The Art at COP27 Offered Opportunities to Move Beyond ‘Empty Words’ – Inside Climate News
While the goal of effecting decisive global change proved largely elusive at the United Nations’ annual climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the art at COP27 offered other road maps for moving forward…
“You can’t keep having these conversations amongst yourselves as politicians and academics and scientists,” (Egyptian-Lebanese artist, Bahia Shehab) said. “We’re not getting anywhere. We need to open up the conversation.”
A deal on loss and damage, but a blow to 1.5C – what will be Cop27’s legacy? – the Guardian
Developed countries as a bloc are still in the top five emitters, taking historical responsibility into account, but individually they are eclipsed by rapidly growing emerging economies, such as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other petrostates, according to Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate adviser…
“This Cop was something of a failure, because it completely let the world’s biggest emitter, China, off the hook,” he said. “Global emissions can’t fall until China’s emissions fall. This is the key to climate protection.”
‘No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas – the Guardian
Pacific state needs billions for its ambitious plan – its president demands wealthy nations act to help now
Developing countries vulnerable to the worst ravages of global heating have spent the past week at United Nations climate talks urging more support from wealthy nations. The Pacific state of Kiribati has a very specific and unusual demand – that its islands be physically raised up to escape the encroaching seas…
How to Pay for Climate Justice When Polluters Have All the Money – the New Yorker
You can imagine the tension—the anger—that comes from watching your part of the world dry up or flood, knowing that the countries whose pollution caused your problems also have enough dollars to repair the damage…COP27 is one more reminder, however, that justice only proceeds, fitfully, through politics. Rebalancing the world’s wealth, even a little, is the trickiest of political tasks. Yet our chances for a livable world may depend on it.
Report Released at COP27 Gives a ‘Terminal Diagnosis’ for Summer Sea Ice – Columbia Climate School
On November 7, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative released its annual State of the Cryosphere Report (which) presents troubling news of present and projected impacts on the world’s ice…but offers hope that future harms can be limited by rapid and sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions…
On the way to climate hell: Will COP27 negotiations enforce climate action commitments? – Forbes India
The debate of economic growth versus environment is central to our times and at the heart of the climate negotiations of COP27. Escalating climate events worldwide show that we are living on borrowed time.
Cop27: coral conservation groups alarmed over ‘catastrophic losses’ – the Guardian
You don’t have to travel far from the sprawling convention center that’s staging the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to see what’s at stake. This coastal resort town is fringed by an ecosystem seemingly facing worldwide cataclysm from global heating – coral reefs….