At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), Saudi Arabia’s action was to throw up as many roadblocks to reaching an agreement. This video was recorded by Democracy Now two days before the COP21 agreement was reached. Ms. Juhasz notes that the Persian Gulf region will become simply uninhabitable unless we…
The audio quality is poor, and the first 8 minutes show them setting up for the briefing.
According to Naomi Klein, speaking at a public event after the COP21 Climate Change agreement was announced, that it sets us on a plan to disastrous 3 degrees Centigrade of warming. She notes that the agreement even says that the announced commitments from the Parties to the agreement are not…
Should we celebrate that the COP21 Climate Change summit produced an agreement? The new agreement doesn’t have mandatory limits, mandatory agreements, etc … those are things which were in the Kyoto climate change agreement which we had 18 years ago. Maybe the agreement won’t be enough – but at least…
After over 20 years of negotiations, the COP (Conference of Parties) UN Climate Change negotiation process has finally produced an “accord”. French President François Hollande spun it as “The decisive deal for the planet is here.” But environmentalists lamented the climate change deal reached in Paris did not do enough. In…
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…
