Category: 2020-Election_Key Through_Political_Action_MN

Each 2020 candidate — whether for the Presidency, the Senate or the House, whether incumbent or challenger, gets a climate score from zero to 100 for the voter to take into the voting booth. Use it to choose your candidates.

Just days after a grand jury’s decision to indict only one of the police officers involved in the shooting of Louisville woman Breonna Taylor sparked national outrage, a small but passionate group of young climate activists chanted her name at the statehouse Friday, saying systemic racism isn’t limited to the criminal justice system.

The world is burning outside my window and I’m stuck inside. But I can still push for change.

Student leaders proved age is trivial when taking actions on environmental issues at the first-ever virtual Youth Environmental Summit.

Last fall, 16 children from across the world, including Greta Thunberg, filed a formal communication with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Within the communication, the kids make the argument that their home nations — France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Turkey — haven’t done enough to adequately respond to climate change, and therefore haven’t protected their basic human rights. It’s been described in the press as everything from a petition to a lawsuit.

Alexandria Villaseñor, one of the founders of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, will speak.

For young climate activists in the United States, staying home because of the pandemic does not mean staying silent, with plans gathering pace across the country to make their voices heard in November’s elections.

For many young people, leveraging online platforms is nothing new.

A group of young conservatives has urged the United States to rebuild the post-pandemic economy with clean energy to help combat climate change, joining the ranks of Republicans who say they are unhappy with U.S. efforts to slow global warming.

The climate strikers who captivated the world during last year’s Global Climate Strike haven’t gone anywhere. They’re still here, organizing online for action on climate change even in the midst of a global pandemic. And now, they’re sharing their personal stories with the world.  Today, we begin publishing a series of stories by young strikers […]