Why the Glasgow Declaration on Forests isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Tag: UNFCCC
“Tomorrow it will be too late to do what we should have done a long time ago”
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change came out of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It has been an abject failure in terms of stopping climate breakdown.
“Developed countries want to wipe out history”: Meena Raman, Friends of the Earth Malaysia
Friends of the Earth International held a press conference at the COP24 UN climate meeting in Katowice earlier today. Last year, at COP23 in Bonn, Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth Malaysia said, “We come every year to the COP feeling like a broken record.”
The IPCC’s climate change report: “Negative emissions” and business as usual
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report this week on the impacts of 1.5°C global warming. The report looks at “related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty”.
New UNFCCC video “Keep calm and offset”. Or how we will lose the fight against climate chaos
The UNFCCC recently released a video titled “Keep calm and offset”. The basic premise is that we don’t need to stop driving, flying, or eating meat. We just need to buy carbon credits.