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Leah Stokes
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Today @TomSteyer dropped a new climate plan focused on international climate justice. It's got big ideas on accountability for polluters, climate refugees and more. Seems I'm out of retirement on climate plan analysis! Time for a brief THREAD.
tomsteyer.com/climate-justic…
The plan proposes to take in climate refugees by defining a new class if refugees and by increasing the number of refugees the US takes in. 2/
Climate change is happening now. There are already climate refugees. As @MichaelGerrard has proposed, the US has a responsibility to take in climate refuguees in proportion to its historic emissions. 3/
washingtonpost.com/opinions/ameri…
Echoing some ideas from @KateAronoff, the plan also proposes to hold big polluters accountable through a UN Environmental Crimes Tribunal. Very interesting! jacobinmag.com/2019/02/fossil…
There's also a lot of money on the table. The plan proposes $200B in total funding for global climate justice projects, which is the same level of funding that @BernieSanders has proposed. 5/
berniesanders.com/en/issues/gree…
Like @ewarren's trade plan, @TomSteyer's latest plan also focuses on using trade to make progress on climate. It says it would end all American fossil fuel investments abroad and fossil fuel exports. 6/
medium.com/@teamwarren/tr…
Overall, there are lots of exciting new ideas here. I recommend you take a look at @TomSteyer's latest climate plan, focused on international action and climate justice. /FIN
tomsteyer.com/climate-justic…
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Leah Stokes
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This week, @CBCNews decided to reprint a garbage article from @CanadianPress. It's a completely uncritical repackaging of the oil and gas industry’s talking points and an attack on the #ClimateStrike. Shame on the @CBC! Let's call them out in a THREAD! 🧵
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@CBCNews @CanadianPress @CBC More than a quarter (!) of Montreal’s population turned out to #ClimateStrike on Friday. But clearly the @CanadianPress couldn’t find a single striker or scientist to comment. I mean, it was only 1 IN 4 MONTREALERS that they could have spoken with... 2/
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@CBCNews @CanadianPress @CBC The article claims that “activists who want to stop new pipelines aren't considering the negative impact on Indigenous communities who are counting on oil and gas development to improve their lives.” And that fossil fuels are the solution to indigenous injustice.

Yeah, NO.
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Leah Stokes
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Yesterday 5 countries launched a plan for a new international Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS). What is this about?

Brief THREAD on some new global environmental cooperation! iisd.org/blog/time-acct…
Five countries are leading this effort: Costa Rica, Fiji, Iceland, New Zealand, and Norway. Notably, these countries plan to move ahead whether or not a lot of other big countries join them. That isn't how trade deals normally work. Clearly, they see climate action's urgency. 2/
The proposal calls for countries to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. I remember when the G20 called for it a decade ago! Yet we’ve made little progress. See research by @paashamahdavi @chadhazlett @MichaelRoss7.

We must eliminate fossil fuel subsidies!
nature.com/articles/nener…
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Leah Stokes
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Tonight in NYC, @ewarren gave a speech where she called out the corruption of the fossil fuel industry, the gun industry and the healthcare industry. She said they had captured our political system. Guess what? I’ve got a paper on that.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
@ewarren Along with @awh + @mmildenberger, I show that the more Congressional staff meet with and take money from the fossil fuel, gun and healthcare lobby, the worse job they do at estimating public support for climate action, gun control and Obamacare.
nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opi…
@ewarren @awh @mmildenberger .@ewarren's speech was very powerful. Finally we have politicians calling out the fossil fuel industry. I have waited 15 years to hear this kind of talk from our leaders. The fossil fuel era must end!
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