by rrf105 | Nov 18, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Chris Pesso The climate crisis is closely linked to the water crisis. With temperatures fluctuating throughout the world, we have experienced extreme droughts in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Ethiopia to severe floods in Pakistan. The need to address climate change...
by rrf105 | Nov 18, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Kerry Stewart The final negotiations in COP27 are taking place at this moment. In a series of small huddles in a seminar room in Sharm El-Sheikh, delegates debate the final sticking points of the COP27 agreement. But what has been agreed so far, and what is still...
by rrf105 | Nov 18, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Shahrina Rahman and Chris Pesso “Too few women are participating in COP27 climate negotiations, charities, activists and politicians have warned”. (Esme Stallard, BBC News Climate and Science). The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) agreed to a...
by rrf105 | Nov 17, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Philippa Oppenheimer As COP27 draws to a close, it’s time to review the progress made and how we move forward from the conference. Parties have concluded negotiations on several technical documents such as the Paris Agreement Committee’s report on...
by rrf105 | Nov 16, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Daisy O’Neill, Rana Ozturk, and Laura Reeves The feeling of climate anxiety is a growing phenomenon. With an increasing concern for the average global temperature reaching 1.5 ˚C above pre-industrial levels, many people worry that we are achieving too little...
by rrf105 | Nov 15, 2022 | COP, COP CAS, COP27, Front page news, Walker Academy
By Fiona Spuler, Thea Stevens, Catherine Toolan, Alex Moores. A little over a week into the conference, progress on loss and damage has been discouraging. Robert Muthami, a negotiator from Kenya, updated us on current discussions in the negotiation rooms. It seems...
