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Time for adaptation?

Envirotec Magazine

“The Glasgow COP is going to fail us,” writes Rupert Read in one of the essays in a new collection, Climate Adaptation. Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least.

COP 130
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The True Power of the Climate Movement Is Now to Admit Our Own Powerlessness

DeSmogBlog

That the hopes invested when we were told for example in 2009 that we had eight years ( 100 months , to be precise) to save the world have definitively not been realised. The media and political leaders unable to hold back the tide. And the Green Party. Why it will shift perceptions more radically than ever before.

COP 143
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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

COP 81
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'We are witnessing the impacts of a disorderly transition': CCC boss Chris Stark on net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. Building back better.

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COP26 Climate Summit: From fossil fuels to forests - 10 things we learned in Glasgow

Business Green

It is highly likely the row over phasing down or phasing out coal power will return in the coming years and the debate at future COPs will no doubt be extended to address oil and gas. If there's one theme that really comes out loud and clear from this COP, it is about money," said former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd.

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Three things that could make COP27 a success

Business Green

Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. In addition, there is growing dismay, and anger in many quarters, that the unmet promises of past COPs, especially in providing finance to those that are suffering loss and damage from climate change, are going to make COP27 even more challenging.

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🌏 Live from New York (Climate Week)

Climate Tech VC

As one of the largest gatherings of the climate community, NYC Climate Week attracted even more participants than usual this year, particularly because many attendees are opting to skip COP, which is being held in Azerbaijan​ in November.