Last month’s COP26 climate summit generated many pledges and declarations that gained international headlines, but one in particular marks a turning point—the first global pledge to accelerate the ...
“The question that needs to be asked is, how do we make the economy serve society? How do we make the economy serve nature? How do we change the economy from that extractive, consumptive model that we ...
Across a quarter century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest ...
While many nations came together in Glasgow to discuss how to combat climate change, extreme weather did not stop back in their homelands. Each day, leaders spoke about the impact that rising global ...
“The Conference of the Profiteers” is how some Black, Brown, and Indigenous environmental justice activists have described the 26 th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, the United Nations Climate ...
The U.N. climate summit ended with calls on governments to return next year with tougher pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Nations made new pledges on methane gas pollution, deforestation, ...
The Global Methane Pledge (GMP) was one of the few headline commitments announced at COP26. The response to the GMP indicates that tackling methane emissions is now firmly on the agenda for the ...
At the opening of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, US President Joe Biden called the climate crisis an “existential threat to human existence as we know it.” “So let this be the moment that we answer ...
Media outlets around the world have been giving their verdict on the COP26 deal, an agreement struck Saturday night which tries to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Nearly 200 countries ...
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International pledge to fund forest rights exceeds target, but direct funding remains low
By Aimee Gabay Funders of the $1.7 billion pledge to support Indigenous peoples and local communities’ land rights, announced ...
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It may be Arbor Day, but it’s generally a tough time to be a tree lover. That’s according to the latest edition of The World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Review, which found that millions of ...
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