5 years later - Happy Birthday, Paris Agreement? Published: 14 December 2020 Analysis December 12, 2020, will be the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement. This analysis provides important materials and pursues the questions: Where do we stand in dealing with the climate crisis? What false solutions must be avoided? And how can we push the urgently needed radical course change in pursuit of climate justice? By Lili Fuhr, Linda Schneider , Liane Schalatek and Lisa Tostado
A Process on the Brink of Collapse Confronts a World on the Move Published: 20 December 2019 Analysis The governments gathered in Madrid failed to embrace the urgent need for progress towards climate justice and higher ambitions. By Sebastien Duyck and Erika Lennon
Social unrest in Chile and its effects on the climate agenda and COP25 Published: 27 November 2019 Analysis Hosting COP 25 in Chile would have been an excellent chance to visualize the continent’s environmental problems and improve the space for negotiations. Now, Latin American civil society is making an effort to make their voices heard in Madrid. By Ingrid Wehr, Sebastián Aynzúa and Javiera Valencia
Amid Climate Crisis, Will Governments Deliver Ambitious Climate Action in Madrid? Published: 22 November 2019 Background Against the backdrop of increasing climate destruction and mass mobilizations calling for climate leadership, COP-25 must deliver urgent, rights-based climate action. By Erika Lennon and Sebastien Duyck
‘How dare you?’: Pledges announced at the Climate Action Summit won’t do enough Published: 4 October 2019 Analysis “Climate Week” in New York has wrapped up. Here Peter Riggs of the Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA) analyzes some of the most significant commitments from last week’s Summit, with special emphasis on commitments coming out of the ‘Nature Based Solutions’ workstream. By Peter Riggs
High Expectations from ‘Nature Based Solutions’ during the Climate Action Summit Published: 18 September 2019 Background This one-day event in New York is intended to spur new commitments from countries, and greater overall ambition in achieving under-two-degree warming pathways. Peter Riggs, from the international network CLARA, tells how to evaluate the commitments. By Peter Riggs
Great expectations, low execution: The Katowice climate change conference COP 24 Published: 8 January 2019 Assessement The Katowice climate package brings minor progress, but COP 24 failed to deliver on the most fundamental issues such as raising ambition of national contributions, implementing human rights, and ensuring support for developing countries. By Don Lehr and Liane Schalatek
What's at stake for COP 24? Published: 27 November 2018 Briefing The Katowice UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Katowice from the 3rd till the 14th of December 2018. By Don Lehr
Katowice: A European coal capital goes green Published: 11 January 2018 Nowhere in the EU is smog more suffocating than in southern Poland. This year, the polluted Polish mining city Katowice will host the COP24 climate conference. Ahead of that, change is in the air — and on the ground. By Richard Fuchs
“We will not drown, we are here to fight”: An assessment of the Fiji COP 23 in Bonn Published: 23 November 2017 In depth analysis COP 23 was one COP in two zones: The Bula zone was the site of the official negotiations - with little relevance to what happens in the real world. The Bonn zone hosted dozens of civil society kiosks and hundreds of events searching for real solutions. By Lili Fuhr, Liane Schalatek and Don Lehr
