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Mock Cop26 set up in frustration at lack of progress due to coronavirus crisis Young climate activists have begun a parallel process to the UN climate crisis talks, in frustration at the lack of progress they perceive in world governments’ efforts to address the emergency. Crunch negotiations aimed at fulfilling the Paris climate agreement, called

By External SourceSep 14 2020 (IPS-Partners) Come to the table, with a willingness to share and be vulnerable: This video is the second in a 3 part series hearing directly from Monitoring Evaluation and Learning practitioners within the Pacific region and their experience of using Pacific approaches in their work. In this video we hear

Climate Action 100+ group put 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies on notice in latest campaign by shareholders A group representing investors that collectively manage more than US$47tn in assets has demanded the world’s biggest corporate polluters back strategies to reach net-zero emissions and promised to hold them to public account. Climate

Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Christian Dorninger, Alf Hornborg, David J. Abson, Henrik von Wehrden, Anke Schaffartzik, Stefan Giljum, John-Oliver Engler, Robert L. Feller, Klaus Hubacek, Hanspeter Wieland

33 people have died since start of outbreak in mid-August ‘He’s going to tell us, I’m going to send you rakes instead of help Opinion: Trump doesn’t care – the west didn’t vote for him The death toll from wildfires choking the west coast of the US continued to rise on Sunday as authorities feared

Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Vijesh V. Krishna, Christoph Kubitza

A media watchdog analysis found that just 15% of broadcast news segments over a September weekend made the connection to climate breakdown Most news coverage of the wildfires raging in California, Washington and Oregon on American TV channels made no mention of the connection between the historic fires and climate crisis, according to a new

Privatization of the ocean, in the sense of defining more exclusive property rights, is taking place in increasingly diverse ways. Because of more intensive and diversified use patterns and increasing sustainability challenges, it is likely that this process will continue into the future. We argue that the nature of privatization varies from one oceanic domain