COP21 Depressed Me. And Then Gave Me Hope.
BY ANTHONY GIANCATARINO | December 15, 2015
Editor’s note: Today’s post…
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP21 – is being held in Le Bourget, from November 30 to December 11. It will be the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The conference objective is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.
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President Obama delivers remarks at COP21 in Paris on the global community’s need to address the threat of climate change. November 30, 2015
Pope Francis visits the U.N.O.N. Headquarters, seat of numerous United Nations offices, among which the International Organization for Development, UNEP for the Environment, UN-Habitat
The Church and COP21, presented by the Catholic Climate Covenant, features the U.S. bishops’ point person on international justice, who describes why the Paris climate talks are so important and how Catholic leaders are taking action.
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In the News:
December 15, 2015
December 14, 2015
December 13, 2015
- Pope urges international community to follow up on COP21 (Vatican Radio)
- 4 Pieces You Should Read About The Global Climate Deal (NPR)
December 12, 2015
- Nearly 200 Nations Adopt Climate Agreement At COP21 Talks In Paris (NPR)
- Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris (The New York Times)
December 11, 2015
- COP21: Five ways climate change could affect Africa (BBC)
- COP21: Final push for climate deal amid ‘optimist’ (BBC)
- Role of Pope Francis ‘transformative’ at Paris COP21 climate summit (Vatican Radio)
December 10, 2015
- Delegates at Climate Talks Focus on Saving the World’s Forests (The New York Times)
- The White House’s COP21 goals: less climate idealism, more political realism (The Guardian)
- See Stunning Photos of Animals Projected Onto the Vatican (National Geographic)
December 9, 2015
- COP21 is too male dominated and has male priorities, says UN special envoy (The Guardian)
- COP21: ‘Fireworks’ expected as new climate text published (BBC)
- U.S. Proposes Raising Spending on Climate-Change Adaptation (The New York Times)
- Chasing a Climate Deal in Paris (The New York Times)
December 8, 2015
- COP21, in its second week, pedals toward climate deal (National Catholic Reporter)
- Chasing a Climate Deal in Paris (The New York Times)
- Watching Greenland melt from Paris (CNN)
- COP21: UN climate change conference, Paris (The Guardian)
December 7, 2015
- COP21: Carbon emissions ‘to stall or even decline’ this year (BBC)
- COP21: Ministers in final push for Paris climate deal (BBC)
- Canada shocks COP21 with big new climate goal (National Observer)
December 6, 2015
- Scientists Enlist the Big Gun to Get Climate Action: Faith (The New York Times)
December 5, 2015
December 4, 2015
- COP21: City mayors discuss green solutions (BBC)
- A cheat sheet to industry-specific COP21 pledges (GreenBiz)
- COP21: in Paris, mayors and celebrities join UN launch of report on boosting investment towards climate smart cities (UN News Centre)
- Draft Agreement for Paris Climate Negotiators (The New York Times)
December 3, 2015
- At Paris Climate Talks, Time to Whittle Down the Options (The New York Times)
- Fake ads mocking corporate sponsors of talks pop up in Paris (CBC News)
December 2, 2015
- The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing (The New York Times)
- COP21: Richest 10 percent ‘produce the world’s CO2 emissions’ (The Independent)
- What is carbon pricing and why is it so important in battling climate change? (The Los Angeles Times)
- COP21: India signals willingness to cut coal for climate cash (BBC)
- What You Can Do About Climate Change (The New York Times)
December 1, 2015
- COP21 climate change summit: Obama ‘optimistic’ about agreement (CNN)
- COP21: Coal plans would derail 2 degree warming target (BBC)
- Climate Change and the Legacy of Thomas Merton (Religion and Politics)
- COP21: France to spend billions on African renewable energy projects (The Guardian)
- Now that the leaders have left COP21, what happens next? (BBC)
November 30, 2015
- Citing Urgency, World Leaders Converge on France for Climate Talks (The New York Times)
- COP21: Paris conference could be climate turning point, says Obama (BBC)
- COP21 climate change summit: ‘Never have the stakes been so high’ (CNN)
November 29, 2015
- ‘The shoes are marching for us‘ (CNN)
