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Ahead of COP29, Climate Coalition Releases a New Report on A Science and Justice Aligned U.S. NDC
In the coming months, signatories to the Paris Agreement will begin to share updated climate commitments, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which are due in February 2025. NDCs, which are updated every five years, detail the measures a country will...
Fighting for a realistic agreement at cop28
The COP28 President Al Jaber, who also is head of Abu-Dhabi National Oil Company, claimed there was “no science” supporting that we need to phase out fossil fuels to stay below 1.5℃. He has also been a strict advocate for the “phase down” and “abated” use of fossil...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hundreds Demand the Biden Administration Do Its Fair Share for Climate Action At COP28
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, December 4, 2023 Dubai, UAE - Today a letter was sent to the Biden Administration from nearly 50 organizations and 500 climate leaders from around the United States calling for the country to recognize its fair share, and lead with that...
Letter IMPLORING the Biden Administration Do Its Fair Share for Climate Action At COP28
Dear President Biden, As 2023 comes to a close and COP28 gets ready to begin, the world faces unprecedented climate disasters. These are not only headline-grabbing sudden onset events, like Hurricane Otis which went from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane in a...
Why Historical Responsibility Could Make or Break COP28
The concept that the countries that have contributed the most greenhouse gasses historically should have to do more on climate action is a simple one, but one that has been highly debated over decades. This is because of the high expectations around climate action and...
Press Release: US Fair Share NDC
Washington, DC— Today, environmental, environmental justice, and international development groups are releasing the “Fair Shares Nationally Determined Contribution” (“Fair Shares NDC”) laying out the measures the United States should commit to carrying out to do its...
Over 50,000 people & 195 global groups demand Biden commit the U.S. to do its “fair share” on climate
February 17, 2021 The petition is the latest call for Biden administration to walk the walk on climate by taking responsibility for historical emissions Washington — Just days before the reentry of the United States into the Paris Agreement becomes official,...
A tweet thread, a press conference, a cool video . . .
What to learn more about the US Fair Shares position? Hunter Cutting has an excellent tweet thread here. There’s a very informative press release here. A YouTube of the press briefing is available here. And there's this cool little video, which was put together by...
Bill McKibben features US Fair Shares in the New Yorker
Notably, Bill McKibben featured the USCAN fair shares position in his New Yorker Climate Newsletter — in a piece he called The Climate Debt the U.S. Owes the World. It was very widely circulated.
Press Release: Analysis Establishes U.S. ‘Fair Share’ Contribution to Paris Agreement
USCAN endorses dual Paris target in which strong support for decarbonization abroad supplements 70% emissions reductions at home by 2030 US Climate Action NetworkFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2020CONTACT: Emma Stieglitz, estieglitz@climatenexus.org, Hunter...