Keep it in the Ground – the Guardian’s climate campaign
This week we’ve been running a special series on Keep it in the Ground, #groundup, about and by the generation that’ll be the most affected by climate change:
- Film-maker Finn Harries: my generation must save the planet
- Climate Hope City: how Minecraft can tell the story of climate change
- Eco-friendly budget travel – latest guide
- My generation does give a damn about climate change, says 14-year-old activist
- The young climate campaigners to watch before the UN’s Paris summit
- John Oliver can make global warming funny, but climate comedy is still hard
- Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change
We’re calling on the world’s two biggest charitable funds, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, to shift their money out of fossil fuels. Please join us and sign the petition here.
Environment news
- G7 leaders agree to phase out fossil fuel use by end of century
- Polar bears eat dolphins as Arctic warms
- Bonn meeting ends with last-minute compromise on Paris climate text
- Republicans’ leading climate denier tells the pope to butt out of climate debate
- Great Barrier Reef meets criteria for ‘in danger’ listing by Unesco, say lawyers
- Robin wins vote for UK’s national bird
- Tony Abbott agrees windfarms may have ‘potential health impacts’
- BP boss widens transatlantic rift in energy industry over climate change
- Minister rejects calls for inquiry into sheep dip poisoning risk
- Record boost in new solar power continues massive industry growth
On the blogs
- Stop using China as an excuse for inaction on climate change
- Why cycling in the UK is so scary
- Bolivia opens up national parks to oil and gas firms
- What you need to know about the Noaa global warming faux pause paper
- Sheep, Mexican farmers and Shinto priests vie for green film award
Multimedia
- Can China fix the world’s climate? – video
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- US climate change deniers lambast the Pope over his environment encyclical – video
- Pharrell Williams: climate change is defining issue of our time
Features and comment
- Harvesting hill streams of Wales for hydropower
- G7 fossil fuel pledge is a diplomatic coup for Germany’s ‘climate chancellor’
- How to change the world: Greenpeace and the power of the mindbomb
- Is this the world’s greenest festival?
- Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Annie Leonard: Shell’s Arctic drilling is the real threat to the world, not kayaktivists
And finally ...
Not taking global warming seriously enough? Our failure to act, and bad weather, will mean many of the pleasures we take for granted will disappear.
