This is a historic agreement, as flawed as it is. After over 20 years of negotiations, the COP meetings have produced a full agreement on climate change mitigation/adaptation. Final document retrieved from: http://unfccc.int/documentation/documents/advanced_search/items/6911.php?priref=600008831
The fossil fuel companies are scrambling to maximize the number of profitable quarters before real fossil fuel cutbacks are enacted. Activists plan to hold “an action” during the final event to approve the COP21 agreement, because it’s felt the agreement will cross some “red lines” leading to an unsustainably hotter…
This video is actually from COP19 in Warsaw two years ago – but the observation that fossil fuel corporations, and other big corporations, are sponsoring the conference is just as true today as then. It is fossil fuel consumption that creates the conditions of climate change. It is cessation of…
The COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris occurred about 2 weeks following a horrific terrorist attack, also in Paris. That attack was perpetrated by people born in France or Belgium, who were French and Belgian citizens, who happened to be of Middle Eastern descent. They successfully staged a large scale…
This program on India TV (NDTV) goes over the risk of Climate Change – aired in the middle of the COP21 Climate Change conference in Paris. India feels they’re being unfairly blamed for blocking climate change progress. India emits a large amount of “Carbon” but if you amortize it over…
At the UNFCCC COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, France, eleven banks including the World Bank, European Investment Bank and Credit Agricole, announced the launch of ‘Five Voluntary Principles for Mainstreaming Climate Actions Within Financial Institutions’. The potential importance of this is that banks have a great deal of control over…
The Obama Administration has (finally) rejected the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, in a hollow victory for environmentalists who’ve staged this as a key battle in preventing climate catastrophe. While this is an important victory, other news from today’s news feed demonstrates that the oil companies plan to simply take the…
Electric Vehicle adoption should make a big contribution to reducing the urban heat island effect, significantly lowering temperatures in big cities during the summer, causing a large decrease in electricity consumption because there’ll be less need for air conditioning. That’s the claim of a research paper published in Nature in…
Is the only way Volkswagen can repair its image is to completely erase Diesel engines from its car line-up, and to completely switch to plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles? That’s what Robert Llewellyn says in this rant. Why is his opinion important? In addition to being an actor, TV show…
Remember a few years ago the “debate” over whether CO2 is pollution? With its announcement today of the “Clean Power Plan” the Obama Administration makes it clear that debate is over, and that action is required now rather than later. The plan calls for strict rules over CO2 emissions, and…
The world is moving towards a crucial climate change meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). The negotiations there will be based on national pledges, formally known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, with the goal of setting the world on a sustainable path. The International Energy Agency has long emphasised to its…
It never rains in southern California in the summer – isn’t there a song which says that? Having lived in California for 25 years, it’s true, summertime is one long period of blue sunny skies every day and no rain. It actually gets a bit boring having fabulous weather day…
Since at least the 1980’s the Oil Industry, ExxonMobil in particular, has colluded to fund climate change denial while behind closed doors they clearly knew about the problem and the potential for government policy to negatively impact their business. That’s the line which should have led my post the other…
It’s one thing to point at The Oil Companies and say they’re bashing climate change to continue being able to sell fossil fuel products and thereby keep up dividend payments to their shareholders. But it’s necessary to have proof – and the Union of Concerned Scientists just delivered some documentation that the…
