The COP28 climate summit in the UAE: hijacked by lobbyists
As COP28 begins in Abu Dhabi, it's worth asking: Do these summits even move the needle on climate change any more?
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As COP28 begins in Abu Dhabi, it's worth asking: Do these summits even move the needle on climate change any more?
We are entering in the last month of 2023...the major news is redundant and usually one-sided. On the local news front....we here on the Gulf Coast have had some winter weather and even some rain other than that not much happening to speak of right now. As of midnight yesterday the Hurricane Season officially ended....good…
‘This isn’t hard. If your company digs stuff up and burns it, you’re the problem. It’s time to wind down your business. Past time’
Tentative deal reached on the world’s first climate damage fund
Revelations on November 27 that COP28 host nation UAE planned to leverage its official position to pursue new oil and gas deals were a timely reminder that there are entire nations that essentially operate as oil companies, with precisely the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell, writes Bill McKibben.