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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Laura Reeves and Nerea Ferrando Jorge DARAJA means bridge in Swahili which is fitting as this project aims to bridge the gap between urban communities and weather agencies, in order to make 1 billion people safer from climate disasters by ...

By Alex Moores, Chris Wyver, Rana Ozturk and Shammi Akhter We are approaching the halfway mark of this year’s COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and the key discussion threads are still developing even as negotiations begin to get underway. ...

  By Rana Ozturk, Alex Moores, Chris Wyver, Shammi Akhter “Justice will not be served up on a platter, we will have to take it.” -Yeb Saño This year at COP many people have spoken up about the issue of Climate Justice. We all ...

By Shammi Akhter, Alex Moores, Chris Wyver and Rana Ozturk The plastic industry is a carbon and fossil-fuel-intensive sector. People consume around 60 million plastic bottles every hour and only 9% is recycled1. More than half plastic ...