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Month: November 2021

Thanksgiving’s 400 million pound footprint on climate change
24Nov By Climate 360 NewsNo Comments
Economy, Loyola Marymount University, Science, Video

Thanksgiving’s 400 million pound footprint on climate change

By Genesis Jefferson, Brandon Lang https://youtu.be/6TApGoc2KEQ After generous amounts of turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pie where do all those leftovers end up? And where do all those ingredients come from in the first place? Dr. Ermias Kebreab, associate Dean and professor of Animal Science at the University of California Davis, explains how food production affects climate change and what you can do this Thanksgiving to help limit your climate footprint. This Thanksgiving, Climate360News encourages you to reflect on the history of colonialism in the United States. Visit native-land.ca to learn more and join the conversation today.
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COP26 Week 2: Summit “heats up” as representatives struggle to finalize plan
17Nov By Climate 360 NewsNo Comments
Economy, Loyola Marymount University, Policy

COP26 Week 2: Summit “heats up” as representatives struggle to finalize plan

By Alex Kim The second week of COP26 focused on drafting a global climate accord by the end of the summit, as criticisms continued to swirl around pledges that were made. Day Eight: Sunday, Nov. 7 A counter climate summit began on Sunday, Nov. 7, because of the “greenwashing” and inaction from investors and world leaders of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). The purpose of The People’s Summit for Climate Justice is to bring attention to ideas and solutions which, it believes, have not been effectively addressed at COP26. Some of the key points that the counter-summit advocated for were the Global Green New Deal – a UN proposition from 2009 that has never been passed – and corporate liability for th...
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COP26 Week 1: Catalyst for change or performative gesture?
16Nov By Climate 360 NewsNo Comments
Economy, Energy, Loyola Marymount University, Policy

COP26 Week 1: Catalyst for change or performative gesture?

By Alex Kim The first week of COP26 was packed with action. From new agreements to failings of old ones the first week leaves us with a lot to discuss. Day One: Sunday, Oct. 31 The opening days of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) brought out representatives and activists from the global community to discuss climate change and find ways to mitigate its effects on the planet. Though not formally invited, climate activist Greta Thunberg was swarmed by hundreds of people concerned with climate change upon her arrival to the convention in Glasgow, Scotland. Representatives from around the globe were calling on world leaders to take direct action to prevent the global climate from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above  “pre-industrial levels....
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Journalists give climate coverage a report card
9Nov By Climate 360 NewsNo Comments
Community, Loyola Marymount University, Morgan State University, Video

Journalists give climate coverage a report card

By Alexis Durham, Genesis Jefferson https://youtu.be/SXT64rKj42Q CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir, former New York Times reporter John Schwartz, and Morgan State University professor and former Washington Post reporter Karen DeWitt give climate change coverage a grade and discuss what more needs to be done. Learn more about our view on mainstream climate change coverage here.
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Climate change reporting lies with us
9Nov By Climate 360 NewsNo Comments
Community, Loyola Marymount University, Opinion

Climate change reporting lies with us

By Ashley Buschhorn Climate change is ravaging our planet, killing crops, driving animals to extinction and, yes, killing people, yet the mainstream media's coverage of the issue is woefully lacking. “The state of coverage does not meet the state of emergency,” CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir told Climate360 News. A new report shows that 85% of the world population has experienced a weather event that has been worsened by climate change. The report also showed that global warming has affected 80% of the world’s land area. When you consider these events one by one you discover the human-impact of them. Whether it is Texans freezing to death in the 2021 winter storm or refugee camps in South Sudan being swept away by flash floods, there is a toll on human life br...
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