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      John Kerry grimaces at the Climate Ambition Summit.

      The Climate Ambition Summit Exposed US Fossil Fuel Failure

      President Joe Biden still has a chance to correct course before COP28.

      Jean Su
      Nyshie Perkinson
      Sep 27, 2023

      It was stunning to see U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry stalking the sidelines of the United Nations’ historic Climate Ambition Summit last week, firmly shut out from the opportunity to speak. The United States isn’t used to being sidelined on the global stage. Indeed it may be the first time in U.N. history that the U.S. was barred from speaking at an international summit.

      The U.S. got itself into the climate summit’s “time-out corner” because of its wretched record on fossil fuels. And the stakes couldn’t be higher for President Joe Biden to correct course.

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      Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta speaks at the UNGA

      Two More Countries Join Growing Bloc of Nations Calling for a Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty

      "The endorsement of the fossil fuel treaty proposal by Antigua and Barbuda and Timor-Leste... shows who are the real climate leaders," said the initiative's political director.

      Brett Wilkins
      Sep 24, 2023

      Two island nations on Saturday joined the growing bloc of countries endorsing a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty amid a worsening climate emergency and continued inadequate action by the larger and wealthier polluters most responsible for causing the planetary crisis.

      Answering United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' exhortation at this week's Climate Ambition Summit for countries to accelerate efforts to end fossil fuels, the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda and Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia announced their support for a binding FFNPT.

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      March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City

      Battling for Hope at the Gates of Hell

      The world has changed in the seven centuries since Dante, but human nature hasn’t.

      Amy Goodman
      Denis Moynihan
      Sep 23, 2023

      “Humanity has opened the gates of hell,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his welcome to world leaders at the first ever UN Climate Ambition Summit, convened during this year’s UN General Assembly. “Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods, sweltering temperatures spawning disease and thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage. Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge.”

      Guterres was likely invoking Dante’s epic medieval poem, The Inferno. In it, Dante describes being led by the Greek poet Virgil through the nine circles of hell after passing through gates bearing the warning, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

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