The COP26 bureau and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have announced the postponement of the Bonn intersessional and COP26 climate negotiations to 2021.
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Press Release: Activists Launch Large Inflatable Balloon of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to protest Japanâs continued support for coal
Activists deployed a 3-meter-tall balloon depicting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerging from a bucket of coal to protest the Japanese governmentâs continued support for new coal-fired power projects.
âScience is not negotiable’: The Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Must Start Now
Affirming that âscience is not negotiableâ in the halls of a UN conference center and acting on that fact in oneâs own policy decisions can be two different things. What counts for the climate is action to manage a rapid and just transition off of fossil fuels.
Paris climate talks kick off with rhetoric, will action follow?
The COP21 climate negotiations in Paris opened on Monday with a flurry of activity, speeches, and announcements from some 150 world leaders gathered to kick things off. It’s hard to come away from a day like yesterday without feeling a tinge of hope continuing…that is, until the real negotiations begin. While many impressed with their calls for action … Read More
Oil Industry Set to Ignore âFinal Warningâ on Climate Change
The “clock is ticking”. “Little time left”. The “Starkest Warning Yet”. The “Final Warning”. Just four of the headlines from around the world of yesterday’s UN report on climate change.
Rio – 20
First the gloss from Rio. This was the UNâs largest ever conference with 45,300 delegates from more than 180 nations. The UN says it has obtained pledges worth $500 billion from governments and companies for projects aimed at reducing the strain on the planetâs resources. There are nearly 700 commitments from governments to supposedly cut … Read More
EU Commissioner Calls for End to Subsidies
Connie Hedegaard, the outspoken EU Commissioner for Climate Action, has lent her weight to the growing calls for ending fossil fuel subsidies. Earlier in the week, Oil Change International revealed that fossil fuel subsidies could be as high a $1 trillion. Oil Change has been working with others NGOs to make phasing out subsidies a … Read More
Greenwashing +20
If you open a copy of the Financial Times this morning, you will see a full page advert from the âFriends of Rio+20â with a message to the delegates at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. These “friends” say they are an assortment of big business, scientific and civil society leaders, but a quick glimpse … Read More
Universal energy access stressed at UN
Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the importance of making energy available to the poor as a foundation for combating poverty as world leaders gathered in New York this week at the Millennium Development Goal Summit. At a high-level event yesterday, the Secretary General said that it is lack of political will that is keeping … Read More
A complete mockery of forest protection
Anyone following the palm oil debate would not have been surprised by the findings of the BBCâs top investigative programme Panorama earlier in the week, which investigated the industry. Using GPS technology and satellite imaging, the BBC exposed how the palm oil giant Duta Palma Group is logging on both high conservation lands and deep … Read More