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Climate Change News Digest for 5/15/24

This digest provides a selection of recent news articles relating to climate change and other environmental issues. Click on the title to read the full article from its original source.


By Damian Carrington (The Guardian)

The earth is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds.


Christiana Figueres (The Guardian)

Christiana Figueres was the head of the UN climate change convention from 2010 to 2016, warns that a sense of despair is understandable, but it robs us of our agency, makes us vulnerable to mis- and disinformation, and prevents the radical collaboration we need.


By Kiley Price (Inside Climate News)

Though climate change education varies across public schools in the U.S., extreme weather impacts are affecting them all.


By Scott Whitcomb (Michigan Department of Natural Resources)

The MI Healthy Climate Plan’s “Roadmap to 2030” strategy identifies conserving 30% of Michigan’s land and water by that milestone year – “30 by 30,” for short – as critical to achieving the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 52% from 2005 levels by 2030.


By Danielle Riedl and Devashree Saha (World Resources Institute)

While California is developing a detailed roadmap on how it will reduce its emissions, it doesn't yet include a plan for addressing the impact of refinery closures — specifically, loss of jobs, incomes and the critical tax revenues that support communities’ schools, healthcare systems and more.


Concerned about the Climate Crisis? - Learn what you can do: 10 ways you can help fight the climate crisis. For more news regarding the climate crisis, see Carbon Brief and Inside Climate News.

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