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...
by Scott Atnip | Nov 20, 2024 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
This week we turn our attention to the other side of the globe as we welcome Texas Impact’s Climate Action Fellow, Rev. Dr. Becca Edwards to the program. Becca recently returned from the 29th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP), the global climate negotiations held...
by Bee Moorhead | Nov 19, 2024 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
There has been a lot of talk about methane recently. And it is happening all over the planet. Last Tuesday, there was a plenary at COP29 on “Methane and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases.” But that is not what I want to write about today. I want to write about what’s...
