A Little More Climate Talk Could Produce a Lot More Action - Bloomberg
COP 28: A Little More Climate Talk Could Produce a Lot More Action - Bloomberg
A Little More Climate Talk Could Produce a Lot More Action
Better communication about the environmental crisis is essential to galvanizing support for doing more to reverse the trend.
The King would surely have been a climate-action champion.Photograph: Bettmann via Getty Images
World leaders and their negotiating teams are currently preparing for the 28th annual United Nations climate-change conference, due to start at the end of November in Dubai. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sucked into discussions and debates featuring plenty of acronyms, bureaucratic terms and semantic gymnastics: CCS; Article 6.4; phaseout vs phasedown. But the climate emergency is a case where a little more talk outside of negotiating rooms could help produce a lot more action.
Most folk don’t know what CCS — carbon capture and storage— is, don’t follow the deliberations of the Article 6.4 Supervisory Board, and remain blissfully ignorant of the difference between ameliorating or ending fossil-fuel emissions. Two reports in recent weeks suggest there’s more work to be done in explaining the climate crisis in language everyone can understand.
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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) produced a groundbreaking agreement to create a “loss and damage” fund to help developing nations cope with the impact of climate change.
But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.