Originally published on Sustainnovate. For 4 hours on the opening day of the World Future Energy Summit and Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, I attended a high-level event aimed at turning the ambitious goals of COP21, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into practical and innovative … [continued]
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban part of the COP21 meeting in Paris sewed up its last draft in the week just past. ADP delegates from every country expressed their views on the version they last officially considered in Bonn in October, patched as much as UN officials could amend … [continued]
Okay. So the UNFCCC/ADP (international group in charge of climate mitigation and adaptation) is meeting again this week in Bonn. As always, at the climate talks they’re trying to cobble together a treaty that will unite the world to forestall the grimmest of possible calamities for the human race. And … [continued]
As unprecedented storms, extinctions, and water, food, and energy wars continue to touch our world, warnings about destructive human-made climate change multiply and increase in stridency. At the United Nations in New York yesterday, some possible solutions were officially released. (VIDEO available here.) Experts from leading world research institutes convened … [continued]
