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The True Importance of COP28: It’s In Our Hands Now

TAKING THE INITIATIVE: Carl Pope’s Blog December 17th, 2023 San Francisco, CA

Common sense prevailed at the last COP28 moment, with the symbolic agreement to commit the world to moving beyond fossil fuels (as it had been doing rather steadily during the conference). One importance of the agreement is that future COP’s can start out […]

COP 28: ON THE VERGE OF MAJOR PROGRESS, BUT HEADED FOR THE ROCKS

TAKING THE INITIATIVE: Carl Pope’s Blog

December 11, 2023 San Francisco, CA

As we head into its final week, COP28 risks running aground, distracted by disagreements – if important ones – over strategy in the 2040’s. Are we aiming to phase out fossil fuels or emissions from those fuels instead. What does the climate end […]

How we’re keeping score

reprinted from Bloomberg Green – Bloomberg

By Victoria Cuming

With tens of thousands of delegates planning to attend this year’s UN climate summit in Dubai, there’s expected to be a flood of new pledges, projects and initiatives announced. It’ll be easy to lose focus on the most important task at hand: Nearly 200 countries have […]

COP28: Smooth start

COP28: UN Climate Talks Have a Surprisingly Smooth Start reprinted from COP28: UN Climate Talks Have a Surprisingly Smooth Start – Bloomberg Notes from the ground By John Ainger

The COP28 climate summit could have hardly had a better start.

Delegates from nearly 200 countries agreed on details for […]

A Deal to Move Away From Fossil Fuels!

CAN COP28 POLICE THE CLIMATE?

Martin Wahl

After heated debate about how far the conference would go asking for the reduction of fossil fuel production and use, the 197 participating countries agreed in overtime to call for “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems” by 2050. While smaller island nations say the deal does […]