We know what to do, and multitudes are pressing business, finance, and governments to do it. Meanwhile, battery costs have reach that tipping point where EVs will soon have lower purchase prices than gas guzzlers. Now, can anybody make packs with the new batteries that can be swapped into existing electric cars? Will we see them in any of the 2024 models?
End Fossil Fuel March: Estimates 75K in NYC
Over 700 organizations, led by march organizers at the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Popular Democracy, Climate Organizing Hub, Food & Water Watch, Fridays For Future USA & NYC, Earthworks, Greenfaith, Indigenous Environmental Network, New York Communities for Change, Oil Change International and Oil & Gas Action Network, supported today’s mass action. In addition, over 100 federal elected leaders, actors, and renowned climate activists lent their support to the march. Additionally, 400 scientists and nearly 100 local elected officials in New York, Hawaii, and across the country sent letters to President Biden asking him to end fossil fuel expansion and declare a climate emergency.
Hundreds of activists call for an end to fossil fuels in Sacramento before Climate Ambition Summit
Climate Week NYC: Here's what to watch
Climate Week NYC coincides with the United Nations General Assembly, and is supersized this year into a blitz of hundreds of events, ranging from panels to a full-day U.N. summit called by the secretary general.
- There will be many announcements made, especially from businesses looking to tout their pro-environmental bona fides.
Yes, but: What really matters, though, is what happens at Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Ambition Summit on Wednesday, along with the building of coalitions between public and private entities on the sidelines of the UNGA.
- The summit is the only meeting of its kind leading into COP28 in Dubai later this year. But unlike its far larger counterpart, Guterres did not invite oil and gas company CEOs to speak here.
Kitchen Table Kibitzing: End Fossil Fuels March This Weekend by boatsie.
Organizers of the March to End Fossil Fuels announced that 500 organizations have endorsed the upcoming mobilization
If Fox's Jesse Watters had his way, this coming weekend's climate activists would be 'run over' by Meteor Blades
Actually, Climate Denialists→Wile E. Coyote