The youth are rising, the climate rebellion is growing. Despite Trump, there are reasons to be cheerful for 2019. So thank you Greta and all the other young climate activists out there.
UN Climate Talks
UN climate talks “failed to align ambitions with science”
“My biggest concern is that the UN talks failed to align ambitions with science. We continue to follow a path that will take us to a very dangerous 3-4C warmer world within this century.”
UN head warns it is not only “immoral but suicidal” if we don’t act now on climate
Just as the people of the Niger Delta have been demanding justice from Shell for decades, many of us have been demanding climate justice for decades too. But the hour glass has nearly run dry. The time to act is now. We cannot allow another COP to pass with just empty promises.
As US Undermines UN Climate Talks, Polar Regions Warm & Weep
As the US and other big polluters are accused of deliberately undermining the UN climate talks and promoting climate denial, there are further grave warnings from the Arctic and Antarctic, regarding the impact that climate change is having on our polar regions.
US, Russia, Saudi Arabia & Kuwait “wilfully ignorant & grossly negligent” at UN climate talks
Anyone new walking into a climate conference would be shocked at how simple words get argued upon for hours with the climate wreckers’ simple task of trying to increase the uncertainty of the science in the text or reduce the urgency of our coming climate catastrophe.
“Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take responsibility”
“Why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future?”
As the World Warms, King Coal Rules the UN Climate Talks
It is that time of year again, when the annual international UN climate negotiations take place. This year, the Conference of the Parties – or COP for short – is happening in Katowice, in Poland. It starts next week.
COP23: Trump’s “Clean Fossil Fuels” Panel Dismissed as “Promoting Tobacco at a Cancer Summit”
Donald Trump’s attempts to promote so called “false solutions” at the UN climate conference in Bonn backfired badly yesterday, with Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, arguing that “promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit.”
“Giant Leap Backwards” as Fossil Fuel Emissions Reach Record High
New research published today and presented at the UN climate talks in Bonn, predicts that following three years of almost no growth, the burning of fossil fuels will reach a record high this year.
Scientists Argue Gas Isn’t “Green” & Call for Urgent Phase Out Across EU
New scientific research argues that gas is not a bridge fuel to a clean energy future and that the methane emissions from gas have been severely underestimated.