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Let’s Make ‘Energy Day’ Efficient, Just and Renewable (ECO 4, COP26)
4 Nov 2021
Today is Energy Day at COP26, and ECO is expecting to see that the ‘fossil fuels’ elephant in the climate room will be eclipsed by renewables all day long. For ECO, ‘Energy Day’ means one thing: a full transition to sustainable renewables. This means not only increasing the renewable energy supply but also thinking about […]
Fossil of the Day (ECO 4, COP26)
4 Nov 2021
So the 4th of November is energy day at COP26 but is that positive or negative energy – you decide… The First Fossil of the Day Award goes to the United States of America (USA). United States President Joe Biden, supported by the UK Government and others, launched the new ‘AIM for Climate’ (AIM4C) initiative […]
Roll Up Your Sleeves And Get Transparency Negotiations Over The Line! (ECO 3, COP26)
3 Nov 2021
World leaders came to Glasgow to kick off COP26 – a COP that needs to begin the decisive decade for climate action; a COP that must conclude with clear responses to the devastating messages from the recent IPCC report, the UNEP Gap report, the UNFCCC Synthesis report, the IEA 2050 scenario. These reports all clearly […]
[Article 6] (ECO 3, COP26)
3 Nov 2021
[Hooray we have a new Article 6 text, and it’s the feast of the [brackets][options] again. It’s [nearly] all there: from the most ambitious to the [ridiculous][scary]. ECO‘s jaw dropped in happy amazement when a search for the words “Human Rights” and “Rights of Indigenous Peoples” didn’t come up blank, but reality hit again when […]
Who’s Afraid Of The Global Stocktake? (ECO 3, COP26)
3 Nov 2021
Over the past two days, world leader after world leader took to the podium to boast about their climate action. Many spoke about the urgent need for greater action this decade to keep 1.5°C alive. Yet few of them pointed to ambition’s twin sibling – accountability. COP26 is a crucial moment to hold world […]
Today´s list of Fossil Award winners is as long as the queues at COP. (ECO 3, COP26)
3 Nov 2021
1st Fossil of the Day Award goes to Norway. Norway likes to play the climate champion but behind closed doors, new prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre is gaining a reputation as a fossil fuel cheerleader. The Labour leader, who’s only been in charge for a few weeks, has, apparently, boasted to media that “Norwegian gas […]
It’s Not Just Bolivia Who Wants Non-Market Approaches. ECO Does Too! (ECO 2, COP26)
2 Nov 2021
Negotiators here in Glasgow, and in Madrid, and in Katowice, and in Bonn, and in Marrakech have become obsessed with carbon markets. We get it. We know how attractive it is to pay others to do the work while someone else covers the costs. But in these dire circumstances, we need to sit down and […]
It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done (ECO 2, COP26)
2 Nov 2021
Yesterday, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon must have had Nelson Mandela’s words on her mind when she announced her country’s pledge to provide £1 million to respond to loss and damage. The money will come from the Scottish Government’s soon-to-be £6 million-a-year Climate Justice Fund, which to date has been focused on adaptation, and is […]
Hey Guilbeault! It’s Your Old Friend, ECO (ECO 2, COP26)
2 Nov 2021
Hey Steven, what’s up? Do you remember the long nights? The wordplay? ECO remembers you – drafting articles to fill our pages, calling out climate inaction, doing what you knew best: speaking truth to power. Oh man, we had fun! ECO is excited to see our old friend Steven Guilbeault is the newly appointed Environment […]
Will COP26 Decisions Recognise Nature’s Essential Role In Achieving 1.5 And a Resilient Future For All? (ECO 2, COP26)
2 Nov 2021
Six years after the Paris Agreement, Parties at COP26 must urgently agree on how to close the current mitigation gap to limit temperature rise to 1.5ºC. To keep the 1.5ºC goal in reach we need urgent, ambitious action BOTH to phase out fossil fuels as soon as possible AND to preserve and restore natural ecosystems which are a major […]