Climate Memo Mondays, #69,

69.  Climate Memo Mondays, #69, April 4, 2022

Good News

More bits of good news from ADG forwarded by Pat Snyder.
UN speaks up.
FRANK JOR­DANS.     U.N. chief calls fuel push a climate threat.  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Mar 22, 2022.  US drill baby pump.   Read more...
MARCY GOR­DON.    SEC rules to require reports on climate risk. 
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Mar 22, 2022.  Read more...
Maybe more substantial news from Public Citizen: Stopping Insurance
AIG will no longer insure polluting new coal, tar sands, and Arctic oil and gas projects!
They’ve been a big target of ours, because without insurance, companies can’t build fossil fuel expansion projects that are destroying our climate.   More up on our website here: https://www.citizen.org/article/aig-moves-towards-insuring-our-future/

An important warning, necessary rules, blocking ff insurance, but the US has no national policy to stop and reverse rising temperature, to adapt to and repair the harms already caused and damage already done.  A black ribbon binds together my personal library of books on The Green New Deal.

There is no ‘green transition’

James Plested.  Mronline.org (3-22-22). 

These days it’s no longer viable for the rich and powerful and their political servants simply to deny the reality of climate change and other environmental challenges. The new fad is to talk up whatever (inevitably small-scale) green initiatives are happening, and display the array of magical technological fixes that, like Forrest’s beloved “green hydrogen”, are always somehow just on the verge of taking off.

The Climate Action Accelerator: The Net-Zero Pathway

https://climateactionaccelerator.org

The Climate Action Accelerator aims to mobilise a critical mass of community organisations in order to scale up climate solutions, contain global warming ...