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      Avi Kwa Ame National Monument

      ​New Biden Monument Designations Don't Make Up for Disastrous Willow Approval: Critics

      "We cannot save more nature if the federal government continues to approve destructive oil and gas operations like the Willow project," said one campaigner.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 21, 2023

      Conservation advocates on Tuesday credited yearslong campaigns led by Indigenous groups and other frontline organizers with pushing President Joe Biden to designate two new national monuments in the southwestern U.S., but they also emphasized that the gesture cannot negate the environmental damage that the White House set in motion last week when it approved ConocoPhillips' Willow oil drilling project.

      Biden announced new protections for a large portion of Avi Kwa Ame—also known as Spirit Mountain—in the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada, and the Castner Range near El Paso, Texas.

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      The world's first 100,000-ton low-carbon methanol plant was recently put into operation in China.

      Climate Groups Reject 'Risky, Untested' Technofixes in IPCC Report

      "Solving the climate crisis is not about what works on paper but what delivers in practice. There is no time to waste with false solutions."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 20, 2023

      Longtime critics of "false solutions" to the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency responded to a United Nations report released Monday by reiterating their warnings about relying on underdeveloped and untested technologies that could enable major polluters to continue producing massive amounts of planet-heating emissions.

      Noting the 2015 Paris agreement's two primary temperature targets for this century, the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that "all global modeled pathways that limit warming to 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot, and those that limit warming to 2°C, involve rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in all sectors this decade.

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      Cows at seen at a dairy farm

      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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