The Rebirth of Coal
June 30, 2020
Funding for fossil fuels has not slowed down. In 2015, 197 nations signed The Paris Climate Agreement pledging to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The science is
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World Environment Day 2020 – Karenna Gore
June 5, 2020
Today is World Environment Day. Our nation is going through a painful reckoning with systemic racism and worsening economic inequity, so the “environment” can seem to be a lesser concern.
Catherine Coleman Flowers appointed to ‘Unity’ Task Force on Climate Change
May 21, 2020
Moved by a visit to Lowndes County, Alabama, Bernie Sanders has appointed Catherine Coleman Flowers, Founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ) and CEE Fellow on
U.S. Faith-Based Coalition Calls on World Bank to Take Climate Action in the Time of COVID
May 20, 2020
Washington, D.C. – A coalition of faith-based organizations in the United States will launch a campaign tomorrow in support of Big Shift, a global effort calling on the World Bank to
A Time for Change
April 17, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic should be understood as a dress rehearsal for climate change. The rapidity and breadth of its impact has been too much for our systems to bear. It’s
CEE Joins Big Shift Global
February 13, 2020
CEE is proud to announce that we have formally partnered with the Big Shift Global campaign. The Big Shift Global (BSG) is a multi-stakeholder, global campaign coordinated by organizations from the
Center for Earth Ethics Affiliates with Columbia Earth Institute
September 6, 2019
Beginning October 2019, the Center for Earth Ethics will affiliate with the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Karenna Gore, as director of CEE, will become an ex-officio member of the
CEE Gains Consultative Status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
September 6, 2019
The Center for Earth Ethics is pleased to announce that the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations adopted the recommendation of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Facing Devastation in the Amazon
August 29, 2019
by Guest Contributor, Alfredo Sirkis, Executive Director of the Brazil Climate Center / Climate Reality Project The confrontation with donors like Germany and Norway, the increase of more than
Original Caretakers Director, joined Indigenous Voices in Brazil to support the SDG’s
August 22, 2019
In the International Decade of Action for Water (2018-2028) and International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019, and coinciding with the international day of indigenous peoples (August 9), the international hydrological program celebrated with