The Earth is heating up, and so are hopes for climate action in 2021.
A climate strike in Wellington.
Photo: RNZ / Ana Tovey
Climate change strikers say they ll be back this year, starting with a rally at Parliament on 26 January.
Last year, the climate strike movement was somewhat interrupted by the global pandemic - and young people all over the world held online strikes instead to share their concerns for the earth s future.
School Strike 4 Climate leader Ethan Reille says a New Zealand-only campaign, 100 days 4 action , has been developed to put pressure on the government.
This year s action starts with a holiday wishlist of demands, to be handed to Parliament on 26 January, Reille says.
The 2019 School Strike 4 Climate, in Wellington.
Photo: RNZ / Ana Tovey
The group School Strike 4 Climate NZ, the organisers of a series of marches across New Zealand in 2019, are holding what they call an intergenerational protest outside parliament on 26 January.
They have called the new campaign 100 Days 4 Action , and want the new government to meet a range of real transformative demands in their first 100 days in power.
Members have been called on to contribute online to crowdsourcing for ideas to create the list of demands they plan to present to parliament, but they expect it will include work toward phasing out the use of fossil fuels, decreasing agriculture emissions and investment in climate education.
Youth Climate Strike protesters gather on the steps of the Massachusetts State House. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
The climate bill currently sitting on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk is bold and ambitious. It holds great promise for Massachusetts, as we transition to a clean energy economy that will bring cleaner air and job growth.
But it also has real consequences for the entire nation.
As former heads of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
(NYSERDA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), we know firsthand that state policymakers across the country are networked together, and are keenly aware of others’ steps forward or backward on energy and environmental policy. When one state passes and proves a new policy solution, it redefines the realm of what might be possible in the other 49.
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A crucial bill to address climate change and advance environmental justice in the Commonwealth is waiting to be signed by Governor Baker before midnight on January 14 (just HOURS left!). This bill, "An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy" (S2995), is