The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty whose objective is to combat “dangerous human interference with the climate system”, in part by stabilizing “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would … Continue reading →
On 24 May 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered the commencement address at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, one of the oldest and most prestigious Catholic universities in the United States, close to New York City. He told graduates that … Continue reading →
This article was first published on the CovCAN website. Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to denote work under Article 6 of the Convention (1992) and Article … Continue reading →
On 21 April 2022, the Department for Education (DfE) published a policy paper [1] for English schools entitled Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems It says the DfE has an important role to … Continue reading →
On 17 January the UK government published the Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3), recognising the unprecedented challenge of ensuring the UK is resilient to climate change and setting out the work already underway to meet that challenge. The five-year assessment, delivered … Continue reading →
Climate change is leading to ever-increasing drought, crop failure, death of livestock, flooding and sea-level rise which can all cause migrations of people. Migrants take with them their language, ethnicity, culture and religion any of which may differ from those … Continue reading →
The UK already has one of the most ambitious 2030 targets for reducing emissions in the world, designed to be consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal. But, according to an independent assessment of COP26 and the critical next steps … Continue reading →
On 13 December Niger and Ireland sponsored a draft resolution that would have requested the UN Secretary‑General to integrate climate‑related security risk as a central component of United Nations conflict‑prevention strategies aiming to help counter the risk of conflict relapse. … Continue reading →
Ice on Fire is a 2019 documentary which explores the potential extinction level event caused by arctic methane release, and the newly developed technologies that could reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere. The film premiered to … Continue reading →
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) was launched in April 2021 by Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26, and the COP26 Private Finance Hub in … Continue reading →