Two major gains took place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, which concluded on 13 November: the first was that there would be another COP in 2022 in Egypt, and the second was that the world leaders expressed their aspiration to keep global temperature below 1.5☌ alive. The climate conference ended with a watered down promise to phase down rather than phase out coal-powered energy generation and only the most powerful countries got to finalise the pact.īy Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexander, in Globetrotter, Why our climate isn't jumping for joy after COP26 The New Yorker says the author is not only "one of the greatest science fiction writers "one of the most importannt political writers in America today." In my opinion the best written, most well informed and thoughtful books on how to save the planet. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Inspired by true events and informed by solid research, this novel knits together a gripping spy thriller, a heartbreaking family drama, and a passionate romance. So when she's given the opportunity to join a secret task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, she says yes, even though she secretly admires the work Sankara is doing for his country. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. It's 1986, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. But even most of the governments represented and almost all the journalists covering the conference were well aware that the only minimally reassuring positive results from COP26 was the decision to meet again next year and that the governments did not actually abandon the aspiration to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade. It is immoral for the rich to talk about the future of their children and grandchildren when the children of the Global South are dying now.' Less than 2 minutes.Īnd the speech to the assembly by Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate was less than 4 minutes long but both eloquent and direct.Īsad Rehman and Vanessa Nakate may have been among the most eloquent. You have turned your backs on the poorest who face a crisis of Covid, economic and climate apartheid because of the actions of the richest. Asad Rehman of War on Want spoke to the presidency of COP26 with words that resonated far from Glasgow: "The rich have refused to do their fair share, more empty words on climate finance.
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