The WordPress.com stats helper-monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for our blog. Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far, we have much more to come – stay tuned! Love, your Climate Students. :] Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2015….
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The silly side of COP21
From the big protests, to the major negotiations, long-nights readings text and long days organizing, discussing and debating all things climate change, there was a LOT of work (and exhaustion) going on at COP21! But… that’s not quite the whole story. We, like everyone else at the COP, wear more than just one “hat” in…
COP21 – A different kind of summary
COP 21 is over… So that’s it, we did it, right? We have, for the first time, a global agreement on climate change, binding in some respects, not in others, but with an ambitious target of keeping warming to 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. We have the agreement, yes, but there’s so much more to…
A place for all generations
A once in a lifetime opportunity – to create a global agreement on climate change… This statement, this vision, has been achieved, at least to some degree, at the conclusion of the 21st Conference of the Parties. The true work begins the day after this agreement, however, as the challenge and urgency of implementation, beckons….
The Business of COP-21
On the night of December 11, 2015, during the final drafting of the COP21 climate change agreement in Paris, France, I sat down and tried to capture my thoughts from Hall No. 6 at Le Bourget, where the world had descended in an attempt to save the planet from slipping in to an irreversible destructive mode…
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