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Failing Test for Green Recovery, Tracker Shows G20 Nations Pumping $151 Billion Into Fossil Fuel Industry Amid Pandemic

New global data shows G20 countries have committed $151 billion to supporting fossil fuels as part of coronavirus recovery packages. (Photo: CGP Grey/Flickr/cc)

Greta Thunberg Says Covid-19 Should Be Global Wake-Up Call to 'Act With Necessary Force' to Tackle Climate Emergency

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

In a new radio program, the Swedish teenager details and reflects on her travels around the world the past year as a youth climate leader.

World Environment Day Provokes Warnings That 'To Care for Humanity, We Must Care for Nature'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

U.N. chief António Guterres, Fridays for Future strikers, and other activists...

Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer works on his field in Ghent, Belgium on May 21, 2020.

"E.U. politicians must recognize that a great hope to combat the climate crisis...

In Another Record 'We Should Not Be Breaking,' Daily Average of CO2 Levels Hits High of 418.12 ppm

Greta Thunberg Advances Fight Against Another 'Child-Rights Crisis' With UNICEF Campaign to Support Kids Impacted by Covid-19

Amid Dual Crises of Climate and Covid-19, World Leaders Told 'Empty Words Will Not Help Us'

Humanity Must 'Tackle Two Crises at Once,' Says Greta Thunberg of Climate and COVID-19 on 50th Earth Day

Delaying #COP26 Over Coronavirus, Say Green Groups, 'Is Not an Excuse to Postpone Climate Ambition!'

Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Global Digital Mobilization to Mark 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

'Coronavirus Isn't Stopping Us!': Youth Activists Adapt to Global Pandemic With Digital #ClimateStrikeOnline

Greta Thunberg Urges Strikers to 'Unite Behind Science' and Join #DigitalStrike for 'Best Interest of Our Common Society'

Europe Wraps Up Warmest Winter on Record With Massive Youth #ClimateStrike in Brussels

'World Leaders Are Behaving Like Children,' Greta Thunberg Tells Thousands of Bristol Strikers in Call for Climate Action

60,000-Strong Fridays for Future Protest in Hamburg, Germany Prompts Question: 'Where Are You, USA?'

'The Saddest Thing Is That This Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm

Further

On Panic and Hope: No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference

That stark photo of Greta Thunberg's solitary, obstinate climate strike was a mere year ago. This week, four million people joined her in the largest climate strike ever to declare, "L ike the sea, we rise ." Greta's rhetoric is hard-core: She told Dems lauding her to "save your praise...Don’t (tell) us how inspiring we are without doing anything about it," and told global leaders, "I don't want your hope, I want you to panic." We're all good on panic thanks, but we'll take the hope too.