May 15, 2022 | COP26
Science Advocates For Action And Encounters Both Rising Ambition And Resistance Science is critical in determining how and why the climate is changing, in assessing our existing systems in order to determine what needs to change to combat climate change and how we...
Feb 21, 2022 | COP26
Despite the fact that knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples are crucial for natural resource management, these systems have long been ignored in international fora for climate change adaptation and mitigation [3, 4]. The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) thus...
Feb 20, 2022 | COP26
Ahead of the official summit in Glasgow, COP26’s success was expected to hinge on the financial outcomes of the event. Crucial funding for vulnerable nations had not been forthcoming, as the yearly $100 billion dollars in financial support that had been promised...
Feb 14, 2022 | COP26
Expectations for COP26 Many youth climate summits took place in the lead-up to COP26. Between 28th and 30th September 2021, nearly 400 young people aged 15 to 29 from 186 countries met in Milan, Italy, to exchange ideas and discuss climate solutions [1]. The...
Feb 13, 2022 | COP26
While policy makers and scientists alike deemed 6°C warming catastrophic, 2°C above pre-industrial levels has long been identified as an acceptable threshold guiding climate policy [2]. However, anyone with a keen understanding of climate policy would comment...
Feb 7, 2022 | COP26
While lobbying, the act of influencing legislation, is not unknown to the COP negotiations, this past COP proved to be decisive. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement (COP21), when every country agreed to keep global warming below 2 degrees while aiming for 1.5 degrees, they...
