Greta Thunberg presented a panel of climate scientists at the COP. Here is an excerpt from esteemed scientists Professor William Moomaw: Watch the full session with all speakers here:
Leonie Bremer, 22, explains from COP25 how Fridays4Future is moving beyond holding signs to increase the pressure on every government on climate change. There’s a newly established dynamic at the UN climate negotiations. Back in… Read More »Fridays4Future: bolder than holding signs
The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface and are a major source of oxygen and carbon sink. This new study confirms that they are also in rapid decline as deoxygenation also means a dead… Read More »Professor Dan Daffoley – IUCN Deoxygenation of Oceans
Nick Breeze: There has been a drop in the rate of the rise of emissions. Should we interpret this as good news? Kelly Levin: The bottom line is that this is bad news because we… Read More »Is the COP process working? World Resources Institute decarbonisation specialist, Kelly Levin
The youth movement has become a key voice at COP25 as countries negotiate action. Thousands of youth strikers took to the streets around the world last week, from here in Madrid to parallel demonstrations in… Read More »Youth strikers march for climate justice
Greta Thunberg has announced at COP25 in Madrid that she realises she has a platform but that she will share it with the world’s most vulnerable people for whom climate change is a reality today.… Read More »Greta Thunberg Press Conference at the UN: I will share my platform
The World Meteorological Organisation has delivered a sobering report on the state of global climate at COP25 in Madrid. Policymakers have for years relied on a get-out clause in the climate change forecasting that implied… Read More »THE WMO Report shows this is the decade climate change was baked in
It was hard to miss the British Pavilion at COP24 this year – but the truth of the ‘Green Is Great’ slogan was as shallow as the printers’ ink. The Conference of the Parties 24… Read More »The British ‘green is great’ COP out
Nick Breeze interviews professor John Schellnhuber, who set up the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in 1991 to study climate. Nick Breeze (NB): Thinking back to the beginning of the Potsdam Institute, and where… Read More »Schellnhuber: ‘It’s nonlinearity – stupid!’
Dr Saleemul Huq explains we must stay below 1.5ºC – and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24. Nick Breeze (NB): When we are talking about the… Read More »Dr Saleemul Huq Interview: climate litigation looms
The European Commission’s Copernicus programme also attended this year’s COP in Katowice, Poland, and organised a number of activities at the EU Pavilion. Organised jointly by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship… Read More »Satellite data presentation: Copernicus Climate Change Service
The generation who will have to live with the failures of COP24 are still not allowed into the negotiating room. The Conference of the Parties 24 (COP24) climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland, are well underway.… Read More »They who shall inherit the Earth…
Barack Obama now argues “we are speeding our car towards the cliff at a very fast rate”. Adrian Bridge, CEO of the 326yr old port company hosting the former US president adds “what we need… Read More »Barack Obama admits Paris Accord targets ‘not enough to avoid catastrophe’
Natalie Bennett is the former leader of the Green Party. She is attending the climate talks, COP23, to both appear on panels and attend discussions all over the COP aimed at pushing the world towards… Read More »Baroness Natalie Bennett speaking at COP23, hosted by Fiji in Bonn
The jet stream is responsible for what kind of weather we experience and its behaviour is changing. Dr Jennifer Francis, a research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, explains how a combination of… Read More »The weather we rely on for agriculture is only going to get worse
This session was recorded at COP23 in Bonn. Kevin Anderson is the Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Manchester UK.
Dr Saleemul Huq is Director International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at the Independent University, Bangladesh. In this short interview, Dr Huq talks about his work and explains how those most vulnerable to… Read More »Dr Saleemul Huq: “They are making profits by killing people… so tax them! Let’s put a Loss and Damage levy on them”
UK based Carbon Tracker Initiative has played a key role in showing big businesses, including fossil fuel companies, a route out of the business as usual high CO2 emitting path that is driving humanity towards… Read More »UK Financial Analyst and CarbonTracker CEO, Anthony Hobley, says the Paris Agreement “just makes financial sense”