Climate Clock Makes Headlines Around the World.
24th July 2024
Fast Company
The climate clock is running out. The next U.S. president will determine how quickly
During Climate Emergency Day 2024, the Climate Clock acted as a reminder that the world’s carbon budget is running out ahead of the US presidential elections.
22nd July 2024
Good Morning Britain Broadcast coverage
Laura Tobin presents the weather forecast on Good Morning Britain on the morning of Climate Emergency Day.
28th JULY, 2024 | EnviroNews Nigeria
Climate Clock: Activists demand an end to fossil fuel
As the Climate Clock ticks down below five years, signalling that there is little time left to keep global temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius, activists in Nigeria, including young people, journalists, environmentalists, and social rights campaigners, have called on the government to phase out the use of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy to address the negative impacts of climate change.
22nd July 2024 | Spectrum News NY1
Less than five years left on Climate Clock
Gan Golan, co-founder of Climate Clock in Union Square, and City Councilmember Sandy Nurse joined “Live at Ten” on Monday to discuss what can be done in the time left.
22nd Sept 2023 | USA TODAY
New york climate week
Gen Zers turn up the heat on President Biden. They want climate action, not words
4th Sept, 2024 | ENVIRONMENTAL WATCH MAGAZINE
We stand in solidarity with Africa Climate Summit’s theme – Climate Clock
As leaders across the continent and beyond meet at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, to deliberate on the region’s needs in wake of a changing climate, the Climate Clock group has said that it stands in solidarity with the Summit’s theme, which is: “Driving green growth and finance solutions for Africa and the world”.
22nd July 2023
Christ the Redeemer lights up with climate clock
To mark Climate Emergency Day 2023, the climate clock countdown was projected over the Christ the Redeemer statue and activists wore shirts calling for governments and corporations to meet the climate deadline.
22nd July 2023
Time is running out on the Climate Clock
The world has less than six years left to hit crucial global climate goals, according to the clock.
22nd JULY, 20223
Okyeame Kwame presents climate clock to the ambassador of UAE ahead of COP 28
To mark Climate Emergency Day, Okyeame Kwame organised approx 500 kids to walk from Accra Metropolitan Assembly to Ghana’s Parliament to call for more ambition around climate justice.
27th Jul, 2023
Public Pension Funds Have Lost Billions on Their Fossil Fuel Investments
The Climate Clock’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Lifeline featurey the 1591 institutions representing more than $40.51 trillion in assets committed to some level of divestment, as tracked in the Global Divestment Database.
28th JuN, 2023
King Charles unveils climate countdown clock at London summit
The Climate Clock at Picadilly Square in London, UK.
15th May, 2023
My Green Pod
Climate Anxiety Hotline added to Climate Clocks Worldwide for Mental Health Awareness Week
April 23, 2023
India Sets World Record With The World’s Largest Global Climate Clock Assembly Event
The Climate Clock partnered up with Energy Swaraj to host an event in New Delhi, India, that built over 550 Climate Clocks in one day - a new world record.
13th Oct, 2022
Africa Youth Connekt, Rwanda
“Our voices can only be heard by you, and not by any other person. We depend on you.”
At Africa’s largest youth summit, Youth Connekt Africa, 16-year-old climate activist Rahmina Paulette from Kenya, delivered the Climate Clock to the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and highlighted Climate Clock’s newest Loss & Damage Lifeline.
31st Aug, 2022
Africa Climate Week, Gabon
Climate Clock delegate, portia adu-mensah, highlighting the new Loss And Damage lifeline
6th Oct, 2022
“But as the now-famous Climate Clock tells us, time is running out.”
Elle
A profile of Greta Thunberg.
22nd July, 2022
Climate Emergency Day 2022
“TODAY, for the first time, the clock will go under 7 years”
GOOD MORNING BRITAIN
Climate Clock gifted Laura Tobin of Good Morning Britain a Climate Clock to use on her live TV climate reporting.
18th Aug, 2022
As Climate Change Deadline Approaches, Every Minute Counts to Urge Action
MS MAGAZINE
An op ed written by Climate Clock’s Becca Richie for Ms Magazine.
July 28, 2022
“Climate Clock Seek Increased Awareness To Achieve SDG Target On Climate Change”
ABUJA PRESS
26th July, 2022
“Activists call for immediate action as Climate Clock counts down”
Korea herald
Climate Emergency Day marked by the Korea Herald with photography of the monumental Clock in Korea counting down to 6 years.
21st April, 2022
Climate Clock founders interviewed on ny1 news
Climate Clock gifted NY1 News a Climate Clock on live TV to use in all future climate reporting on their daily Climate Check segment.
21st April, 2022
“80-foot Climate Clock sounds alarm on emissions above New York City for Earth Day”
MSN NEWS
For Earth Week 2022, Climate Clock updated the messaging on the big clock in NYC to shine a spotlight on some of the local climate campaigns affecting New York.
19th March 2022
‘Don’t look up’ director adam mckay at l.a. protest at city national bank
Adam McKay requested a Climate Clock to protest one of the “dirty banks” funding the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, a fossil fuel pipeline that would contribute to Climate Change and bulldoze through Wet’suwet’en tribal lands.
February 28, 2022
“It's a universal symbol for urgency.”
On the 28th of February, the day of the IPCC Report release, Climate Clock launched it’s first London'-based clock at the Design Museum. This exact clock was once mounted on top of a car that took to the streets of Cop26 in Glasgow to spread the word that the world must #ActInTime, and is now mounted on a museum wall in London.
FRONT PAGE OF THE GUARDIAN.
Climate Clock Global Ambassador Jerome Ringo holds up portable climate clock in the middle of the COP26 Blue Zone, landing the #ActInTime message on the front page of The Guardian. All throughout the COP, the clock and its call for urgent climate action has appeared in the streets, on stages, and in the news — including EuroNews, The Guardian's Science Weekly, Modern Ghana, and much, much, more. Full media round-up coming soon.
November 10, 2021.
November 9, 2021 — Glasgow
GOVERNOR INSLEE RECEIVES A CLIMATE CLOCK AT cop26
October 11, 2021
London Evening Standard
'Climate Clock celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ contribution to combatting climate change’
“Land stewarded by Indigenous People is essential to preserving biodiversity and removing carbon from the atmosphere so as to reduce the effects of climate change.”
— Xiye Bastida, 19-year-old Indigenous climate justice activist, member of the Otomi-Toltec people
September 20, 2021
'Climate Clock' Shows Rich Nations Still Owe $90 Billion a Year to Global Green Fund.
On the opening day of Climate Week, and the one-year anniversary of its headline-grabbing launch, the Climate Clock in New York’s Union Square adjusted its deadline to conform with the latest data from the IPCC Report, and added a new “Lifeline” measuring progress on global climate finance for developing countries.
August 12, 2021
Ghana: Gov’t Officials, youth activists and music icons unite to launch climate clock campaign.
In the wake of a shocking UN Climate Change report, Ghanaian activists and officials use the Climate Clock to urge President Addo of Ghana and all world leaders to #ActInTime.
June 10, 2021
THE KOREA Herald
Ban ki-moon & president MOON JAE-IN address “we face the climate clock” Forum
“We are thrilled to welcome the Climate Clock initiative to Glasgow. It will be a distinct feature in the city, running every night until the beginning of the COP summit in November."
—Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken
“Our elected representatives must meet the target and timeline on this Clock.”
—Jerome Foster, climate-striker and youngest member of White House Environmental Justice Advisory
Washington Post:
“A new digital clock tells how long the world has left to act”
At 1.5M likes, the most popular Instagram post in the history of the Washington Post.
September 21, 2020
guerrilla projection:
A countdown of earth’s carbon budget appears high on a building face in downtown Manhattan.
December, 2019