This article was published in The Beam #7 — Subscribe now for more on the topic. By Gisa Holzhausen, Lisa Keppler and Dr. Christine Wörlen, Arepo Consult The climate scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that after 2011, only 1,000 Gigatons of CO2 should be emitted in total … [continued]
The 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as COP24, got underway on Sunday in Katowice, Poland, to something of a rocky start, despite a call from previous COP Presidents to “send an unequivocal message … for enhanced ambition by 2020 that puts the world on a trajectory compatible with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.”
In Strasbourg, France, yesterday, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the President of the UN’s climate group (COP 21), Ségolène Royal, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker witnessed the European parliament’s signed approval of the ratification of the Paris Agreement. 191 nations came to the agreement, which globalizes action on … [continued]
This week, the Washington Post reported a widening 80-mile crack threatening one of Antarctica’s biggest ice shelves. A large chunk of Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf, may break off in the coming years. Of course, the probable loss of Larsen C is a terrifying reminder that climate change is … [continued]
Now that Americans are finally talking about climate change, media producers seem to salivate at every whisper of earth science news. The scarier, the better. But not so with Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Climate Change… and are afraid to ask. Here’s the video. It’s a deceptively little … [continued]
In the last meeting of Wednesday, December 9, the Comité de Paris (Paris Committee) of the COP21 climate conference reconvened to register the reactions of conference parties to the draft agreement Laurent Fabius presented at 9 am today. Fabius opened by proposing that after Comité de Paris session closes, parties … [continued]
Laurent Fabius, COP21 president and France’s foreign minister, has just released version 1 of a draft text on COP21 agenda item 4 (b)—the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17) at 3:00PM GMT. Read the text here. Fabius characterized the current situation thus: “We’ve made progress but still a lot … [continued]
Some of the best news of 2015 about our ability to resist and adapt to climate change is the powerful increase in numbers of subregional and panregional governments, businesses, and cities taking action to speed the necessary transition to renewable energy. Part of the Lima-Paris Action Agenda, Energy Day at … [continued]
The 12th part of the second session of the COP21 Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-12) convened a day early. Sunday evening, November 29, 2015, saw the first Paris session of the ADP, which is the body mainly responsible for forging a unanimous … [continued]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has presented some thoughts on why he cares so much about the climate issue: “First, like any grandfather, I want my grandchildren to enjoy the beauty and bounty of a healthy planet. And like any human being, it grieves me to see that floods, droughts, and … [continued]
