by Bobby Watson | Dec 9, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
One of the interesting aspects of COP is its ability to put certain issues into perspective. Often US and Texas officials characterize migration as a foreign phenomenon, where political fragility or economic strife causes residents of the Global South to migrate to...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 5, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Latest Posts, Spotlight
There have been two big announcements about methane during COP28 in Dubai, UAE (see here for a detailed explanation of the climate impacts of methane emissions). First, a coalition of oil and gas producers announced at COP28 a pledge to stop methane leaks from...
by Bobby Watson | Dec 5, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, COP28, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Human Migration, Human Rights
It is day three of Texas Impact’s witness of COP28 in Dubai, UAE. As this is my second COP I am coming into the event with a bit more preparation and perspective, yet, once again I am struck by the intersectionality of the climate negotiations. COP continues to be the...
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...
