(Bloomberg) -- For three decades, the United Nations has been holding an annual summit on the climate known as COP, which stands for Conference of the Parties. Delegates travel to a chosen city from ...
BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -An existential question hangs over this year's COP30 summit in Brazil: what are the annual U.N. climate negotiations really for? More than 30 years of talks on global action ...
With COP30 failing to agree on a fossil-fuel phase-out, states, cities, and regions emerge as the real engines of global ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is the Lead Consultant of STEM Spark Solutions. As global temperatures continue to rise and extreme weather events ...
As the sun set on the Amazon, the promise of a “people’s COP” faded with it. The latest UN climate summit – known as COP30, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belém – came with the usual geopolitics and ...
It’s the month of November, which means that the eyes of everyone working in climate will be turning to whichever city is hosting the annual UN Conference of Parties, or Cop, climate conference. This ...
The tourism industry will be officially recognized at COP29 on Wednesday. Industry leaders signed a climate accord in 2021 to make travel more sustainable, but the results so far are meager. By ...
It took Samoan activist Tunaimati’a Jacob Netzler three flights and a bus ride over the course of 24 hours to reach the big climate conference. The plan was to join nearly 200 other campaigners from ...
November 15 - As we start the second week of COP29, it's time for a hard look at the future of climate summits. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been, and continues to be, ...
The 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil fell far short of expectations and failed to provide adequate responses to the increased ...