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UN pushing a ‘global tax treaty’! Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for ‘climate damage’ under another proposed UN tax

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/fossil-fuel-firms-may-have-to-pay-for-climate-damage-under-proposed-un-tax Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax By Fiona Harvey and Heather Stewart Excerpt: Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are […]

Tom Steyer’s climate pivot signals new playbook for Dems – He no longer mentions climate, instead pushes ‘affordability’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/tom-steyers-climate-pivot-signals-new-playbook-for-dems-00678252 The billionaire environmental activist is leaning hard into economic populism. By Noah Baustin12/05/2025 12:01 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO — You can measure how far Democrats have retreated from climate politics in one name: Tom Steyer. The billionaire environmental activist who built his political profile on climate change — and who wrote in his book […]

CFACT takes down UN assault on plastic

https://www.cfact.org/2026/02/01/cfact-takes-down-uns-attack-on-plastic/ By Melanie Collette In November 2025, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with the UN Environment Programme, released its 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business – a global framework that aspires to turn voluntary sustainability pledges into enforceable international policies. The report drew significant attention for its call to expand Extended Producer Responsibility systems, standardize […]

How Labour Betrayed Britain’s Working Class in the Name of Net Zero

https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/how-labour-betrayed-britains-working Labour, a movement born to defend workers, has become complicit in the hollowing out of British industry By TILAK DOSHI In Aberdeen, the warning sirens are no longer coming from offshore rigs but from the unions themselves. A recent study cited by the GMB union paints a stark picture: the North Sea’s offshore workforce, roughly 115,000 […]

How the U.S. Is Abandoning Joint Climate Action Under Trump – ‘Has escalated his retreat from global cooperation’ to fight global warming

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/us-exits-paris-agreement-what-trump-s-withdrawal-means-for-climate-change By Eric Roston and Brian Kahn The US officially exited the Paris Agreement on Jan. 27. It’s the second time President Donald Trump has pulled out of the pact that commits almost 200 countries to keep global warming to no more than 2C (3.6F), and ideally 1.5C, above pre-industrial levels. Compared with his first term in office, […]

So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact – Trump has formally removed the U.S. from the historic agreement that aims to limit global warming

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/so-long-paris-u-s-officially-leaves-landmark-climate-pact-00746628 By SARA SCHONHARDT The United States is officially out of the Paris Agreement, making it the only country to quit the historic climate pact — twice. The move to leave the agreement, set in motion by President Donald Trump exactly one year ago, takes effect Tuesday. Trump announced the departure on Jan. 20, 2025, […]

Trump formally takes US out of UN Paris climate agreement for a 2nd time – U.S. exit officially took effect on Jan 27, 2026 – UN warns USA will ‘hurt themselves’ by exiting climate pact

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/trump-withdraws-paris-climate-agreement By Dharna Noor The United States has officially exited the Paris climate agreement for the second time, cementing Donald Trump’s renewed break with the primary global venue to address global heating. The move leaves the US as the only country to have withdrawn from the pact, placing it alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries […]

NYT: ‘How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change’ – ‘Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change…its efforts have largely collapsed’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/climate/how-wall-street-turned-its-back-on-climate-change.html New York Times excerpt: In January 2020, Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, stunned the business world by declaring that he intended to use the trillions of dollars managed by his firm to address global warming. “Every government, company, and shareholder must confront climate change,” Mr. […]

Trump’s Withdrawal From UN Climate Bodies Mirrored Corporate Retreat From ESG

Trump’s Withdrawal From UN Climate Bodies Mirrored Corporate Retreat From ESG by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump put another dent in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement, withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and 65 other international organizations dedicated to climate and […]