by Becca Edwards | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
Scientists are working to understand what caused Hurricane Otis, originally forecast to make landfall on the western coast of Mexico as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane, to explode in intensity overnight. Most forecast models missed this change, leaving...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 20, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP27, COP28, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts, Legislative
Scientists continue to sound the alarm that deadly climate change has arrived, and that the impacts will continue to worsen if we as a global community cannot find a way to stop emitting greenhouse gasses by producing and burning fossil fuels. This summer, the hottest...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 20, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, COP28, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future” opens with the story of an aid worker struggling to escape an extreme heatwave that knocks out the power grid and kills thousands of people unable to escape the heat. The book is fiction, but it is based on an...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
The Global Stocktake is a United Nations Framework Convention initiative in which each of the Parties to the Paris agreement submits an assessment of their current progress in addressing climate change. Parties are required to submit reports on progress toward meeting...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
The Global Stocktake is a United Nations Framework Convention initiative in which each of the Parties to the Paris agreement submits an assessment of their current progress in addressing climate change. Parties are required to submit reports on progress toward meeting...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Creation Care, Faith Leader Statements, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on climate, Laudate Deum, was released October 4. Laudate Deum serves as a follow-up to his earlier encyclical, Laudato Si. The timing of the release of this encyclical suggests that the Vatican hopes to influence the outcome of the...