Dispatches on climate action and accountability during this decisive decade.

Journalism that conveys the truth about the climate crisis – and covers actions to address it and efforts to hold accountable the powerful interests that are fueling the fire.

“Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency,” scientists have warned. “Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled,” they explain, noting that the situation is one “never before encountered in the annals of human existence.” Yet business as usual continues, as much of the world’s governments, business leaders, and media fail to treat this emergency as the five-alarm fire that it is.

This decade up to 2030 has been called “critical” and “decisive” for action to tackle the climate emergency. Christiana Figueres, former head of the UN Climate Change secretariat and an architect of the Paris Climate Agreement, said this is a “decisive decade for the future of humanity and the planet.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that limiting warming to 1.5°C requires roughly halving greenhouse emissions by 2030, a goal that tragically now seems out of reach. Still, the IPCC, the world’s foremost body of climate scientists, is clear that the “time for action is now.”

One Earth Now aims to convey this urgency with its title, which also recognizes that there is only one Earth that all of humanity and all living beings collectively call home.

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