THE POWERFUL PRESENCE OF FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYISTS

Image Credit – Tasos Mansour A coalition of 126 civil society groups have called for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to exclude fossil fuel lobbyists from attending future climate talks, claiming that ‘climate action will always be inadequate if polluting interests are allowed to obstruct.’1  This demand comes after a record […]

NEW LOSS AND DAMAGE FUND COMPENSATES VULNERABLE COUNTRIES FOR CLIMATE INEQUALITIES

Image Credit – Adeel Shabir A monumental agreement has been struck by G77 nations on a new loss and damage fund.  The documents were published on Sunday morning, (20th November) over 36 hours after negotiations at COP27 were scheduled to end.  The proposal finally made it onto the agenda of this year’s global climate summit […]

CLIMATE TRACE – EMISSIONS TRACKER PAVES THE WAY FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Carbon Emissions Released 2021. Source: https://climatetrace.org/map On the 9th of November at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, founding member Al Gore announced the launch of Climate TRACE’s newly intricate and highly detailed carbon emissions database. Formed in 2021 prior to COP26, Climate TRACE, which stands for Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions, is a global non-profit coalition […]

BYLINE TIMES A HOT MESS

Our contributor Ottilie Owen asked to summarise an article from Byline Times’ extensive climate change section in the August print edition. Further articles are available at their website: www.bylinetimes.com When David Cameron repositioned the Conservative Party in 2006 as environmentalist organisation encouraging Britons to ‘vote blue, go green’ whilst updating the party’s logo to a […]