Yes, but barely. The UN climate summit delivered on its primary goal of keeping alive the Paris Agreement’s aim to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above preindustrial levels. Nations agreed on ...
GLASGOW, Scotland -- Nearly 200 countries adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact in Scotland on Saturday at talks known as COP26, after nearly two weeks of wrangling on everything from how much to limit ...
The momentous and much-anticipated 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), intended to run for two weeks, ended on 13 November, 24 hours later than scheduled. There were ...
COP26 President Alok Sharma holds a gavel as he speaks at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 13, 2021. (REUTERS/Yves Herman) In negotiations that extended ...
The overarching narrative emerging from COP26 is complicated. The deal that emerged—the Glasgow Climate Pact—wasn’t universally celebrated, nor was it universally condemned. It won’t save the world, ...
Recently, I gave a presentation at the U.N.’s COP26 Summit on digitization and innovation as the great enablers of systems change in my industry: culture. While preparing, I had to think about boiling ...
After two weeks of tense negotiations at COP26 in Scotland, the world has a new international climate change agreement: the Glasgow Climate Pact. The new document does not replace the landmark Paris ...
Sebastian Mernild’s presentation pulled no punches. As more than 40 countries met in Copenhagen last week to discuss progress since 2021’s COP26 climate summit, the University of Southern Denmark ...
“The Conference of the Profiteers” is how some Black, Brown, and Indigenous environmental justice activists have described the 26 th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, the United Nations Climate ...
Is the 1.5°C goal still alive? The answer is a good way to boil down the mind-boggling complexity of whether the COP26 summit, which finished in dramatic fashion last Saturday, puts humanity on the ...
“The question that needs to be asked is, how do we make the economy serve society? How do we make the economy serve nature? How do we change the economy from that extractive, consumptive model that we ...
Princeton, NJ--October 12, 2021--New research from Climate Central illustrates the fleeting opportunity to limit coastal cities’ future losses to rising seas. Detailed in the paper “Unprecedented ...