The final agreement of the UN Climate Change Conference left all parties in Glasgow uneasy. The US negotiator, John Kerry, commented that this discomfort is a sign of good negotiation, in which everyone’s voice was heard and partially accommodated. In the wake of the conclusions, many questions whether or not COP26 was a failure. [read…]
His Excellency Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA), held his first Town Hall meeting with civil society on Wednesday, 17, 2021. “Welcome home!” he said at the opening speech to the leaders of civil society organizations in the Town Hall Meeting [read…]
The COP26 in Glasgow begins in an atmosphere of great expectations. Two years have passed since the failure of the Madrid summit that preceded it, characterized by extreme climate phenomena in all parts of the world: unprecedented temperature peaks, devastating droughts and fires, melting ice and permafrost, catastrophic floods, and small island states increasingly threatened by erosion as sea levels rise. There is a deep awareness in the public opinion and pressure on the political class to act immediately and radically to contain the climate crisis. [read…]
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