Tag: COP
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COP28: We Need to Challenge the Power of Fossil Fuel Capitalism
Back in May, the World Meteorological Organization reported there was a 66% likelihood of exceeding the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027. On … Keep reading »
Financing the 30×30 Agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature Swaps Should be Rejected
1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP-15, the post-2020 framework will likely endorse the target of declaring 30% of the world’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. … Keep reading »
Drought, Heatwave and Revolution
Global warming, extreme severity of drought in Europe, heatwaves, snowball effect (or cascading reactions) among all these crisis factors… Risk of sudden changes in ocean circulation with incalculable consequences… This … Keep reading »
COP27: Still Fiddling While the World Burns
COP 27, which will meet from the 6th – 18th November 2022, unfolds against a backdrop of growing climate chaos and ecological degradation. As this latest Conference of the Parties … Keep reading »
Climate Mobilization in View of the COP26
1. Disasters, of which extreme weather events linked to climate change are the main cause, have doubled in 20 years, killing more than 1.2 million people worldwide since 2000. Record … Keep reading »
Trade Unions and Climate Change
The Need for a Programmatic Shift Climate change is a trade union issue. That is what we increasingly, and rightly, have been told by international trade union leaders over the last … Keep reading »
When “Green” Doesn’t “Grow”
Facing Up to the Failures of Profit-Driven Climate Policy The onslaught of extreme weather and the increasingly stark scientific assessment leave no doubt that we face an ecological and civilizational emergency. … Keep reading »
COP24: No Response to the Crisis
Why the Outcome of Katowice is Far From Sufficient The climate crisis is looming large and threatens to go beyond our capabilities. In addition, COP24 at Katowice has decided on a … Keep reading »
Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Thinking in siloes about the climate and about our planet’s people puts us at risk of increasing climate disruption and massive loss of life. This year the climate meeting, COP24, … Keep reading »
The Road Away from Fossil Fuels
President Andrzej Duda’s authoritarian government can expect a rough political ride in December, when politicians, diplomats and campaigners stream into Katowice, Poland, for the next UN summit on climate change … Keep reading »
COP23: From the Gap to the Precipice
The Twenty-Third Conference of the Parties Signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate has just concluded in Bonn, Germany. It was an intermediate meeting between COP21 in Paris in 2015 and COP24 in Katowice (Poland) in 2018. Keep reading »
Copping Out at COP23, Avoidance and Possibility in a Burning World
During the recent COP23 summit in Bonn, a taxi driver provided a clear summary. Asked what he thought of COP 23, he replied “the climate is in crisis, but here, … Keep reading »