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<font size="+1"><i>March 8, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Legal]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/youths-defeat-trump-s-move-to-kill-climate-change-lawsuit">Teenagers
Defeat Trump's Move to Kill Climate Change Lawsuit</a></b><br>
Bloomberg March 7, 2018<br>
They claim that for more than 50 years, the office of the president
and eight federal agencies promoted regulations to support the U.S.
energy industry's proliferation of fossil fuels, accounting for a
quarter of the world's carbon emissions. They asked the court to
force the government to formulate a formal plan to change course...<br>
<blockquote>Juliana v. United States is not about the government’s
failure to act on climate. Instead, the 21 young<br>
plaintiffs assert that the U.S. government, through its
affirmative actions in creating a national energy<br>
system that cause climate change, has violated their
constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property, and<br>
has failed to protect essential public trust resources. The case
is one of many related legal actions brought<br>
by youth in several states and countries, all supported by Our
Children’s Trust, and all seeking<br>
science-based action by governments to stabilize the climate
system.<br>
</blockquote>
Barring an intervention by the Supreme Court, U.S. District Judge
Ann Aiken must now decide which government officials can be
questioned in depositions. The teens earlier sought the testimony of
Rex Tillerson, who was chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon
Mobil Corp. and headed a petroleum industry trade group before Trump
appointed him as Secretary of State. The deposition request was
denied while his confirmation to that post was pending.<br>
The appeal is In re: USA v. USDC-ORE, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit (San Francisco). The lower-court case is Juliana v.
U.S.A., 15-cv-01517, U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
(Eugene).<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/youths-defeat-trump-s-move-to-kill-climate-change-lawsuit">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-07/youths-defeat-trump-s-move-to-kill-climate-change-lawsuit</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20180307-Press-Release-Ninth-Circuit-Decision-on-Trump-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf">Press
Release:</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20180307-Press-Release-Ninth-Circuit-Decision-on-Trump-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf">https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20180307-Press-Release-Ninth-Circuit-Decision-on-Trump-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf</a><br>
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[Vermont]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://vtdigger.org/2018/01/10/resolutions-launched-30-vermont-towns-seek-climate-solutions/"><b>VERMONT
TOWNS PASS RESOLUTIONS SEEKING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS</b></a><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <br>
March 6, 2018<br>
34 VERMONT TOWNS PASS RESOLUTIONS SEEKING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS<br>
On Town Meeting Day, Vermont residents from 34 towns voted
overwhelmingly in favor of resolutions seeking climate solutions.
The exact wording of each resolution varied, but all the resolutions
acknowledged the severity of climate change, urged the State of
Vermont to meet its goals for 90% renewable energy, and called for a
fair and equitable transition off fossil fuels. The majority of the
resolutions also demanded a ban on any new fossil fuel
infrastructure, such as natural gas pipelines. In many towns the
resolutions passed unanimously, and every resolution passed where
it was on the agenda or ballot. <br>
"Every corner of Vermont has been impacted by climate change, with
either floods, increased Lyme disease, wind storms, reduced snow, or
shortened sugaring seasons," said Maeve McBride, director of
350Vermont. "So, it's not surprising that we see these resolutions
passing in 10 different Vermont counties. Clearly, Vermonters are
not happy with the State's meager progress, and they want to see
more action on climate change."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vtdigger.org/2018/01/10/resolutions-launched-30-vermont-towns-seek-climate-solutions/">https://vtdigger.org/2018/01/10/resolutions-launched-30-vermont-towns-seek-climate-solutions/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Important Video presentation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/QX3M8Ka9vUA">The
Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy</a></b><br>
VICE Jeremy Rifkin<br>
Published on Feb 13, 2018<br>
The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of
natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising
unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our
economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length
documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a
road map to usher in a new economic system. <br>
A Third Industrial Revolution is unfolding with the convergence of
three pivotal technologies: an ultra-fast 5G communication internet,
a renewable energy internet, and a driverless mobility internet, all
connected to the Internet of Things embedded across society and the
environment. <br>
This 21st century smart digital infrastructure is giving rise to a
radical new sharing economy that is transforming the way we manage,
power and move economic life. But with climate change now ravaging
the planet, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude
requires political will and a profound ideological shift. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Pipeline battles]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/07/bayou-bridge-pipeline-louisiana-governor-edwards-surveillance">Bayou
Bridge Pipeline Opponents Say Louisiana Governor's Office Is
Surveilling Them</a></b><br>
By Julie Dermansky • Wednesday, March 7, 2018<br>
Opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline accused Louisiana Governor
John Bel Edwards of meeting with representative of the oil and gas
industry while refusing to meet with activists and communities
affected by the pipeline's construction. They further allege that
the administration has instead placed them under surveillance,
pointing to similar treatment of Dakota Access pipeline opponents in
North Dakota in 2016. Their claims are based in part on emails and
other public records released by the state.<br>
The activists brought their grievances to the Democratic governor's
home and office on March 1, holding a press conference in front of
the Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge and then occupying the foyer
to his office in the State Capitol for over an hour.<br>
"The Bayou Bridge pipeline should be called the John Bel pipeline,"
Louisiana Bucket Brigade founder and director Anne Rolfes declared
at the press conference. In her view, "any accidents that will
happen" related to the pipeline lead back to the Governor. He had
the power to stop it, she said, but chose not to. <br>
At the press conference, representatives from the HELP Association,
350 New Orleans, L'eau est La Vie (Water Is Life) camp, and the
Center for Constitutional Rights also expressed disappointment in
what they described as the state government's cozy relationship with
industry.<br>
Louisiana Bucket Brigade read aloud emails about the Bayou Bridge
pipeline from the Edwards administration and industry that were
obtained by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a New
York-based legal and educational nonprofit...<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/07/bayou-bridge-pipeline-louisiana-governor-edwards-surveillance">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/07/bayou-bridge-pipeline-louisiana-governor-edwards-surveillance</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Tipping points]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/07/the-current-onset-of-climate-tipping-points/">The
Current Onset of Climate Tipping Points</a></b><br>
by ANDREW GLIKSON<br>
As extreme temperatures, the rate of sea ice melt, the collapse of
Greenland glaciers, the thawing of Siberian and Canadian permafrost
and increased evaporation in the Arctic drive cold snow storms into
Europe and North America, and as hurricanes and wild fires affect
tropical and semi-tropical parts of the globe, it is becoming clear
Earth is entering a shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean system
associated with destructive climate tipping points. As Arctic
permafrost is thawing an analogy with geological methane-release
events such as the 56 million years-old Paleocene-Eocene boundary
thermal maximum (PETM) event is becoming more likely.<br>
As is well known to students of the history of the climate, once a
temperature threshold is breached, abrupt weather events ensue
amplified by feedbacks such as decreased reflectivity of the Earth
surface and enhanced release of greenhouse gases, often within short
time frames...<br>
The current warming of Earth manifest in the Arctic Sea, the melting
of polar ice sheets, penetration of snow storms into mid-latitudes,
permafrost thaw, hurricanes and wildfires and the rise in extreme
weather events, manifesting a shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean
system, constitutes an existential threat to humanity and much of
nature.<br>
Apart from sharp reduction in carbon emissions, there appears to be
one chance to save the biosphere as we know it, namely CO2 down-draw
using every available method (cf. basalt dust application of soils,
carbon cultivation of soils (biochar), CO2 removal by air streaming
through basalt, extensive sea weed farms, 'sodium trees'
sequestering CO2 using sodium hydroxide in pipe systems). This would
require funds on the $trillions-scale currently allocated for the
military and for wars, humanity's choice being between ongoing wars
and defense of the Planet.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/07/the-current-onset-of-climate-tipping-points/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/07/the-current-onset-of-climate-tipping-points/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[International influence]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/06/fiji-climate-lead-lost-job-challenging-consultants-influence/">Fiji
climate lead challenged consultants' influence before losing job</a></b><br>
06/03/2018 <br>
Nazhat Shameem Khan was removed from her role in the UN climate
talks presidency after a protracted power struggle with Australian
and European advisers<br>
By Megan Darby<br>
<font size="-1">Climate Home News is one of the world's most trusted
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Fiji's presidency of the UN climate talks was an unprecedented
opportunity for the Pacific island state to make its mark
internationally.<br>
But the<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/02/28/fiji-chief-negotiator-replaced-midway-un-climate-presidency/">
sudden removal</a> of chief negotiator Nazhat Shameem Khan last
week, despite praise for her leadership, revealed a rift between the
Geneva-based diplomat and capital Suva.<br>
At the centre of the fight is a group of Australian and European
consultants brought in to assist the Fijian government to deliver
its biggest diplomatic challenge. Shameem Khan had increasingly
objected to the prominent role these outsiders had within Fiji's
presidency.<br>
In exclusive interviews with Climate Home News, insiders said this
eventually led to her deposal, with prime minister Frank Bainimarama
taking the consultants' side. They raised concerns that Fiji ceding
control to unaccountable professionals jeopardised a critical year
of climate talks.<br>
"In the world of [UN climate negotiations], to see a small island
state in the presidency being closely managed and controlled by
consultants from developed countries is not good for trust and
goodwill," a source from the Fijian delegation told Climate Home
News. "But [the consultants] refused to take a back seat and we had
difficulties in relation to this."<br>
Another member of the national staff, contacting CHN independently,
said: "Most of their advice and interference was harmful rather than
helpful… They undermined us and didn't understand the local
dimensions."<br>
Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity...<br>
<blockquote>Fiji's presidency of the climate talks centred on the UN
conference of parties (Cop) in Bonn in November 2017 and will
continue throughout 2018.<br>
<br>
To help with the huge undertaking, the Fijian government hired
consultants, including law firm Baker McKenzie, climate experts
Systemiq and public relations specialists Qorvis. An Australian,
John Connor, was appointed as executive director. It is not
unusual for national delegations, particularly small or poor
countries with limited capacity, to take external advice.<br>
<br>
They were paid through funds donated by other countries, with the
bulk coming from the developed world.<br>
<br>
The consultants chalked up wins for Fiji, brokering a $50 million
green bond for the island nation and coordinating "America's
Pledge" with California governor Jerry Brown and business leader
Mike Bloomberg.<br>
<br>
Initially, Shameem Khan and her team relied on consultants, UN
officials and former presidents of the climate talks to bring them
up to speed on the issues and processes. As they became more
knowledgeable, though, they quickly came to question the
consultants' advice and level of influence over the strategy.<br>
<br>
"The balance of power was wrong from day one," said the first
Fijian delegation source. "They were telling us how to run the Cop
at a visionary level."<br>
</blockquote>
It is not the first time Qorvis' influence on Fiji's government has
been questioned. In November, a former public servant told
Australia's ABC he had lost his job after refusing to become a
"lackey" for the PR firm.<br>
Fiji passes the baton this year to Poland, which is hosting the next
climate summit in December. Bainimarama told parliament Fiji would
continue to preside over a mass outreach programme, known as the
"talanoa dialogue", in partnership with Poland after its formal term
ended.<br>
<font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/06/fiji-climate-lead-lost-job-challenging-consultants-influence/">"This
article originally appeared on Climate Home News".</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/06/fiji-climate-lead-lost-job-challenging-consultants-influence/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/06/fiji-climate-lead-lost-job-challenging-consultants-influence/</a></font><br>
[sources $]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scribd.com/document/373187479/Fijian-PM-Statement-070318#from_embed">Fijian
PM Statement 070318 by Megan Darby on Scribd</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scribd.com/document/373187479/Fijian-PM-Statement-070318#from_embed">https://www.scribd.com/document/373187479/Fijian-PM-Statement-070318#from_embed</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Measure]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/23/Canada-Is-Unsustainable-So-Is-Everywhere-Else/">Canada
Is Unsustainable. So Is Everywhere Else</a></b><br>
If we want equality - and to survive - profound change is needed.<br>
By Crawford Kilian 23 Feb 2018 <br>
<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Source Sans
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!important; float: none;">"Sustainability" is a very popular
buzzword, though it's hard to define. We generally take it to mean
going on living as we do today, only forever, and with endless -
but sustainable! - economic growth. We elect governments on their
promises that, under their rule, we will keep on truckin' and our
children will truck even better.</span><br>
But a recent research article suggests that we're deceiving
ourselves and living far beyond our means - all of us, including
Canada.<br>
Writing in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Sustainability, a team
at the University of Leeds led by economist Daniel O'Neill presented
an<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color:
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we and our politicians will have to study and respond to. Many are
going to reject it. But they are going to have to offer a better
analysis if they want to be as persuasive as O'Neill.<br>
"A good life all within planetary boundaries" is a clearly written
document (though the math is beyond me) based on widely accepted
premises and a relatively new theory called<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/08/doughnut-economics-by-kate-raworth-review"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color:
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1.5px; border-bottom-style: solid;">"doughnut economics."</a><span>
</span>In a sense, it's a logical extension of Justin Trudeau's
claim to balancing the economy and environment, but with very
different results.<br>
The Earth is in the "Goldilocks" zone of the solar system - not too
hot, not too cold, just right. Similarly, a Goldilocks economy must
use enough resources to fund social benefits for everyone, but it
can't overshoot those resources or we're all in trouble.
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O'Neill sets out 11 social objectives aligned with the UN's
Sustainable Development Goals. They're pretty modest: a healthy life
expectancy of 65; adequate nutrition, sanitation and access to
energy; an income over $1.90 a day; 94 per cent employment; equality
(a<span> </span><a
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31847943"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color:
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1.5px; border-bottom-style: solid;">Gini index</a><span> </span>of
3.0, better than Canada's 3.2); secondary education; social support;
and democratic quality (at least as good as the U.S. and U.K.). All
these objectives are achievable by resource development and
efficient distribution of the proceeds.<br>
<b style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color: rgb(136, 136, 136);
font-weight: 700;">Four key boundaries</b><br>
That resource development faces four key boundaries. First, O'Neill
assumes climate change must be kept below a temperature increase of
two degrees Celsius. Second is land-system change - the quantity of
biomass harvested, wasted, or lost due to land-use changes. An
example might be a forest lost to housing.<br>
The third boundary is our use of fresh water, which we usually take
for granted as infinite until a drought hits.<br>
Fourth is our use of nitrogen and phosphorus in agriculture, as well
as our ecological and material "footprints" - how many other
organisms perish and ecosystems collapse to meet our needs. B.C.'s
wild salmon come to mind.<br>
O'Neill and his team then apply doughnut economics to 151 countries
around the world: Which of them are achieving the social objectives,
and which are living within the means of their resource base? The
results are surprising, and disturbing.<br>
Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria achieve all 11 social
objectives, closely followed by Japan, France, Sweden, Denmark,
Finland and Australia. Canada achieves nine out of 11 objectives,
matching the Czech Republic and the U.S.<br>
But we are transgressing six of the seven biophysical boundaries. We
haven't maxed out our fresh water supply, though we're getting
close. The U.S. is worse on employment and equality, and is starting
an overdraft on its fresh water.<br>
You wouldn't want to live in the countries that stay within their
biophysical boundaries, like Malawi and Yemen. They've achieved
essentially none of the social objectives. Similarly, Haiti crosses
no biophysical boundaries, but has achieved none of the social
objectives except employment. (Check the study's interactive
website,<span> </span><a
href="https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/countries/" target="_blank"
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font-weight: 400; border-bottom-width: 1.5px; border-bottom-style:
solid;">Country Comparisons</a>, for some eye-opening contrasts.)<br>
<b style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color: rgb(136, 136, 136);
font-weight: 700;">And the winner is…</b><br>
The country that comes closest to sustainability? Vietnam. Its
carbon emissions are too high, but it achieves six of the 11 social
objectives.<br>
A writer for the conservative U.S. magazine<span> </span><a
href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456138/environmentalists-push-global-wealth-redistribution"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color:
rgb(136, 136, 136) rgb(136, 136, 136) rgb(130, 173, 0);
background: 0px 0px; color: rgb(130, 173, 0); text-decoration:
none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; border-bottom-width:
1.5px; border-bottom-style: solid;">National Review</a><span> </span>promptly
condemned the O'Neill study as a blatant attempt to impose
totalitarian income redistribution on the world. Many Canadians and
Americans will endorse that view.<br>
<font size="-1"><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/23/Canada-Is-Unsustainable-So-Is-Everywhere-Else/">https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/23/Canada-Is-Unsustainable-So-Is-Everywhere-Else/</a></span></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2012/03/michael-stafford-gop-stuck-in-a-conservative-wonderland-.html">This
Day in Climate History - March 8, 2012</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
March 8, 2012: In a syndicated column, former Delaware Republican
Party official Michael Stafford notes:<br>
<blockquote>"The far-right’s capture of the GOP has gone largely
unchallenged by more responsible voices within the Party. Jon
Huntsman, for example, was the sole presidential candidate willing
to directly confront the prevailing [right-wing] orthodoxy on
climate and evolution. Perhaps this isn’t surprising, given the
viciousness of the attacks directed at dissenters. The passion for
purging and purity, and the primaries that resemble nothing so
much as heresy trials, highlight a critical fact about the
far-right. In Conservative Wonderland, dissent--thoughtcrime--is
the political version of a capital offense."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://themoderatevoice.com/140941/gop-stuck-in-a-conservative-wonderland/">http://themoderatevoice.com/140941/gop-stuck-in-a-conservative-wonderland/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2012/03/michael-stafford-gop-stuck-in-a-conservative-wonderland-.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2012/03/michael-stafford-gop-stuck-in-a-conservative-wonderland-.html</a></font><br>
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