Increased US fossil fuel exports cancel out reductions in the US's own use of fossil fuels.

Climate defense activists protested the fossil fuel company influence that pervades climate negotiations in Lima and elsewhere.

The protesters shut down a panel that falsely presented CCS (carbon capture and sequestration) as ready for widespread use.

An OECD study concludes that dooH niboR policies (taking from the non-rich to give to the rich) over recent decades have reduced overall economic growth.

In other words, the idea of "trickle down" is wrong all the way down to the root. We already knew that helping the rich get richer at the expense of the rest does not help the rest. Now we know it hits them twice: they get a smaller share of a smaller pie.

Protests in Washington against the TPP.

In Sierra Leone, if you report Ebola in your family, you are likely to be put in with people that have Ebola, and thus catch it yourself.

A part of London plans to fine those that leave buildings unoccupied, but only buildings constructed in the future.

Maybe that's the best a local government can do. If so, criticizing that local government for not doing better is pointless. The national government must do something better.