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Deforestation in Brazilian rainforest highest in a decade
COP24 panel
Our Message to World Leaders on Climate Action
Global leaders are in Poland for COP24, the latest international climate talks — and the Center's Climate Law Institute is there too.

This week we held a panel on the global movement to phase out oil, gas and coal production. We're part of Reclaim Power, a grassroots campaign demanding that governments make a fast, just transition to clean energy.

Before the talks we released an analysis of COP24's meat-heavy menu, which could emit an extra 4,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases. To curb climate change we must start cutting down the meat in our diets now, along with quickly, drastically reducing fossil fuel use.

Get details on our panel and our analysis of COP24's menu.

Republican activist with ties to Project Veritas infiltrates the Sierra Club

The Sierra Club, one of the nation’s oldest and most prominent environmental groups, was infiltrated earlier this year by a right-wing activist with alleged connections to Project Veritas, a conservative undercover video production company that has faced multiple lawsuits and criminal charges.

 Southern California conservative activist Ernie White, using the alias Earl White, began volunteering in the office of the Los Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club in April in an attempt to undermine the organization’s work, according to the environmental group.

 By volunteering with the Sierra Club through an alias, White was hoping to use the environmental group’s name in order to gain access to federal campaigns during the midterm election cycle, Maggie Kash, communications director for the Sierra Club, told ThinkProgress in an exclusive interview. Click here to read more!

Ocasio-Cortez-backed Green New Deal sees surprising momentum in House


The National Climate Assessment

Hundreds of the country's top scientists compiled a 1,000-page, congressionally mandated report detailing the economic and ecological devastation that inaction on climate change would cause over the next few decades. Naturally, the White House tried to bury the report by releasing it the Friday after Thanksgiving.

10 facts you probably missed in the government’s climate report

White House admits Trump climate policies will cost Americans $500 billion a year

Climate change will hit the most vulnerable first and hardest, major new government report finds

“This is not a political issue, it’s science."

providing another rare moment of reason on Fox News this week.