by Heather Malkawi | Jul 26, 2024 | Climate Justice, Faith Communities, Global Climate Policy, Health, Latest Posts, Race & Gender
Imagine a room filled with the brightest minds in contemporary theology, vibrating with excitement and sharing groundbreaking ideas. This was the atmosphere at Sankofa Conference 2024, held in Legon, Ghana, where Pastors, Professors, Scientists, and Activists alike,...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 14, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
After an earlier draft of the Stocktake text drew criticism from climate advocates, leaders of small island states, and others, negotiators went back to the drawing board, delaying the official end of COP28. After about twenty-four hours of tense negotiations, another...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 9, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
In a twist pulled from the plot of a dystopian movie, news broke that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, known as OPEC, had distributed a letter instructing its member states to vote against any attempt to limit the production and use of fossil fuels...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 3, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
At COP28 Sunday morning, former Vice President Al Gore told us about a new scientific tool, Climate TRACE, which promises to improve the way we measure and understand greenhouse gas emissions around the world. This means a better understanding of the source of GHG...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 2, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, COP28, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
The Global Stock Take (GST) is the process called for in the 2015 Paris Agreement in which each party assesses the progress it has made toward its emissions reduction and adaptation goals. The first GST is happening this year at COP28. The preliminary report of the...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 1, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
For a system as complex as the earth’s climate, small changes in one part of the system can lead to big changes in another part. That means the relationship between the global temperature and the climate change impacts we know about isn’t linear. And that means that...
