This year's UN climate conference offered some reason to celebrate. But the growing clout of the 'carbon capture' industry is hindering urgent efforts to clamp down on fossil fuels.
Image by Xavier Balderas Cejudo. This has become, sadly, a yearly ritual by now. The world’s governments gather together to discuss what should be done about global warming, and finish their time together by issuing statements of concern while doing little concrete to actually solve the problem. An...
Fossil fuel interests have taken over climate talks. The acronym COP for “Conference of the Parties” should be changed to “Continue Oil Production.” Eighteen of the twenty companies that sponsored UN climate talks at the make-believe Egyptian resort Sharm El-Sheikh either directly support or partne...
The COP27 summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh made history when developing... The post COP27: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Rather than a bloated global talking shop, we need something smaller, leaner and fully focused on the crisis at handBill McGuire is Prof Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCLIn the end, the recent shenanigans at the Cop27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh at least ended up making modest progres...
This month’s environmental summit opened as our planet wilts under the impact of climate crisis. Here we examine five key areas and assess what success – if any – was achieved in EgyptA key Cop27 goal was to strengthen emission pledges made at last year’s climate summit in Glasgow. These are needed t...
“As we race towards climate breakdown, once again we are seeing rich countries trying to evade their responsibility to step up and do their fair share of climate action,” one activist said as talks spilled into overtime.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt—The COP27 climate conference in Egypt may be remembered as the moment when the world gave up on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the most ambitious goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Late Friday, the last scheduled day of the climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh...
Document will provide basis for negotiations over coming days and is likely to be significantly reworkedCop27 live – latest news updatesThe UN climate agency has published a first draft on Thursday of what could be the overarching agreement from the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt However, much of th...
“This partnership is nothing but a green light for eight more years of forest destruction, with little respect for the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities,” said one campaigner.
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference uses the same PR firm as oil companies under pressure to pay for global warming costs. The post Playing Both Sides Now at Upcoming Global Climate Talks appeared first on .
Egypt is preparing to host world leaders next month at the U.N.’s annual climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, a move that prominent environmentalist and author Naomi Klein calls “greenwashing.” While the government embraces superficial causes to mitigate climate change such as recycling or solar panels...
“It will be a fundamental mistake if diplomats go to COP27 thinking they need to go softly on human rights in order to make progress in the climate talks,” warned HRW's Richard Pearshouse.