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Global Commission on the Economy and Climate
Senior Advisor to the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and key author of the Commission's "New Climate Economy" Report
PROFILE
Michael Jacobs
Guest
FROM Michael Jacobs
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Combating Climate Change: Activism and the Call for Actual Action Hundreds of thousands of protestors flooded the streets of Manhattan yesterday to demand action from heads of state at tomorrow’s Climate Summit at the United Nations. Today on Wall Street, protesters focused on the role of financial institutions.
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How was the trip? President Trump's travels got less fun as he went from the Middle East to Europe.
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White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.