• Party Calls Upon State and Local Governments to Join the Trump Resistance

For Earth Day, the Green Party of the United States condemned the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on the environment, saying that it threatened humanity’s future on the planet. The Greens said it was critical that Governors, state and local legislators, Attorney Generals, law firms, and civil society commit to actively resist Trump’s denial of climate change and his efforts to enact authoritarian rule.

With a new report by Dr. James Hansen showing that global warming is accelerating faster than scientists had predicted, the Green Party condemned Donald Trump’s efforts to kill any action to slow climate change and calls on Congress and states to do that same.

In his first two weeks back in the White House, Trump repudiated the Paris Climate accords, appointed climate deniers and fossil fuel interests to run the nation’s environmental and energy programs, gave a green light to expand greenhouse gas emissions, and blocked funding for renewable energy.

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the US hosted a a webinar on November 11 devoted to the recent COP on biodiversity and the COP on climate that begins on the 11th.

The latest climate report issued by the UN makes it clear that even the words crisis and emergency are insufficient now. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said it himself: We are plunging “headlong into climate disaster.”

For years, experts told us a +1.5°C increase from pre-industrial levels would be catastrophic – the point of no return that had to be avoided at all costs.

This week is the U.N. Climate Summit in New York, where world leaders, diplomats, and experts get together to talk about global climate policy.

But people are increasingly fed up with “solutions” that amount to pouring a cupful of water on a raging wildfire (not unlike the dozens of major wildfires currently burning across the U.S.).

Ahead of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s energy summit in Syracuse on September 5, the Green Party of New York urged state lawmakers to speed up the transition to zero emissions and 100% clean renewable energy. Hochul convened the summit after admitting that the state was failing to meet its clean energy goals, prompting business leaders to urge her to weaken the climate laws.

December 12, 2023 - The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) said that COP28, which is now past the initial deadline to finish, would be an abject failure if it did not expressly call for a phaseout of fossil fuels. The Greens also said that the proposed funding to assist the developing world in dealing with the dangers of climate change driven by the industrial nations was grossly inadequate.

"COP28 has demonstrated the utter lack of urgency and ambition needed to address the climate crisis," said Green Party EcoAction Committee Co Chair Mark Dunlea. "While the 'agreement' on loss and damage is a small step, it is a drop in the bucket compared to what is truly needed to support vulnerable communities."

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the U.S. held a forum on Monday, December 11 to provide an update on COP28.

By Alex Casper (they/them)
Green Party of Pennsylvania

On Sunday, September 17, 75,000 people marched across New York City to End Fossil Fuels. Two Green Party candidates seeking the nomination for President of the U.S. were in New York marching as VIP’s, and I was lucky enough to have my photo taken next to them.