The science of climate change is now clear, but the politics is very muddy. Historically, the major polluters were the rich, industrialised countries, so it made sense that they should pay the highest price. The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in December 1997, set binding targets for these countries to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 per cent on average against 1990 levels by 2012. But by 2007, America’s greenhouse-gas levels were 16 per cent higher than 1990 levels. The American Clean Energy and Security Act, which was passed in June, commits the US to reduce emissions to 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, yet this is just 4 per cent below 1990 levels. Continue reading
Category: RT Newswire
USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Today Greenpeace launched the Carbon Regulatory Offset Committee, or “CROC.
The project integrates online and offline elements to educate
people the dangers of the huge quantities of low-quality carbon
offsets proposed by the US and other developed countries. Continue reading
September 2009 RTNA Newsletter!
Eight Hours for What We Will!
Unions: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
That phrase by far, remains one of the most popular modern slogans created by the union movement:
No surprise. We all love weekends. But getting the weekend meant winning the right to an eight-hour day—and that took decades to win, with much blood lost and many deaths along the way. Continue reading