Though one of the most frequent expression used in the world in 2019 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “climate emergency” has not resounded enough in the rooms of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Madrid (COP25).Read More
Different environmental organizations report in their campaigns the pollution of the oceans and, at the same time, place plastic waste as one of the main problems of the present.Read More
"Maybe one day I will be able to tell my grandchild: this is what I was fighting for when I was your age!", this is the hope of Elizabeth Gulugulu talking about climate change.Read More
Gonzalo Muñoz is Ashoka fellow and was nominated by the Chilean presidency as High Level Climate Champion for COP25, role from which he is mobilizing climate action in non-state actors all around the world.Read More
On the 11th of December, while the European Commission is launching the European Green Deal, the Portuguese Ministry of Environment and Climate Action is organizing the side-event "Portugal Long-term Strategy: enhancing 2030 targets&making finance flows work towards carbon neutrality in 2050" at the European Pavilion.Read More
The impending exit of the United States from the Paris Agreement marks one of the darkest moments in the history of climate governance and could help deflate any momentum coming out of this year’s climate conference (COP25) in Madrid. But the presence of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other US Democratic lawmakers at the outset of the conference shows the US is not of one mind.Read More
The issue of loss and damage has turned into one of the most contentious topics at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid. The chief international framework that addresses this important subject, the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM), is up for a second review. Developing nations are locked in a heated debate with developed nations regarding loss and damage finance and other issues.Read More
The first week of COP25 comes to an end and the voices of indigenous populations stand out. During the side-event "Natured-based solutions, rights-based decisions: Amazon indigenous REDD+ & IPS land defense action", the General Coordinator of the COICA, José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal, and the President of ANECAP, Fermín Chimatani Tayori, speak, among others, in front of a big audience.Read More
The first week of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP25) is over in Madrid, but the most urgent points in discussion are far from being properly tackled. They are mostly about the finalisation of the Paris Agreement Rulebook, most of which was sketched out during the Katowice COP of 2018 (the document counted 300 pages) except for some (fundamental) questions.Read More
"We are in a climate emergency", "This Conference is a farce", "El sistema es una mierda", "Capitalism kills the planet"....Read More