Chile pulled out of hosting the COP25 Climate Change Conference on Wednesday, following two weeks of protests in the hosting city of Santiago. The announcement throws preparations for the conference, scheduled for December, into disarray for the second time, after Brazil withdrew its request to host the 2019 conference late last year. It casts a […] Continue reading ->
Sounding a note of ever-increasing urgency, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told ministers gathered at a Global Preparatory Meeting for the UN Climate Action Summit, in Abu Dhabi that “we are in a battle for our lives” with regards to climate change, which is happening at an even faster pace that what top scientists […] Continue reading ->
The global community needs to reduce climate emissions by 45% by 2030 to avoid the most dire warming scenarios. But drastic action to confront the “climate emergency” would mean better health and more jobs, declared the UN’s top climate official, Patricia Espinosa, at Monday’s opening of the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB50), the warm-up to […] Continue reading ->
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