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      Alliance of 60+ Groups Demands Farm Bill That Rejects False Climate Solutions

      "There's no way around it—we have to actually cut fossil fuel emissions," said Food & Water Watch.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 16, 2023

      Dozens of climate action, Indigenous rights, and public interest groups on Thursday announced an alliance that plans to engage with lawmakers ahead of this year's congressional debate on the Farm Bill, calling on them to pass legislation that rejects carbon offsets, carbon markets, and other policies that perpetuate a planet-heating agricultural system.

      Food & Water Watch convened more than 60 groups including the Farmworker Advocacy Network, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), all of whom have been disturbed in recent months by the passage of "at least three pieces of legislation that promote carbon offsets and dirty energy, propping up corporate ag interests and factory farming."

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      Protesters participate in a demonstration against the French government's plan to raise the retirement age in front of the National Assembly in Paris, on March 16, 2023.

      Enraging Workers, Macron Bypasses Parliament With 'Nuclear Option' on Retirement Age Hike

      "What the government is doing makes people sick of politics. It should improve people's lives, not destroy them," said Rachel Keke, a leftist in France's National Assembly.

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 16, 2023

      Amid protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to overhaul the country's pension system, his government on Thursday chose the "nuclear option," opting to use a constitutional procedure to force through reforms, including raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, without a vote in the lower house of Parliament.

      While the proposal passed the Senate, the upper chamber of Parliament, 193-114 Thursday morning, "reports indicated that the ruling party, which lost its overall majority in elections last year, was a handful of votes short" in the National Assembly, which led to an emergency Council of Ministers meeting about triggering Article 49.3, Le Mondeexplained.

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      People look at a damaged road in Blantyre, Malawi on March 14, 2023.

      Fossil Fuel Giants Urged to 'Pay Up' After Tropical Cyclone Freddy Kills 300+

      "Disasters such as these are further evidence of the injustice suffered by the nations that contribute least to the climate crisis," said one campaigner as thousands in Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar mourn.

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 16, 2023

      As the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy continues to rise, climate justice advocates are imploring the fossil fuel corporations most responsible for the destruction to reduce their planet-wrecking emissions, compensate victims, and fund rebuilding.

      The intense and long-lasting storm—precisely the type of extreme weather event that scientists have warned is more likely due to unmitigated greenhouse gas pollution—has hammered the southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar in recent weeks. Flooding and mudslides have killed more than 300 people, injured hundreds of others, and displaced at least 20,000 households. Ongoing rainfall has complicated burial services and rescue efforts as hundreds remain missing.

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