The British Government, as hosts of COP26, had an opportunity to show real climate leadership and start a just transition away from fossil fuels. But they just offered over 100 drilling licenses
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Decades of denial have to end: we need radical climate leadership in 2020
The next decade will define our collective future. We better not waste it. We have no time to waste. For we have wasted too much time already.
Climate Deniers Celebrate Boris Victory in the UK
The results of the UK election does not bode well for the climate. But we must remain strong.
Outrage as UN Climate Talks Kick Out Civil Society, Not the Polluters
“Instead of kicking out these polluters, the UNFCCC 25th Conferences of the Parties (COP25) kicked out the people. Instead of listening to our voices, they attempted to silence us.”
Week Two: UN Climate Talks Need to ‘Kick Polluters Out’ Now
It is time to kick the polluters out of the UN climate negotiations. They should have been kicked out decades ago. But it needs to happen now. Once and for all.
Despite warmest decade on record, we still act like “addicts blowing our carbon budget”
We’re blowing through our carbon budget the way an addict blows through cash. At a time when carbon dioxide pollution is higher than it’s ever been.
As COP opens, UN warns of “betrayal of generations to come,” unless we radically increase climate action
AntĂłnio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, opened this year’s climate change talks with a rousing speech, stating: “Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?”
Urgent need to reduce carbon emissions by 7 per cent a year, says UN
According to UNEP, collective ambition must increase more than fivefold over current levels to deliver the cuts needed over the next decade for the 1.5°C goal, or put another way, global greenhouse gas emissions need to fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030.
Big Polluters respond to Greta’s climate call with “woefully short” ambition
After the UN climate Summit, Andrew Steer, head of the World Resources Institute and a former World Bank official, said the Big Polluters fell “woefully short” of expectations. “Their lack of ambition stands in sharp contrast with the growing demand for action around the world.”
After UN Speech, Greta & Other Kids Launch Landmark Climate Lawsuit
Greta and 15 other young people have just filed what is being described as a “world-changing lawsuit” suing five of the world’s major carbon polluters for violating their rights as children.