COP-26: Dilution of Equity by the Global North
by Deva Prasad M and Navaneeth M S The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow, although described by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson…
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Noam Chomsky Says We Have No Right to Gamble with the Lives of Climate-Vulnerable People: Video
https://youtu.be/rv18HU4CfXQ On October 1, 2021, a month before the kickoff of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, I had the good fortune to spend an hour with Noam Chomsky for…
The Big Industry That COP26 Failed to Tackle
The impact of agriculture on climate change is significant. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agriculture sector is responsible for 10 percent of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions,…
Why Our Climate Isn’t Jumping for Joy After COP26
by Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra Two major gains took place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, which concluded on November 13: the first was…
COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior
After more than two weeks of negotiations during the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, diplomats from almost 200 nations finally agreed on two major points: ramp up…
COP26: India ends up as fall guy
Greta Thurnberg, the famous Swedish climate change activist, summed up that the deal reached at COP26 at Glasgow on Saturday was “very, very vague” with several loopholes. She told the…
COP26: ‘Walking Inches When We Must Move Miles’
Climate vulnerable countries were bitterly disappointed with the watering down of language on coal and lack of finance to cover permanent losses from climate change they are already suffering. A…
Gasbagging in Glasgow: COP26 and Phasing Down Coal
Words can provide sharp traps, fettering language and caging definitions. They can also speak to freedom of action and permissiveness. At COP26, that permissiveness was all the more present in…
Climate Change COP26 – “Planet SOS” and Leaders Who Betrayed People’s Hopes for Sustainable Future
“Climate change” describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. Earth’s climate is always changing over long periods…
How Coal and Oil Lobby Betrayed Climate Agenda in COP26
The just ended climate summit COP26 has largely disappointed the people around the world in taking bold steps to avert rapid global warming. Despite the urgency to halt catastrophic climate…
The People vs. COP26: Time for Politicians, Billionaires to Listen
Of all the speeches and political grandstanding at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the words of Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, were the most…
COP26 Disaster: 2022 Climate Change Performance Index Ranks Australia Worst For Policy
The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow has failed to requisitely respond to the worsening Climate Crisis with national action pledges promising a catastrophic plus 2.4 degrees Centigrade temperature…
COP26- Real Climate Change Candor or More Dissimulation
Mark Carney, Chief Financer Advisor to COP26 & Glasgow Financial Alliance (GFANZ) COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland is where the petal should hit the metal and all the foot-dragging must…
Indigenous people hit by double whammy, is COP26 listening?
For the last ten days I have opened the COP26 daily programme website each morning to search for the events that may interest me. And I have been overwhelmed by…
The Most Basic of All Human Rights: Clean Water
by Kumi Naidoo and Richard von Weizsäcker The most outrageous injustice is that the same people who lack access to water and sanitation are usually the ones most vulnerable to…
COP26 climate summit ends in failure
As the global climate summit COP26 drags out to its miserable end this week in Glasgow, Scotland, the major capitalist powers and the banks and corporations that call the shots…
Climate Crisis: Our Collective Delusions
It’s apparent; Climate extremes are real. The last six years have been the hottest years on record. Megafires, polar melting, very severe cyclonic storms and other extreme weather events made…
COP26: By 2100, Bangladesh may drown, Pakistan likely to face severe water shortage, fear experts
Alok Sharma, the President of COP26, the mega make or break climate negotiation event currently underway in Glasgow, in a speech given at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on October 12…
An account of the performance of the early days of the Glasgow Conference
The Conference of the Parties(COP)-26 started on October 31, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland and will continue till November 12. The main objective of this conference is to reduce carbon emissions…
COP26: Wall Street rolls out climate finance
The US climate envoy John Kerry is getting down to the real business at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow after President Joe Biden has had…
A different tale of ‘COP26’
One day, some animals --- Tigers, lions, jackals, Zebras, monkeys, camels,.... -- Decided to meet and exchange Views on climate change! Tigers and lions said, 'let us all be united…
Glasgow climate summit: An elite farce?
The Glasgow summit on climate change has been a media extravaganza. The ruling elites from all continents cooped up in their national capitals due to the raging pandemic, finally got…
COP26: Will Humanity’s ‘Last and Best Chance’ to Save Earth’s Climate Succeed?
There is a chance we can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, but world leaders must hold businesses accountable and listen to Indigenous communities. It would be an…
COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies COP Twenty-six! That is how many times the UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis. But the…
Military-style Campaign To Combat Climate Change Is The Need, Says Prince Charles
Facing diminished hopes ahead of what many see as world leaders’ last chance to combat the climate crisis, Britain’s Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, on Monday called for…
400 Private Jets Carrying Politicians To COP26 Emit More CO2 Than Hundreds of Citizens Would In A Year
More than 400 private jets carrying politicians and business executives to this week’s conference will belch out 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide, exceeding the emissions of 1,600 average Scots for…
COP26 Exposes Failure of Neoliberalism
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow October 31st thru November 12th may be the most significant climate conference of all time. The fate of the planet is on…
The Glasgow summit, climate change, and the case for socialism
Heads of state, government ministers and thousands of other delegates from all corners of the globe are converging on Glasgow, Scotland for two weeks of climate change talks beginning this…
Global South Needs Unity to Ensure Justice in Climate Funding
There is increasing need for all the countries of the Global South to respond with growing unity on several important issues of common interest. One of these important issues relates…
Idiocracy: Australian Coalition Government Mendacity, Corruption & Inaction Sabotaging COP26
The forthcoming Glasgow COP26 climate change conference is increasingly seen as a near-last ditch attempt to prevent massive and deadly harm to Humanity and the Biosphere. However a resolutely mendacious,…
Now or Never: Will Glasgow’s COP26 Help Save the World From Disaster?
Looking back on 30 years of climate conferences, Geoffrey Lean recalls the many missed opportunities for change that led us to this boiling point. Peering back through the tunnel of three…
A Local Rain-Check Before a Global Summit: What is India Busy with Pre-CoP26?
The upcoming CoP26 is not without its own set of apprehensions and mired more in doubts than expectations with unrealistic ‘net-zero’ rhetoric and big consultancies like Boston Consultancy Group[i] managing…
Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26
It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a famed coal hugger, has…
What’s Up With COP26?
The UK (in partnership with Italy) will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26 in Glasgow on October 31- November 12, 2021. COP26 will be one…
The Pentagon Is Killing Us — and the Planet
The dog days of summer are upon us —and the record high temperatures killing hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and bringing 118 degree heat to Siberia serve as a harbinger of…
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