Greta Thunberg: 'We are speeding in the wrong direction' on climate crisis
Exclusive: Climate striker speaks before UN event marking five years since the Paris accord
The world is speeding in the wrong direction in tackling the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has said, before a UN event at which national leaders have been asked to increase their pledges for emissions cuts.
Thunberg, whose solo school strike in 2018 has snowballed into a global youth movement, said there was a state of complete denial when it came to the immediate action needed, with leaders giving only distant promises and empty words.
The fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord is on Saturday and should have seen countries set out new plans to keep global heating below 2C and close to 1.5C. Current pledges would mean a catastrophic 3C rise in temperatures.
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Thunberg has released a video which calls leaders to account for failing to reverse rising carbon emissions. “We are still speeding in the wrong direction,” she said. “The five years following the Paris agreement have been the five hottest years ever recorded and, during that time, the world has emitted more than 200bn tonnes of CO2.
“We need to stop focusing on goals and targets for 2030 or 2050,” she said. “We need to implement annual binding carbon budgets today.”
The Fridays for Future movement of youth climate strikers expects more than 2,500 protests to take place on Friday, though like Thunberg’s, many will be online due to Covid-19 restrictions.
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Biden cabinet
With roughly half of the positions already filled by prospective candidates, Biden appears to be prioritizing familiarity and political expediency over experience and deliberation. It has made for some neck-snapping inconsistency: The president-elect is somehow simultaneously overthinking and under-thinking some of the most important decisions he’ll make in his presidency—with potentially serious consequences for his administration’s effectiveness.
Secretary of the interior isn’t the most high-profile Cabinet post, but it might be the most glaring example of how President-elect Joe Biden’s selection process is going awry. The clear front-runner for the job is New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland, who was elected to the House in 2018. Since then, she’s won the praise of tribal leaders, progressive lawmakers, and even some Republicans for her consensus-driven approach to Indigenous issues and public lands. If nominated, Haaland would also be the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior—a potent historical move, given the department’s troubled history with tribal communities.
“[Haaland] has been a champion for our environment and public lands and has worked tirelessly to improve the nation-to-nation relationship between the United States and Indian tribes,” Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva, a progressive Democrat who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, wrote in a letter signed by more than four dozen other House Democrats. “By selecting her to be your Secretary of the Interior, you can make history by giving Native Americans a seat at the Cabinet table for the first time.” Alaska Representative Don Young, the dean of the House GOP, praised Haaland as a “consensus builder” and someone who has been “open to working across the aisle to get things done.”
This should be a slam dunk for the Biden transition team. Instead, members of that team have taken to anonymously criticizing Haaland to the press. They’ve surreptitiously told reporters that Haaland is “unqualified” for the job, a specious claim at best, and signaled that her support for the Green New Deal is somehow unacceptable. Those anonymous barbs drew criticism from both tribal leaders and some congressional Democrats, who warned that the Biden team was treating Haaland unfairly and undermining its broader relationship with Indian Country. Biden’s reported offer of the job to another New Mexico politician hasn’t helped matters, either.newrepublic.com/...