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Climate change is the biggest crisis of our times, transversal to everything
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🌿 COP29 Wrap Up 🌿
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🌿🌎 Special COP 29 Newsletter 🌎🌿
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editor. COP 29, the annual U.N. climate conference started today in Baku,
Azerbaijan, and it happens at a critical time for our planet.
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🌿Special Election Newsletter🌿
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editor. With the presidential election happening tomorrow, today’s newsletter is
a special one. More than ever, this year’s election
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Climate
Hurricane Milton 🌿 Helene misinformation 🌿 First gas lawsuit
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Helene’s aftermath 🌿 Farm Bill negotiations
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EPA’s ban on DCPA 🌿 $1.5 billion for “carbon negative” fertilizer 🌿 U.S. first CCS violations
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Plastic found in brains 🌿 Mercury release 🌿 A.I. rising temperatures 🌿 Climate in the Elections
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$2 Billion for the Energy Grid 🌿 Green Groups Endorse Harris 🌿 Workers Rally for Heat Protection 🌿 Fighting Wildfires With AI
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Climate
Climate under Harris 🌿 Project 2025 🌿 False climate solution
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Climate in the elections 🌿 LGN is back 🌿 Record-breaking hurricane season
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The past two years have seen record high levels of CO2 in our atmosphere, in
spite of policies from
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OptOut’s budget cuts 🌿 $7 tri for Big Oil since Paris Agreement 🌿 Politicians delay Climate Action 🌿 Criminalizing pipeline protests
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Unfortunately, today I have some not-so-good news for you. After receiving the
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Climate
Biden’s Climate Rush 🌿 Climate Justice Undermined 🌿 Taxing the Rich
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Failed climate goals 🌿 Capturing carbon to pump more oil 🌿 Billing companies for climate disasters
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If you haven’t checked out our latest Global South Corner, in which I spoke...
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Climate
Ceasefire for climate 🌿 Heatflation 🌿 Siding with Big Oil
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Elections 🌿 LNG opaque dangers 🌿 Solar energy milestone
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Newsletter
COP 28: Three Months Later
When Sultan Al Jaber, dressed in his traditional white Kandora, officially
sanctioned the Loss and Damage Fund this past November in an auditorium
surrounded by hundreds of world leaders, the general feeling was that of a great
victory. The financial mechanism promises to assist countries most impacted by
climate change, and everywhere...
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Climate
GOP protests to LNG halt 🌿 Category six hurricanes 🌿 Climate denier school 🌿 IRA’s success
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This week’s newsletter is getting to you a bit later than usual, and you can
blame Carnaval for that. As a...
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Climate
PODCAST: COP 28 – The Ups and Downs of a Climate Conference Hosted by a Petrostate
On this episode of OptOutcast, Climate Editor Amanda Magnani brings you inside
COP 28, the United Nations' yearly climate conference, which took place last
year in Dubai from Nov. 30-Dec. 13. The event was the largest one to date, with
an attendance of nearly 100,000 people. On the one hand, it was marked by
exciting announcements, such...
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Climate
Biden’s LNG Freeze 🌿 What Big Oil Knew 🌿 Mining Near the Grand Canyon
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Climate
Greenhushing 🌿 Endangered Species Act 🌿 Methane Emissions Fee
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Climate
🌿 2023 Climate Roundup 🌿
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editor. After a short holiday break, I’m back with the most important climate
news from our network – always through decolonial lenses. ✨🌿
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First things first, I wish you all an amazing 2024! May this be the year the
collapse of Big Oil...
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Climate
🌿Key concepts to understand COP28🌿
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I’m Amanda Magnani, a Brazilian (photo)journalist and OptOut News’ climate
editor. COP28 started yesterday in Dubai, here are some key concepts you must
understand to follow any coverage of the most important climate event of the
year.
And don’t forget that I am already in Dubai, and I will share updates on our
Instagram...
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4 min read
Climate
World doubles down on fossil fuels 🌿 Governments are world’s biggest oil and gas producers 🌿 Egypt after COP 27
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Climate
An LNG Project Threatens a UNESCO Biosphere in Canada
On this episode of OptOutcast, I sit down with Nick Cunningham, Gas Outlook’s
North American correspondent, to talk about Howe Sound, a UNESCO biosphere
reserve in British Columbia that is being threatened by a liquified natural gas
(LNG) initiative.
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Nick spent months Woodfibre LNG how it is affecting...
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Climate
Earth’s unfitness for human life 🌿 Carbon offsets’ greenwashing 🌿 COP28’s relevance
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U.S. hydrogen hubs 🌿 Big Oil getting bigger 🌿 Native American Journalism
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Climate
Indigenous People’s Day 🌿 NYC Unprepared for Climate Disasters 🌿 American Climate Corps
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Originals
Indigenous Women March for Their Rights in Brazil
This piece was done in collaboration with Yes! sound of singing and maracas echoes from all sides of the camp as groups of
women from all corners of Brazil approach the main tent, where they will gather
for the Third March of Indigenous Women. It is 8 a.m. and the already extremely
hot sun in Brasília, the country’s capital, highlights...
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Climate
Deadly flood in Libya 🌿 California sues Big Oil 🌿 Indigenous women around the world
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
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First things first: We are happy to congratulate The the three nominations from the Webster...
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Climate
Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida 🌿 CCS pipelines worry Louisianans 🌿 Antarctica’s impacts on climate change
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
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HURRICANE IDALIA STRIKES FLORIDA 🌿 CCS PIPELINES WORRY LOUISIANANS 🌿...
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Climate
Historic climate win in Montana 🌿 Wildfires in Hawaii 🌿 End to oil drilling in part of Ecuador’s Amazon
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
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Climate
Health emergency from extreme heat 🌿 Fossil fuel donations for climate denialism 🌿 Amazon Rainforest Summit
Looking at the world’s biggest crisis through a decolonial lens.
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I’m Amanda Magnani, a Brazilian (photo)journalist and OptOut News’ climate
editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
network—with an extra serving of decolonial perspectives. ✨🌿
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Climate
PODCAST 🌿 How to Protect Our Planet: Learning From Indigenous Communities in Brazil
This episode is supported in part by the Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund from
the Pulitzer Center.
On this episode of OptOutcast, I sit down with our LGBTQ+ Editor, Liana to talk about sustainable
initiatives developed by Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon and what
we all have to learn from them in terms of public policies...
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1 min read
Climate
U.S.–China Climate Talks 🌿 Raising fees for oil drilling 🌿 Water vulnerability in the Dominican Republic
Looking at the world’s biggest crisis through a decolonial lens.
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
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4 min read
Climate
All-time heat record 🌿 American energy insecurity 🌿 Heat impacts on Bangladesh
Looking at the world’s biggest crisis through a decolonial lens.
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
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We started...
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4 min read
Climate
Heat Waves, Power Shortages, and Drought in the U.S. 🌿 Brazil’s Oil Expansion
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
If you have been with us for a bit, you know I've spent the past two months in
the...
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Climate
Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy 🌿 Plastics Treaty 🌿 Brazil's 'Marco Temporal'
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DECARBONIZING THE U.S. ECONOMY, AND A GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY
In spite of...
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Climate
Decolonizing Climate Change with Amanda Magnani
I’m Amanda Magnani, a Brazilian (photo)journalist and OptOut News’ climate
editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
network—with an extra serving of decolonial perspectives. ✨🌿
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ELECTRICITY SHORTAGE RISKS AND FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYING ACROSS THE U.S.
With summer closing in
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4 min read
Climate
A Visit to Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon
I’m Amanda Magnani, a Brazilian (photo)journalist and OptOut News’ climate
editor. This week, our newsletter is a bit different, as I write to you from
Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, where I’m working on a series of
solution-based stories about local sustainability initiatives. ✨🌿
This week's newsletter was produced...
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Climate
Decolonizing Climate Change with Amanda Magnani
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editor. Every other week, I bring you the most important climate news from our
network—with an extra serving of decolonial perspectives. ✨🌿
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U.S. STEPS TOWARD BIG OIL ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Last...
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Climate
Decolonizing Climate Change with Amanda Magnani
Hi, Everyone!
I’m Amanda Magnani, a Brazilian journalist and photographer and the new climate
editor at OptOut News. From today on, I will carry out Cristian Salazar’s
mission of bringing you the most important climate news from our network—with a
few tweaks. ✨✨
Every other week, I will suggest stories to decolonize our way of thinking...
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