by Scott Atnip | Jan 23, 2025 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Weekly Witness
This week, we are excited to welcome Texas Impact’s Climate Action Fellow, Rev. Dr. Becca Edwards, to talk about the President’s recent executive action, once again, removing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement. There has been a lot happening in the last two...
by Becca Edwards | Jan 22, 2025 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
As promised, just hours after President Trump took office he signed an order to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is the agreement reached at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris in 2015, which set a goal of limiting...
by Kat Karbach | Dec 30, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
Welcome back to our series – This is What a Lobbyist Looks Like – where I give you a peak behind the curtain at the work our Lobby Team is doing to prepare for the upcoming Legisslative Session. In this week’s episode, I am joined by Texas...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 18, 2024 | Climate Justice, COP27, Creation Care, Faith Communities, Resources, Texas Climate & Energy
It’s hard for some communities to imagine that solar power could even be an option. But with these rebates and possibilities through the Inflation Reduction Act, there might be more opportunity here than they would expect. Rev. Garrett Vickrey Sr. Pastor,...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 3, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts, Spotlight
Near the end of last year’s COP in Dubai, UAE, the African nations together wrote a letter to the COP presidency lamenting the lack of urgent language around transitioning away from fossil fuels in the final version of the Stocktake document. The letter said...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 2, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
Two major concerns for what seemed like everybody at this year’s COP were what the US would be willing to pledge towards the new climate finance goal and what the US could reasonably promise with regard to climate action given the upcoming change in presidential...
