Mark Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard is the environment correspondent of The Nation magazine, the author of "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth" and "Earth Odyssey," among other books, and the executive director of Covering Climate Now.
- Mark Hertsgaard
- • November 15, 2021
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GLASGOW, Scotland — COP26 president Alok Sharma held back tears as he accepted India’s last-minute motion to weaken the summit’s pledge to “phase out” coal. Sharma had been saying for months that he wanted COP26 to “consign coal to…
- Categories: Climate Change
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- Mark Hertsgaard
- • November 10, 2021
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GLASGOW, Scotland — It’s an article of faith in United States political and media circles that American leadership is essential to global climate progress. That message was repeated Tuesday at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, as speaker of…
- Categories: Climate Change, US-UN Relations
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- Mark Hertsgaard
- • December 2, 2020
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“The way we are moving is a suicide,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in an interview on Monday, and humanity’s survival will be “impossible” without the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement and achieving “net zero” carbon emissions…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
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