The UN failed short of a US$10 billion target after the US and other wealthy nations failed to fulfil their climate finance pledges at a crucial climate financing conference held last week in Bonn, Germany. Last week’s Bonn conference on climate change witnessed a significant setback as the US and other rich countries failed to...
Antarctica, the Earth’s coldest and most inhospitable continent, has long been considered one of the last pristine wildernesses on our planet. A land of ice and snow, where temperatures can plummet to bone-chilling extremes, it has been considered an unlikely candidate for hosting life, let alone lush vegetation. However, recent scientific research has unveiled a surprising and...
Weather disasters fueled by climate change — from floods to droughts, storms to wildfires — sparked 43.1 million child displacements from 2016 to 2021, the UN Children’s Fund warned Thursday, slamming the lack of attention paid to victims. In a sweeping report on the issue, the United Nations agency detailed the heart-wrenching stories of some of the...
Fossil fuel companies should not be included in the COP 28 climate summit if they continue to block climate action, the UN’s former climate chief told reporters on Thursday. “If they are going to be there only to be obstructors, and only to put spanners into the system, they should not be there,” said Christiana Figueres, who...
International climate policy experts , hailing from the “Global South” have denounced the ‘hypocrisy’ of some developed countries for their continued expansion of fossil fuel production despite lofty promises to combat climate change and have asked them to come clean to the COP28 in Dubai and demonstrate genuine leadership. The new report titled ‘Planet Wreckers:...
Ahead of U.N. meetings this week, thousands gathered in Midtown to demand that President Biden and other world leaders stop new oil and gas drilling. Tens of thousands of people, young and old, filled the streets of Midtown Manhattan under blazing sunshine on Sunday to demand that world leaders quickly pivot away from fossil fuels...
Al Gore, the former US vice president turned climate crusader, says Big Oil and the banks backing it still have huge financial incentives to stick with fossil fuels, even though their decision to do so is the leading cause of the climate crisis. Bankers “are profiting hugely” from their role as lenders and advisers to...
Reacting to reports that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as host of the COP28 climate meeting which begins in Dubai in November, has defined a narrow list of talking points for its officials around climate issues and is aiming to avoid discussion of human rights abuses in the country, Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Director of...
Oil and gas firms tout speculative technologies such as solar geoengineering to deflect attention from their responsibility for global warming, and the need for a rapid, equitable transition to renewables. As the world grapples with an unprecedented confluence of devastating floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by...
I’m a plaintiff’s trial lawyer, representing claimants in disputes decided in the civil justice system. That’s not to say I have a problem with defense lawyers. My wife is one, and she’s the love of my life. I have a servant’s heart, and I have spent the last 30 years representing people who have been...