
in the U.S., and it’s already [ [link removed] ]taking on the biggest lenders to the
dirty energy industry.

In Canada, 29 youth [ [link removed] ]occupied the Toronto offices of the main
financiers of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, in solidarity with
Wet’suwet’en land defenders.

Tennis star Roger Federer’s sponsorship with Credit Suisse bank was
[ [link removed] ]thrown into question by activists as the Australian Open begins today
in Melbourne.

And the [ [link removed] ]#SiemensFuelsFires campaign – a collaboration between
#StopAdani campaigners and German Fridays for Future activists – is
calling out the multinational’s business with Adani for its coal mine in
Queensland, Australia.

 

Inside Story

These women remind us that however daunting the climate crisis is, we are
not powerless. Meet the all-female Indigenous firefighting crew protecting
communities in Australia. [ [link removed] ]Read more

Photo: Jessica Shapiro

One to Watch

It’s a new decade – and that means big plans to make the fossil fuel
industry pay for climate justice. Are you ready for 2020? [ [link removed] ]Now is the
time to get involved.

 

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