COP24’s Hefty Impact on the Power Sector

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Two weeks of intense negotiations at the 24th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) in Katowice, Poland, last December culminated in

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Environmental activists demand rights at center of climate deal

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:22:04 +0000

CLIMATE ACTION Carrying signs calling for a stop to the use of coal and fossil fuels, as well as for greater climate action, protesters on Saturday march from Freedom Square to Spodek Arena, where the 24th Conference of the Parties is being held, in Katowice, Poland. —AFP

KATOWICE, Poland — The exclusion of human rights from the draft implementing guidelines of the Paris Agreement would put vulnerable sectors in more peril, rights experts and environmental campaigners have warned. As negotiators scrambled to wrap up the technical phase of the UN climate talks in its first week, civil society groups sounded the alarm […]

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Marchers demand aggressive action on climate change

Marchers demand aggressive action on climate change

Filipinos joined tens of thousands of people across the globe who took to the streets on Saturday to demand that governments step up action on global warming, even as UN climate talks tasked with breathing life into the Paris Agreement faltered.

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