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The Climate Briefing: The Future of Climate Diplomacy 2: Kaveh Guilanpour
Ahead of the landmark COP30 in Belem, Brazil, this November, calls for reform of the UNFCCC and COPs are growing, as are concerns that the only formal global forum for climate negotiation and cooperation is under threat. In a series of conversations, Anna, Ruth and Bhargabi interview thought leaders in the climate world about what the future of climate diplomacy should look like.
COP28: What was achieved, and what needs to happen now
If COP28 started with the bang of a landmark agreement on loss and damage, it ended with a cacophony over the ‘UAE Consensus’ on the Global Stocktake (GST). Hailed as groundbreaking by hosts the UAE and criticized as insufficient by climate vulnerable groups such as the alliance of small island states (AOSIS), the agreement is in fact both. The context for this duality is the slow speed of climate action to date.
Geopolitical problems must not hamper progress at COP27
Although global attention on COPs fluctuates from year to year, ultimately all of them are important, even those where big decisions are not expected. One of the reasons for this is that the coming together of all parties can act as push mechanisms for new political leadership on climate to emerge, in sometimes unexpected ways. At COP26, the US turnaround on climate following the election of President Joe Biden provided hope and momentum.
Time is of the essence in the race against climate change
The flooded bank of the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany in 2021. Photo: Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Getty Images. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the third – and final – report in its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) triad on the state of climate change and the world’s response. The first report, on climate science, was published in the run up to COP26 last year.
Governments face losing the battle against climate change
In London, a girl fills out details into ration books prior to their distribution at the beginning of the Second World War on 12 October 1939. Photo: Gerry Cranham/Fox Photos/Getty Images. Current global climate action is starkly insufficient. Across the world, government plans leave the planet way off course for limiting temperatures to 1.50C, with gaping chasms between what governments say they will do, the policies being made and the implementation of these policies.
From words to deeds: What next for climate action?
Empty chairs are left on stage as negotiations continue on the last day of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Delegates from around the world attempt to agree on the final text of the COP26 agreement. Photo: Getty Images. Following the emotion and exhaustion of COP26, momentum behind global climate action is gathering again.
Earth Day 2021: Only 3 in 10 Britons think the Government has a clear plan to tackle climate change
In a new global survey by Ipsos MORI to mark Earth Day 2021, in partnership with the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), only 3 in 10 Britons (28%) agree that the Government has a clear plan for how it can work with business and the people to tackle climate change. A third disagree (33%).
Now what? Climate change and coronavirus
Seventy-one percent of the world feels climate change is as significant a threat as coronavirus in the long term. So, in the midst of this upheaval we ask what, if anything, can COVID-19 teach us about the climate crisis?
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