Dear Friends and Colleagues, We write with immense gratitude for your past support, as well as with hope for the New Year. This should be our moment, and so we…
Month: December 2023
COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action
by Justin Catanoso on 13 December 2023 originally published on Mongabay Even as organizers of the UN climate summit in Dubai, known as COP28, cheered a “breakthrough” agreement “transitioning away from fossil…
Tipping Again
On December 6, 2023, smack dab in the middle of COP28, a powerful, clearly written, and rather comprehensive report, Global Tipping Points, was released by the University of Exeter and…
Readying a Stronger Approach for the New Year
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are readying our new petition to compel the United States to undertake an orderly phaseout of fossil fuels within reach of existing US law. This…
A Petrostate-Captured COP
In my last post, here, I raised what I considered a singularly-critical question arising from the recently-concluded COP28: Why did the recently-concluded 28th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC…
Was it the ‘Beginning of the End’? COP28 & the Aspirational Fossil Fuel Phase Out
I fervently hoped to be proven wrong. In a blog post on Nov. 30, two days before my arrival in Dubai, I had predicted that the 28th Conference of the…
New and Young Voters: Do not Sit It Out
I direct myself to new and young eligible voters in the United States, though I speak today from Dubai—a city-state that is suffused right now with a toxic brew of…
3rd CPR Initiative Hearing on Climate Action
CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Santa Barbara, California on January 25, 2024. Co-hosted by the Community Environmental Council.
Breathless in Dubai
The relevant authorities here declared yesterday to be “COP28 Health Day.” An explanation is warranted. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC, or “Framework Convention”) was produced at the…