Posts Tagged ‘COP21’
Salvaging the Paris Agreement
Pledges and promises from many local, state and regional U.S. institutions provide hope that the Paris Agreement can be salvaged despite Trump’s withdrawal.
Read moreDid the Climate Change in Paris?
Did the Climate Change in Paris? What’s Next? A Conversation with Mark Hertsgaard and Local Activists. COP21 was a landmark event for the climate. For the first time, nations around the world agreed that we need aggressive goals. And with their inadequate commitments so far, it has further highlighted the gaping chasm between where we…
Read moreReport from the Frontlines of the Paris Climate Talks
Activists and journalists on the front lines of the climate justice movement report back from the U.N. Conference of Parties (COP) 21 Tuesday, March 8th, 4:00pm to 7:00pm SF State Main Library Room 121 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132 Download event flyer. • Teresa Almaguer is the Youth Program Coordinator for PODER, a San Francisco…
Read moreNew Year's resolutions for a 1.5° world
I’ve been watching videos of COP21 panels and press briefings I missed or couldn’t get into in Paris, and the shift in tone—from something like grim determination early in the conference to relief and euphoria at the end—is really striking. Everyone knew that holding global warming to 2°C. would be painful and deadly, but…
Read moreIt's done, now we start!
By now you’re all tuned in to the bones of the agreement and have heard both the huzzahs and the carping. It’s important to note that the final outcome was far better than most of the world had dared hope before the nations converged in Paris. Seems to me that the realists are ready to…
Read moreComing down to the wire
Here’s the latest from the Sierra Club insiders who have been doing a yeoman’s job of keeping us all updated on the progress of the negotiations: Hi all Today is a day for private negotiations. Last night the French put out a text that we really liked. Now we need the new ambition group to…
Read moreAs if you were in Paris…
Actually, if you were here, you would probably be back in your hotel watching these Blue Zone sessions on your computer, like I’m doing today. Here are my faves of the day: 1.If you only watch one thing, I recommend John Kerry’s exhortation to the Plenary to get its act together, which he made just…
Read moreA couple of things to watch for in news of COP21
Another day, another onslaught of information and no assurance I have more than a marginal idea about what is actually going on! But I am learning about some of the major sticking points in the agreement, which can be substantively changed this week from its current not-exactly-what-we-need form. • We heard this morning that there…
Read moreAl Gore's Big Moment
In a first for COP21 since I’ve been here, the masses in the Green Zone got to sit in on the Plenary in the Blue. Al Gore just addressed the conference proper in an event that was live-streamed to the Green Zone. He spoke for an hour an a half in what was essentially a…
Read moreClimate change is complicated. So is COP21.
Here I am in Paris, huddled with the uncredentialed masses trying to figure out what is actually going on in the Le Bourget conference center. Like the effects of climate change, this event is pretty diffuse, and everyone, rightfully, can find their niche. In this way this massive, multi-faceted, distributed show is kind of organically…
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