Tag: Paris Agreement
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Outnumber Any National Delegation at Climate Summit
The BBC is reporting that the fossil fuel industry has the largest delegation at the COP26 climate summit. "The fossil fuel industry has spent...
World Leaders: We Will Not Accept More Empty Promises
The optimism and celebration coming from a whirlwind of funding and program announcements during the first days of COP26 are quickly vanishing as climate...
12 Reports You Should Know About As COP26 Unfolds
“Recent climate action announcements might give the impression that we are on track to turn things around. This is an illusion,” said UN secretary...
What Is So Special About COP26 in Glasgow
The United Nations’ yearly climate change conference—also known as COP (Conference of the Parties)—has taken place since 1995. COP26 is being held in Glasgow,...
What RBC Branch Managers Need To Know
On October 29th, 2021, Land defenders and grassroots activists took action at more than 30 RBC bank branches across Canada to stop RBC from...
Fossil Production Dangerously Out of Sync With Paris 1.5°C Limit
The UNEP 2021 Production Gap Report finds that governments' fossil fuel production plans are dangerously out of sync with Paris limits. The Report "tracks...
Dear Mark Carney: We’re Running Out Of Time
Over 90 groups are urging Mark Carney—in a letter published worldwide—to do all he can to "raise the bar on climate action from the...
A Mind-bending $11.2 Million Per Minute in Fossil Fuel Subsidies
“The world’s hugely encouraging clean energy momentum is running up against the stubborn incumbency of fossil fuels in our energy systems,” says Fatih Birol,...
24 Hours of Climate Reality: What’s Different This Year
From October 31 to November 12, representatives of nearly 200 countries will meet in Glasgow, Scotland for the United Nations’ 26th Conference of Parties...
Is COP26 the Answer We’ve Been Waiting For Or a Dangerous Fantasy?
COP26 has been described as "the" critical climate summit to have a chance at limiting the warming of the planet to well below 2ºC,...