cop25
-
UN Cancels In-Person Preliminary Meetings For Climate Summit Due To Coronavirus
Due to mounting coronavirus concerns, the United Nations announced Friday that it’s cancelling in-person meetings in Bonn, Germany and elsewhere through the end of April. These meetings were intended to prepare for November’s global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, predicted to be the most important round of climate negotiations since 2015’s Paris accord.
-
UN Climate Summit Ends With A Whimper
The longest global climate conference in its 25-year history came to an end Sunday after negotiations ran nearly two days over its initial deadline. Unfortunately, talks in Madrid went about as well as they do every year at the United Nation’s (UN) historically ineffective summit: There was a lot of finger-pointing, not a lot of…
-
‘We No Longer Have Time:’ Greta Thunberg Schools The World At UN Climate Talks
international climate talks ongoing in Madrid Wednesday and didn’t go on about personal stories or struggles. Instead, she stuck to the science”and still managed to make me choke up.
-
Poor Countries Are Hit Worst By Extreme Weather, But No One Is Safe
If you asked me to guess the top three countries impacted by the climate crisis, I’d probably choose three countries in the Global South. I might guess the Philippines because it’s seen such bad typhoons in recent years. Maybe I’d say Uganda because it’s had such awful drought seasons, or Yemen because its water shortages…