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In the months leading to the December 2015 Paris Climate Conference, representatives of global institutional investors and multinational corporations made

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2016-05-31 Sean Sweeney

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground

Contested Futures: Labor After Keystone XL by Sean Sweeney The extraordinary story of the political battle over the Keystone XL

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2015-12-17 Sean Sweeney

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground

Corbyn’s Class Act is a Climate Game Changer On September 12, 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected the leader of the

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2015-12-17 Sean Sweeney

Trade Unions and Climate Change: A Conversation with Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corby (Video)

Sean Sweeney was in Paris during COP21 where Unions are fighting for a reference in the final agreement to “a just

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2015-06-09 Jeremy Brecher

Protecting the Future: A Strategic Proposal to Stop Climate Change

The weekend of September 21, 2014, people in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand global reductions in the greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions that are generating climate catastrophe. An estimated 40,000 marched in London; 30,000 in Melbourne; 25,000 in Paris. Some 400,000 joined the People’s Climate March through the center of New York City. The climate protection movement had come a long way since 2006, when a march of 1,000 through Burlington, Vermont proved to be the largest climate protest in American history.

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2015-06-08 Sean Sweeney

Green Capitalism Won’t Work

For the last 20 years, unions in the U.S. and internationally have generally accepted the dominant discourse on climate policy, one that is grounded in assumptions that private markets will lead the “green transition,” reduce emissions, and stabilize the climate over the longer term. Indeed, unions began attending the climate negotiations convened by the UN in the early 1990s, a time when the “triumph of the market” went unchallenged and the climate debate was awash with neoliberal ideas. Unions therefore focused on articulating the need for “Just Transition” policies.