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Ask two different climate experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt (Cop27) to characterise their feelings about the future, and you may get quite different answers. "We are seeing more progress than we ever imagined," says one, while the other laments that we are heading full tilt like lemmings over the cliff. They can't both be right, can they?
Rather than be complacent or despairing, world leaders must critically examine what needs to change and what it will take to cross the essential tipping points
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (November 9, 2022) - Today at the COP27 climate negotiations in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the U.S. State Department along with The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund announced the creation of the Energy Transition Accelerator, a program designed to generate funding through voluntary market carbon credits to help developing countries transition to cleaner sources of energy. Following is a quote from Ani Dasgupta, President & CEO, World Resources Institute:
Accelerating the transition to a net-zero economy will require a change in incentives, new regulations and laws, shifts in behaviour, innovation, and unwavering lea.