by US Fair Share | Sep 17, 2024 | Blog Posts
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...
by US Fair Share | Dec 11, 2023 | Blog Posts
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...
by Susannah Tuttle | Dec 4, 2023 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
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...
by US Fair Share | Dec 4, 2023 | Blog Posts
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...
by US Fair Share | Nov 3, 2023 | Blog Posts
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...
by Tom Athanasiou | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog Posts
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.
