An brief overview of what happened at COP28 and our presence at this annual conference The text for COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted by 200 States on December 13 in Dubai, after prolonged negotiations. Members of civil society present on the ground and around the world advocated tirelessly for a more ambitious action plan, justice for the populations and countries most vulnerable to the

What are COPs and why do they matter for local climate action? Since 1995, the United Nations (UN) has held yearly meetings on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to assess international progress made on climate change. These meetings are attended by the  Parties  of the UNFCCC - the countries who ratified the convention - hence their name: Conference of the Parties, or COP. These meetings have resulted in historic, legally-binding international

Marouane attended COP 27 and according to him, "there is a role for everyone as long as we work together" Marouane Joundi is a project manager at the Rivières Foundation. He holds a master's degree in political science, and he was actively involved in the student movement for climate action in 2019 and 2020. Originally from Morocco, Marouane participated in COP 27 with great sensitivity for international justice issues and the impacts of climate change on the African continen

Interview of André-Yanne Parent, Executive Director of Climate Reality Canada, with Philippe-Vincent Foisy on qub radio  André-Yanne Parent, Executive Director of Climate Reality Canada, is currently at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. She had the opportunity to talk about her experience and her vision for the implementation of the objectives and commitments made by the States, in particular Canada and Quebec, with Philippe-Vincent Foisy on Radio qub. This interview is also a

by Charles Hodgson I attended the Climate Reality training in San Francisco in 2012 after having a bit of an awakening in 2009 around the time of the Copenhagen climate summit—COP 15.   It was at a dinner party I was hosting. One of our guests turned out to be a climate change denier and we argued furiously. I woke up the

By Maheep Sandhu, Community Climate Hubs Manager at the Climate Reality Project Canada In November 2021, I had the privilege to attend the global climate negotiations occurring in Glasgow, Scotland on behalf of the Climate Reality Project Canada. While at COP26, I did live correspondence for community-based partners like the  Calgary Climate Hub  and  The Climate Dialogues , interviewed young people from Kahnawá:ke, observed negotiations for the  Climate Action Network-Canada

By Juvarya Veltkamp The Importance of COP26   I’m writing from Glasgow this week, where there is a lot at stake with the United Nations climate negotiations currently underway, commonly known as COP26.  Nearly 200 countries signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, committing to limit global overheating to  within 1.5°C of warming . But the latest United Nations  Emissions Gap Report  finds that commitments known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) ahead of the Glasgow ta

April 22, 2021 The US announced its plan to cut emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels by 2030, and the EU committed to cut theirs by 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. It is unacceptable that Canada has not promised to at least meet the same targets as our peers. Canada needs to reduce GHG emissions by 60% below 2005 levels by 2030. Today's decision to increase our target to 40% is insufficient. Here is what André-Yanne Parent, Executive director of The Climate Reality Pro

By Climate Reality India India faces an unprecedented crisis due to climate change impacts, a government assessment report revealed last month, presenting a grim analysis of observed changes and future projections of warming impacts including precipitation changes, temperature rise, droughts, sea level rise and extreme weather events. The Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region- A Report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, is the first ever cli

By Paula Bernardino, Climate Reality Leader trained in 2017 UN’s SDG 13 Climate Action purpose is to "take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts." We find the information on the SDGs website that "the year 2017 was one of the three warmest on record and was 1.1 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial period. ... The world continues to experience rising sea levels, extreme weather conditions (the North Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest ever recorded

Originally published on ClimateRealityProject.org Holding global warming to the Paris Agreement best-effort target of 1.5 degrees Celsius will be a big ask and require rapid and large-scale transformations of our economies and development paths. We have a short window to hit this goal, but holding warming to about 1.5 degrees is the difference between a world we can adapt to and one threatening life planet-wide. We have to think big and act quickly if we want to keep global w