Good News from WMO: Power Sector Emissions May Have Peaked
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) just released its latest annual report the State of the Global Climate 2022, revealing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) on the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere, painting a dire picture of droughts, floods and...
Africa Says “NIMBY” to Solar Geoengineering
Africa’s climate negotiators are being pressured to shield their countries from a looming global heating endgame by utilizing interventions like solar geoengineering , a process that either shields sun rays or redirects sunlight away from the planet. In a New York...
Greenpeace USA Defeats $100 Million Lawsuit
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a seven-year lawsuit against Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International brought by Resolute Forest Products. After Greenpeace exposed Resolute’s unsustainable forestry practices, the...
UNGA Brings Climate Change to The Hague
The United Nations General Assembly voted last month to engage the International Court of Justice at The Hague in weighing in on the responsibility of high-emitting countries to engage in actions to address climate change. The resolution was sponsored by Vanuatu, one...
2022: Lula and the Rainforest
The reelection of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil was one of the most exciting and hopeful happenings in the world of climate change in 2022. Lula ran on a platform that promised to reign in miners, land grabbers, and illegal loggers who are rapidly...
An Overview of 2022 – on the Highway to Climate Hell
As 2022 draws to a close, we are left with chilling evidence that global warming is a force unlike any we have ever encountered. And we are not in any way manning our battle stations with the tools to battle it. In a year that saw some victories — the passage of the...
COP27 Concludes: Pulse of 1.5 “Remains on Life Support”
As the COP27 UNFCCC climate talks were gaveled to completion in the early hours of Sunday morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the failure to mention the necessary phase out of fossil fuels in the concluding document marked a huge win for the industry and for oil...
Ukrainian Diplomats @COP17: It’s an Ecocide
Two dozen Ukrainian officials in attendance at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheihk, Egypt, are making the case that the Russian invasion of their country is resulting in a humanitarian as well as an environmental crisis. “This is not simply a war, this is state terrorism and it...
Loss and Damage Wins Spot on Official COP27 Agenda
Despite longstanding objections from the US and the UK, negotiators for the first time have agreed to include loss and damage funding on the official agenda here at COP27 on the first day of the climate talks. As the UNFCCC meeting began today in Sharm-el-Sheik,...
What’s on the Agenda for COP27
Upwards of 35,000 will be in attendance in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, November 6-18 for the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), a gathering of NGOs, activists, world leaders, negotiators, and journalists. The 193 participating countries have signed on to one or more...