A tale of two COPs and one planetary problem
A worsening climate and the destruction of Nature are connected but treated separately at parallel global events that dialog very little with each other, hindering an effective response to the world’s polycrisis
An Amazonian look back at COP-28 and forward to Belém in 2025
The Dubai UN summit experience of Wenatoa Parakanã and Marina Silva shows the contradictions of Brazil, which plans to increase oil exploration while reducing deforestation. The gigantic conference in Dubai also raises the question of whether COP30 in Belém should go back to basics
COP28: Global heating destroys even preserved forests, says scientist
Pierre Friedlingstein, director of the Global Carbon Budget, a project that measures the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere each year, explains why forests and oceans are gradually losing their ability to continue saving life on the planet
For Lula to be a climate leader, he must phase out oil
At COP28, the Brazilian president has sent mixed messages by aligning with OPEC. If he really wants to tackle the growing threat of droughts and floods, he must set a clear fossil-free, pro-nature direction for the UN climate summit he will host in Belém in 2025
‘Drilling for oil in the Amazon is a contradiction in terms,’ says Petro at COP28
At a conference that looks like it is set in a theme park, Lula undermines the government’s environmental credibility by announcing that Brazil will join OPEC+. Colombian president says only a new, progressive generation can move Latin America away from fossil fuels
Climate COP: what is it and why should you care?
The UN Conference gathers countries to try to solve the most global of problems: the climate crisis
Amazonian Whodunnit
Humanity is to blame for the slow death of the rainforest, but we are not equally responsible. The fingerprints of carbon inequality are all over this crime scene
COP28 is a bubble of white men that activists and Indigenous and Black people are trying to break through
Fossil fuels are the challenge at this year’s climate conference, but the slow pace of negotiations has socioenvironmental and antiracist movements frustrated, as deaths due to the impacts of global heating mount across the planet
