Over a year has passed since I attended COP26 in the frozen tundra of Glasgow, Scotland—a slight exaggeration, yes, but compared to this year’s host country of COP27, Egypt, it’s true. However, after a few turbulent flights, I finally arrived at the Texas Impact...
During the first week of COP27, I participated in a briefing with US State Department negotiators; attended a speech by President Biden; and interviewed colleagues from US faith communities. More than once, I caught myself wondering, “couldn’t we have just done this...
While representatives of national governments are parsing diplomatic language in meeting rooms at the climate negotiations, outside the rooms advocates from “civil society” use every strategy they can think of to advance their issues and get negotiators’ attention....
Today at COP was a study in contrast between international policy negotiation and the implementation work of local communities. The US is squarely in the middle of both conversations, a fact US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry highlighted in his morning talk at the...
We arrived in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for this year’s United Nations climate negotiations after two days of travel, and we were immediately in the midst of global community: friends from around the world, diplomats and policy experts, and the people of the local...
