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From Blue Planet to Dirty Planet: It’s about time we clean up! – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Has COP27 paved the way for a sustainable future, or secured our descent into climate disaster? – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
The need for a push from ‘Power, Profit and Patriarchy’ to ‘People, Planet and Prosperity’ – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
COP27 closed, case still open – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Climate success stories: It’s not all doom and gloom – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Have we been here before? Loss and Damage: a time travel – COP CAS student blog
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 ...
Fostering hope through climate empowerment – COP CAS student blog
Yesterday was Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) and Civil Society Day at COP27 and accordingly, we heard from several speakers who shared their view of what makes for effective civil climate action within the sphere of international climate negotiations, and outside of it in wider society.
Civil society and COP – COP CAS student blog
By Catherine Toolan, Thea Stevens, Fiona Spuller, and Alex Moores
In part one of this blog series on civil society and climate empowerment we examined the disconnect between civil society and COP negotiations. In this second part we attempt ...
COP27’s first ever official water day was a drought event – COP CAS student blog
By Sharon Mandipe and Sarah Watson
It has been argued by the United Nations that climate change is primarily a water crisis (UN Water n.d.).
We all felt the effects of the relationship between climate change and water when temperatures ...
Decarbonisation through an African lens – COP CAS student blog
By Chris Pesso
The Oil and Gas Industry, over the past decades, has significantly contributed to the rise of CO2 emissions. The time has arrived for these companies to start funding the development of new technologies towards renewable ...
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