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Did COP27 Accomplish Anything?

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On December 16, 2022
Basically, no. The United Nations climate conference that concluded last weekend in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, did not appear, at the outset, poised to deliver a major breakthrough. Unlike last year’s meeting in Glasgow, this year’s was not designed to produce new emissions pledges, and...
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Climate Backsliding

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On November 16, 2022
Tell me how this is going to work out well for humans again? At last year’s global climate talks in Glasgow, world leaders, scientists and chief executives rallied around a call to “keep 1.5 alive.”The mantra was in reference to an aspirational goal that every...

COP27

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On November 12, 2022

While we are focusing on the elections (for good reasons of course), the world continues to burn. Will the US ever do anything useful in fighting climate change? Biden appeared.

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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) The idea that this planet will be livable for humans in a century is extremely unlikely. We just...
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Debt, Colonialism, and Climate

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On August 3, 2022
ProPublica has a typically excellent deep dive on how the long-term debts of Barbados makes it very difficult for that small island nation to fight climate change. With Lagarde on the phone, Mottley made her pitch. Barbados, she said, was going to default on the...
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