Jan 28, 2025 | COP29, Guest Features
At COP29, developed countries collectively agreed to increase climate finance to “at least” $300bn per year [1]. Developing countries were left disappointed, as they had hoped for $1.3tn, and continue to feel sidelined in the negotiations [1]. Despite the...
Jul 29, 2024 | Featured Individuals, Guest Features
Oxygen “… under the gentle reminders of longer, stronger sunbeams, the coniferous trees of the Northern hemisphere forests unsealed their dark buds. In a ritual that has been practised for hundreds of millions of years, they slowly uncurled their baby...
Jul 29, 2024 | Adaptation and Mitigation, Featured Individuals, Guest Features
Unless you are fascist, or something like that, you will agree that everyone has an equal right to breathe air. Human rights don’t get more basic than that. Agreed? So if everyone has an equal right to the atmosphere, it matters what we all put into...
Jul 29, 2024 | Featured Guests, Guest Features
“One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet’s house to see what Piglet was doing. It was still snowing as he stumped over the white forest track, and he expected to find Piglet warming his...
Jul 6, 2024 | Guest Features
I pushed a pram with my fourth child along a quiet suburban street, trying to get him to sleep. A car pulled up ahead of me. It parked outside a house. Inside 30 seconds, just like that, everyone was indoors. I couldn’t believe it; it was almost like I...
Jun 13, 2024 | COP29, Guest Features
RCOY (Regional Conference of Youth) Europe 2024 took place from 10th-12th May 2024 in Vienna, Austria! It was organised by CliMates Austria and was part of the official UNFCCC YOUNGO Conferences of Youth. We asked some participants to share their experiences...