"How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis" [1]
"Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform agriculture and remake the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia."
Source: NYTimes Magazine [2], 12/16/2020
"Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform agriculture and remake the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia."
"Asia-Pacific has faced a record number of climate-related disasters in 2020, affecting tens of millions of vulnerable people already hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Red Cross said on Wednesday."
"Environmental and Alaska Native groups asked a federal court in Anchorage on Tuesday to stop the U.S. Interior Department from opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration before President Donald Trump leaves office next month."
"Thirty-one species of plants and animals were officially declared extinct in a report from an international conservation body published Thursday, which detailed the continued challenges and successes faced by conservationists around the world."
"The Trump administration adopted a rule Tuesday that could shrink the historic habitats of plants and animals threatened with extinction, an action that opponents say will make it more difficult for them to recover."
"The monarch butterfly was turned down by the Trump administration on Tuesday when the government declined to use the powers of the Endangered Species Act to help save it from extinction."
"The Federal Reserve is joining a network of central banks and other financial regulators focused on conducting research and shaping policies to help prepare the financial system for the effects of climate change."
"Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, the president-elect said in a statement on Tuesday, elevating the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to a top post in the federal government."
"President-elect Joseph R. Biden will nominate Jennifer M. Granholm, a former governor of Michigan and a longtime champion of renewable energy development, to be the next secretary of energy, according to four people close to the president-elect’s transition team."
"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to pick Gina McCarthy, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama and the architect of some of his most far-reaching regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions, to serve as senior White House adviser on climate change, according to three people close to the Biden transition team."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-russia-wins-climate-crisis
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russia-climate-migration-crisis.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/record-climate-disasters-asia-pacific-push-millions-breaking-point
[4] https://news.trust.org/item/20201216000254-x21ot/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/arctic-drilling-foes-sue-block-seismic-surveys-lease-sales-anwr
[6] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-arctic/arctic-drilling-foes-seek-to-block-seismic-surveys-lease-sales-in-alaska-refuge-idUSKBN28Q01Z
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dozens-species-declared-extinct-latest-iucn-report
[8] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/529740-dozens-of-species-declared-extinct-in-latest-iucn-report
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-trump-rule-could-shrink-protected-habitat-endangered-wildlife
[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/12/15/climate-endangered-species-trump/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/monarch-butterfly-denied-protection-trump-fws-despite-extinction-risk
[12] https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/15/monarch-butterfly-denied-protection/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fed-joins-climate-network-applause-left
[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/business/economy/fed-climate-network.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/joe-biden-picks-pete-buttigieg-be-transportation-secretary
[16] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-transportation-secretary/index.html
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-pick-jennifer-granholm-former-mi-gov-energy-secretary
[18] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/Jennifer-Granholm-energy-department.html
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-name-ex-epa-boss-gina-mccarthy-white-house-climate-coordinator
[20] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/gina-mccarthy-biden-climate.html
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