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The Ocean May Be a Side-Event At COP26, But Its Influence On the Climate is Not (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
In case you forgot, ECO wants to remind you: the ocean, covering 70 per cent of our planet’s surface, drives global weather systems and the climate, and is the world’s largest long-term store of biological carbon. It is sucking up 20 to 30 per cent of global emissions and absorbing over 90 per cent of […]
The Presidency’s Lonely Dialogue (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
ECO was awaiting yesterday’s Open Dialogue with excitement. After all, this is a key event to “enable admitted NGO constituencies to have an open dialogue with Parties” as mandated in (FCCC/SBI/2017/7). However, after arriving ECO had to look in the dictionary to make sure that dialogue indeed means the kind of conversation that is carried […]
India Presents: The Sustainable Development Mechanism To Drive Ambition (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
India Presents: The Sustainable Development Mechanism To Drive Ambition India, what happened to your “cooperative and constructive” engagement on Article 6? ECO hasn’t seen much of that lately, and was particularly struck by your comments yesterday. It’s as if you carefully read all of our previous articles and decided to promote the exact opposite of […]
Koronivia family: Serving An Empty Pot After All These Years of Cooking? (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
The Koronivia family has gathered many times in the last years, in person and online. Through nearly a dozen workshops we have spent time together sharing recipes, listening to experts ranging from smallholder farmers to IPCC scientists, and cooking up real solutions to feed the world and cool the planet. We’re so close to serving […]
Lobbyists, Bartenders and First Ladies: Meet Brazil’s Monster Delegation (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
If you’re squeezing through the corridors of COP26 or eternally queuing in the rain to get in (“come prepared with appropriate gear”), odds are that you’ve heard a lot of Portuguese these days. In fact, Brazil has the biggest national delegation in Glasgow: a stunning 479 people. That’s roughly twice as much as the host […]
The Kids Will Be Alright (if we’re not lost and damaged by COP26) (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
This ECO article is directed at decision-makers at COP26. It has been co-created this week by 60 young people from all over the world, to make a unified call for climate justice. Most of us didn’t grow up speaking English and we had not met each other before. Yet in just four hours, we listened […]
Fossil of the Day (ECO 5, COP26)
5 Nov 2021
The Polish Government awarded Fossil of the Day for walking a very crooked lineIt appears that the Polish government isn’t exactly telling the truth about their pledge to quit coal. Now if you’re sitting comfortably we’ll begin this sorry tale of coal addiction: On the 3rd of November, as part of an international agreement, Poland, […]
Loss and damage finance: Code Red to G7 and G20 countries (ECO 4, COP26)
4 Nov 2021
ECO still gets goosebumps listening over and over to Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s powerful intervention on Monday: “Failure to provide the critical finance, and that of loss and damage is measured, my friends, in lives and livelihoods in our communities. This is immoral and it is unjust”. She was not the only […]
Promising Movement On Human Rights – It’s Time For Everyone To Jump On Board (ECO 4, COP26)
4 Nov 2021
ECO loves to be pleasantly surprised. So yesterday was a winner. As discussions started on Article 6.2, we were pleasantly surprised to hear so much seeming support for the inclusion of human rights language in the text! It was great to hear so many Parties including AILAC, EIG, LDCs, LMDC, the EU, Australia, New Zealand, […]
Koronivia: Back To The Food-ture! (ECO 4, COP26)
4 Nov 2021
You’ll remember the adventures of Marty McFly travelling back in time. (Yes, ECO is talking about movies – long before Netflix took over our lives.) You’ll remember him struggling to return to his life and trying to fix the problems he had caused in the past. Well, at Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA), like […]