{"id":388853,"date":"2018-12-12T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/worlds-biggest-emitters-must-act-now-to-stop-devastating-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T12:35:06","slug":"worlds-biggest-emitters-must-act-now-to-stop-devastating-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/worlds-biggest-emitters-must-act-now-to-stop-devastating-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Biggest Emitters Must Act Now to Stop Devastating Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The 24th United Nations climate summit comes amid growing warnings about the catastrophic danger climate change poses to the world. In October, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate climate change or face global catastrophe \u2014 with severe droughts, floods, sea level rise and extreme heat set to cause mass displacement and poverty. But on Saturday, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait blocked language \u201cwelcoming\u201d the landmark<span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">IPCC <\/span>climate report. New studies show global carbon emissions may have risen as much 3.7 percent in 2018, marking the second annual increase in a row. A recent report likened the rising emissions to a \u201cspeeding freight train.\u201d We speak with Kevin Anderson, professor in climate change leadership at Uppsala University\u2019s Centre for Environment and Development Studies, and 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg about the drastic action needed to fight climate change and the impact of President Trump on climate change activism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Yes, this is<span> <\/span>Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I\u2019m Amy Goodman. We\u2019re broadcasting from the UN climate summit right here in Katowice, Poland. And we\u2019re continuing our conversation with Greta, who has been on a school strike calling for climate action. She sits outside the Swedish parliament every Friday. In September, before the election, she sat for three weeks straight on weekdays. A number of kids also then started to join her.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re also joined by the renowned climate scientist Kevin Anderson, professor in climate change leadership at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University, also chair of energy and climate change at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester in Britain. Kevin recently tweeted, \u201cOn climate change @GretaThunberg demonstrates more clarity &amp; leadership in one speech than a quarter of a century of the combined&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/worlds-biggest-emitters-must-act-now-to-stop-devastating-climate-change\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 24th United Nations climate summit comes amid growing warnings about the catastrophic danger climate change poses to the world. In October, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate climate change or face global catastrophe \u2014 with severe droughts, floods, sea level rise and extreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}