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Another COP is coming…
In less than a week, global attention will focus on land and drought resilience as the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (U...
Lessons from COP29: Insulting Exclusion
The 29th Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the world’s first oil town. This years’ COP has fuelled the doubt over the impact of such annual COP conferences, questioning the cre...
Comment: COP29 and counting…
COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has ended. Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), called for “A new push to protect water, our...
UNDP: Water for Climate Action
“A new push to protect water, our most valuable resource”, the UN entitles the speech of Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United ...
COP Won’t Save Us – Book Excerpt
In this excerpt of their book Dismantling Green Colonialism – Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region, co-editors Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell of the Transnational Institute (TNI) e...
Water and women – a gender issue
Two articles published in Kenya’s Nation in the context of the ongoing COP29 deal with the effects of water scarcity from a gender perspective: Scientists warn women could spend 30 per cent more...
COP29: Not a drop of hope
Little seems to be expected from the COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. Hosted by a nation that openly promotes oil and gas, with important state leaders not attending (and some even actively campaign...
Climate crisis: Can investments fix it?
Ahead of the COP29 meeting in Baku, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) published it’s Ecological Threat Report and states: “Investment in water and agricultural infrastructure is ...
COP16: Just more of the same?
COP16 on biodiversity is about to close. What did it bring? Eduardo Gudynas, Uruguayan biologist and author specializing in environmental issues, sees little new. He commented: Many of the ‘transition...
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